No ones labor is worthless. Guys this is so retarded but I understand why tech people find this difficult.

Humanity runs off of romance. This is not sexual romantic love but rather the thrill of other human people.

An AI cannot provide this. This interaction has value. Technology frees us from having to deal with the mundane so we can deal with the exemplary.

Just go to a poorer country and see that it is not possible there. America is friggin awesome.

Why are there homeless people then?

Capital doesn't care about whether your work is "inherently valuable". That you think poor countries are somehow fundamentally different in this regard, exposed to the downsides of the market in a way that we here are not, is a defect of imagination.