Like, I don’t think it’s right to spend thousands of lives and decades of time of slave-labor building the Great Pyramids, but it’s absolutely a Wonder, and nobody denies this.
This library project is absolutely a Wonder, however right or wrong you might ultimately believe it to be, and as the poster said, it has been attempted many times and never come anywhere close to this effort.
The next book never written could have been your favorite book. Or game or movie or show or entertainer or content creator. With zero substitutes.
“I don’t care about future things because someone already was paid for making content that I can enjoy today” seems like a basic logical error.
Until then we will have to work, allocate resources and carry on as normal.
The real fun in my life began when I learned that this is a belief and not an immovable law.
Maybe you have some junk counterargument that creative people will work for free as well as for material goods. Or who cares about the future, let's distribute what we have now. If you think creative people will work for free just for the joy of creating, then you've never worked on the last 20% of a project which is often not that joyful.