Low barriers-to-access for tooling absolutely democratize the creation of things with said tools.

But. It doesn’t meaningfully shift the underlying economic mechanics we live under, where people with access to capital can easily outcompete those without that access. It also erodes the relationship between the laboring class and the capital-deploying class (less interdependence), which has to have knock-on effects in terms of social cohesion and mobility.

I’m very much in favor of the tech being developed right now, but it’s hard to believe it’ll do anything but amplify the trends already present in our economy and culture.