Yes it's inevitably a pretty hard row to hoe. It's innate to capitalism that people without money as their ideological &/or motivational foundation are rarely g

Yes it's inevitably a pretty hard row to hoe. It's innate to capitalism that people without money as their ideological &/or motivational foundation are rarely going to be in positions of influence. So it will be hard to convince the denatured creatures that are positioned as real influencers to expend their precioussss where they don't need to. And they don't need to in this case. The bright side is that our world is not (yet) entirely comprised of the morally eviscerated, so, as you say, money for many widely useful things will have to come from 'the developers themselves'. It may not form a sustainable business model, but the temporary expedient is better than nothing.