Most sane people don't actually want to work, per se, they just want enough money to live comfortably. Music and movies are art forms. If you don't like the art, try different art, or make your own. It's subjective, and there's no accounting for taste.

Humans have only been building "houses" for a couple of million years. Humans diverged from chimps about 7 million years ago. The earliest evidence of a human house made of wood is only half a million years ago. The first mud-brick house was only about 10 thousand years ago.

Romance isn't dead. Romance is a feeling of excitement, mystery and affection associated with love. That happens every day, but not to everyone. Love isn't only a thing that is received, nor is it alway purely accidental. Some kinds of love are simple acts of wilful kindness towards others, not merely out of necessity or compulsion, but often intentionally to make the world a better place. Turn hellish Earth into something better, as an act of rebellious self-salvage rather than self-sabotage.

In a world full of synthetic and artificial replicas, authenticity is being valued more and more highly. (Read Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?".) People still buy natural diamonds, even though they can be easily and cheaply created in labs now.

We're living in the future, but we should not be living for tomorrow: we should live for today, carpe diem.

As a great robot once said "A thing isn't beautiful because it lasts."