&gt; The pros and cons need to be evaluated on a case by case basis.<p>Utilitarianism? Watch it quickly spiral into a shit show.<p>These same concerns and arguments are nothing new. People have been bemoaning the evils of open-source and it&#x27;s socialist ways as unethical and selfish for years. And look how the software market still flourished. In many cases, directly off the backs of unpaid developers.<p>There&#x27;s a good chance we&#x27;re beyond a tipping point of ever again having enough work for the masses anyway. Look how many able-bodied folks the Feds hide under disability to keep the unemployment numbers low. And computing jobs will continue to vanish as software advances. You gonna tell a software company they can&#x27;t launch their accounting AI because of CPA job losses? You going to stop IBM from improving Watson because it might cost us some Javascriptkiddie jobs (don&#x27;t need as many web pages if Watson can do my work just by talking to it, or just having a brain-wave interface)?<p>Humanity will shrug and do what they did when cars replaced horse and buggy: Carry on.