Yesterday, there was a discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20174418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20174418) about most OSS being so underfin

Yesterday, there was a discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20174418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20174418) about most OSS being so underfinanced that the authors must be doing it because they are either very kind or very crazy. I was reminded of the David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, where he describes the testimony of a programmer, who is working on OSS in free time so that he could then cover it with duct tape during the day to make a living. That part of the essay just seemed very apt. Here, another parts of that essay seem also apt, those about how useless jobs get created in a bureaucracy. Is there something fundamental to these things, that we don't know how to deal with? Is it worse is better at play? That people are so damn good at adaptive innovation, that they will rather adapt than to address the root problem?