This rising tide lifts the yachts while drowning the boatless. You really think that Pharma will benefit from quantum computing and pass those benefits off to society? This just further enables their stranglehold on the general public. Same for the IP laws you mentioned. Unless the technology is open sourced and accessible, the trickle down benefits you speak of are going to be small and take forever to reach. A competitive quantum market will only enable the rich to become richer.

I’d have better faith in this take if quantum computing was being discussed in a similar manner to the Covid vaccine: a necessity to be shared for the betterment of the human race. The fact that we’re already discussing an arms race of sorts tells me this will not be an altruistic development.