His point is that the chomskys of the world will stop writing when they just get ripped off by ai, and the ai will also degrade in time as a result. So the bucket we all take from will vanish.
Yeah, I’m aware of the Idiocracy take. But, Idiocracy is just a movie and Atlas Shrugged is just a book.
I think we all underestimate, that in reality, there are many abstract motivators that will continue to fill that bucket (status, reputation, for example).
But for most of the world? Our contributions are minuscule compared to what we will take from the bucket.