alt Hacker News> The ability to create software accelerates technological progress, which has direct and indirect benefits for everyone.
It has benefits for people with enough leverage (money and formerly labour) to obtain those benefits.
> It is true that competition could have short-term negative effect on people who sustain themselves by creating software, though.
I'm guessing that even if the unlikeliest of all unlikely things does happen and we all live off of some UBI some day, the short-term negative effects won't be "short-term" in the context of a human life.
> It has benefits for people with enough leverage (money and formerly labour) to obtain those benefits.
That's pretty much everyone. Even poor people benefit from technological progress.
> I'm guessing that even if the unlikeliest of all unlikely things does happen and we all live off of some UBI some day, the short-term negative effects won't be "short-term" in the context of a human life.
That depends on the pace of technological acceleration. It could be just a few years, or a decade. Which is why I am a pedal-to-the-metal accelerationist. The quicker we get through the short-term negative/turbulent phase towards the long-term positive phase, the better for me. If reversing is not possible, then going quicker is actually better than going slower. Let's get this shit over with.