Making humanity’s current lives worse to fund some theoretical future good (enriching himself in the process) is some highly impressive rationalisation work.
Maybe devs are a bad example, so replace them with “retail workers” in your statement if it helps.
Is “put out of work” a good thing with no practical limits?
I think the EA movement has been broadly skeptical towards Sam for a while -- my understanding is that Anthropic was founded by EAs who used to work at OpenAI and decided they didn't trust Sam.
Note that this clause would describe any government funded research for example.