In a universe where the French government drops a perfect replacement for Notion and causes Notion to go out of business, this is still a net positive for society in the same way that things like Linux existing is a net positive for society.
One should not focus on the economic sphere as the be all and end all. We can just have improvements be distributed to everyone sometimes! We can just do good things through coordinated efforts and entirely sidestep the economy to get the good things.
All the people who were working on Notion now can go get some on the job training to learn to farm.
Why don't we just do this for everything? You can go read a bunch of political and economic philosophy about that.
One should not focus on the economic sphere as the be all and end all. We can just have improvements be distributed to everyone sometimes! We can just do good things through coordinated efforts and entirely sidestep the economy to get the good things.
All the people who were working on Notion now can go get some on the job training to learn to farm.
Why don't we just do this for everything? You can go read a bunch of political and economic philosophy about that.