>If I am eating a delicious meal but the people preparing it had a miserable time, or it was prepared entirely by robots controlled by nefarious people using the profits to harm society, I don’t want it.
So much infrastructure is built by people having a less than good time.
An Engineer might get the jollies designing a bridge, but the workers who work on it dont.
The goal is to give lots of people happiness from not having to drive 100km out of their way.
If we solve a lot of problems for a lot of people and all it costs is the happiness of a few software engineers, well I am not convinced they were happy to begin with. Fund it.
So much infrastructure is built by people having a less than good time.
An Engineer might get the jollies designing a bridge, but the workers who work on it dont.
The goal is to give lots of people happiness from not having to drive 100km out of their way.
If we solve a lot of problems for a lot of people and all it costs is the happiness of a few software engineers, well I am not convinced they were happy to begin with. Fund it.