We’re already there, it just looks different than what you describe. Food, shelter, and healthcare all require money in the US. Sure you have some free will, but does it ultimately matter? Are you really gonna go be a homesteader and live off the grid?

You have to work- sell your time, rent your brain and body out to whoever you can find to pay for it. You are unlikely to ever truly own the place you live. Either rent or long term mortgage, someone can come kick you out of your home if you don’t constantly prove your worth. You must pay for your food, even the basics. Without selling a part of your life, you don’t eat. In that case, how much of your life do you really own?

Beyond that, nobody chooses to get sick. Especially not so sick that they can no longer work. But of course, it happens. Are you valuable enough for medical care? Have you sold enough of your life to earn healthcare, even when you can’t work?

Do you, as a human resource, generate enough value that you will continue to be fueled, stored, and maintained?

WinBoat maybe? It’s technically a Windows VM so it works better than Wine for certain things. No idea how well it’ll worke with Minecraft though.

In terms of developing visual works, the difference is that AI is generally trained on images and videos that the companies have no license to. With CGI, it wasn’t like they were just taking a bunch of other people’s art, someone still had to do creative work.

It isn’t so much that they’re putting creatives out of work, but how they’re doing it. These AI models wouldn’t exist without art developed by humans.