I, the author of the linked article, see the appearance of ever more productive tools as allowing humanity to break through the lie: that much of the labour we perform is necessary and that labour at all is necessary. The concept of your status in society being tied to your job and the idea of full employment for all is what is holding us back to achieve personal and societal fulfillment.

I ask you this: is everyone contributing to a copyleft project ultimately just aiming for financial gain, or are there also true idealists who do it for the sake of doing it?

Doing things is one thing and earning money is another and we come closer and closer to decoupling those too.

Why not reap the benefits and free humanity from the yoke of labour once and for all? If one person does the work of ten (i.e., thanks to the loom, steam engine, or LLM), and we naively assume that the value created is that of ten workers, why can the remaining nine not share the harvest as well? Or, we could all work, just significantly less (a tenth each) and allow everyone to go to bed with a full belly.

No one can predict whether it will be business as usual or not, for anything. Not for the internet, the transistor or LLMs. But we should not hesitate and call out the thumb twiddling lie that is employment through economic coercion.