The idea that you just mark your work as MIT/GPL/CC0 may have made open source more popular, but it also ruins lives when that thing you worked on for years and

The idea that you just mark your work as MIT/GPL/CC0 may have made open source more popular, but it also ruins lives when that thing you worked on for years and never made you anything makes a random drive-by asshole more than your annual salary. [Citation Needed] (and a couple of questions) 1. How has this ruined someone's life? That mechanism isn't easy for me to see. 2. If the license allowed for it, why should any one see something wrong there? 3. Aren't you putting short shrift on the effort it takes to productize something?