The point is to survive and care for your family.
In a free market economy, you get from the butcher the meat only if you can give the butcher something in return. It might be cleaning the store, or throwing out the smelly bloody stuff out.
It's not pretty, but life is not pretty.
It is great to find a way to swap for other's needs what you're good at and enjoy, and sometimes it's possible.
However, since you need to solve another's person problem to barter with from something, it's by default not something you like, but something the other person needs. And this frequently is not what you would like to do at the moment.
So basically, this is life, sometimes we can write beautiful code, sometimes we need to fix a messy code our client uses every day.
And sometime we don't have the pleasure to work on the computer at all, because AI took our job away, and we end up cleaning the store.
Cool, "Life is getting worse, shut up and deal. Altman needs his returns."
Got it.
Dude, it's not Altman, it's the real world.
If you can do something for your client, then you get to eat what you both voluntary agreed the deal is worth.
Does a plumber work for Altman, or for himself? Why this need to have a boss and not live by the direct fruits of your own labor?
Ah, my bad -- "Suck it up, shits getting worse for everyone because of what this industry is doing. The future sucks because of us, get used to it."