> In reality, if post-scarcity is possible, some people will be lucky enough to have the means to live that lifestyle while others will still by dying of hunger, exposure and preventable diseases.
By definition, that's not a post-scarcity world; and that's already today's world.
> It often ignores that some people are OK with having enough while others have a need to have more than others, no matter how much they already have.
Do you think that's genetic, or environmental? Either way, maybe it will have been trained out of the kids.
> it has also been used by people who actively enjoy hurting others, who have caused measurable harm
Taxes work the same way too. "The Good Place" explores these second-order and higher-order effects in a surprisingly nuanced fashion.
Control over the actions of others, you have not. Keep you from your work, let them not.
> What I want is a strongly pro-social license - you can use or build on top of my work only if you fulfill criteria I specify such as being a net social good
These are all things necessary in a society with scarcity. Will they be needed in a post-scarcity society that has presumably solved all disorder that has its roots in scarcity?
> With LLMs, I have stopped writing public code at all because the way I see it, it just makes people much richer than me even richer at a much faster rate than I can ever achieve myself.
Yes, the futility of our actions can be infuriating, disheartening, and debilitating. Comes to mind the story about the chap that was tossing washed-ashore starfish one by one. There were thousands. When asked why do this futile task - can't throw them all back- he answered as he threw the next ones: it matters to this one, it matters to this one, ...
Hopefully, your code helped someone. That's a good enough reason to do it.