Yeah that's what I meant. That many people are perfectly happy turning their brain off if they know they'll still get what they want. Having worked in retail myself I've seen the transition happen in front of me.

It's something way older than Ai but it only has made it more pronounced because unlike retail workers the lying machine doesn't take breaks or close for the day

The brain is a muscle that needs to be worked to not atrophy. Studies of the mapping based center of the brain have shown terrible signs of degrowth since people stopped just learning how to map out their way around and started just relying on phones to do everything.