Art was the one thing no one thought could be replaced by machines. Everyone thought it would be the manual labor jobs that would go first. The machines taking over art and doing it BEFORE manual labor was something that caught everyone off guard, myself included.

How is making art not a real job? So far as I'm aware, most artists, even those that work by commission or whatnot, work 40+ hours a week and, if not employed by somebody else, pay for their own supplies.

I write this as somebody who goes into a cubicle and spends hours a day examining PDF's, filling out Excel sheets, verifying payments, etc.