Need free food, rent, healthcare, education, and housing first. As long as we still need money to pay for those things then there’ll always be too few experts with skills willing to work for free.

A las, capitalism wins again. I don’t like it, but it’s a fact.

Open source built the web

Yeah and how’s that working out, in the context of the subject of this thread. I don’t see any open-source communities competing with Google or Microsoft or Palantir.

Open source community always loses to capitalists, because people won’t do the work unless there’s money involved. Otherwise there would be open source alternatives that are better and more popular. What incentive do smart programmers have to help the open source community when they’re better off earning 180k+ per year programming for the financial sector? Especially in this ever increasingly oppressive economy. I’m sorry but unless leftists are donating billions to the open source community, it’s idealistic at best to depend on them.

“Is this meant to be your shield, my lord? A piece of paper?”

“Surely our models are more true than the laws of nature.”