For the entire period where we have been finding more productive ways to produce things, we have been using the surplus we generate to do things that are further and further removed from the necessities of survival. Today, our surplus is large enough that we can pay large numbers of people to be baristas, yoga instructors, physical trainers, video directors, podcast producers, and livestreamers; and we should expect that as the surplus grows, people will find strange and interesting things to do with their lives.