Being "artists" was just an example. I'm thinking of everything else that can't be automated (although virtually perhaps in the future everything, even art, will be automated). My point was that we simply need to find new ways of satisfying ourselves - whatever that is.
That isn't a creative economy though, it just requires that individuals have the propensity to pursue their own dreams.
I think UBI could be amazing for that. Take risks and try your dreams and you can always guarantee food and shelter at the end of the day. That would be revolutionary.
We have all these artists today, most of them creating art for arts sake, not for profit, yet many of them are toiling day in and out in banal pointless busywork to survive. You would have more artistic creation in that world, but its still a robot driven economy. Everyone just gets to pursue their dreams, profitable or not.
