Indeed. The underlying economics (the harshness of no business model, i.e. no profit = wrong idea insofar as reality/markets won't have it) make it a very diffi

Indeed. The underlying economics (the harshness of no business model, i.e. no profit = wrong idea insofar as reality/markets won't have it) make it a very difficult proposition — sometimes I'm in awe at the fact that we could pull off "open source", that the idealism of that survived collision with reality long enough to demonstrate its value. The economy to me is a vast "optimization space", so I can only agree. It's the 'trap' of a local minima I suppose, wherein the friction of moving away to find another possible (but uncertain) minima (hopefully overall lower or more acceptable ethically) is too high. So you've indeed overoptimized your way into a local pit (e.g. the ad model now taking over the news like a virus, resulting in this new "hybrid" object sometimes called "informercial" or "infotainment"). It seems that only "disruption" (of a magnitude worthy of the name) gives enough momentum to escape the steepness of a local historical/economical minima. Unless you've got some new S-curve (which quite literally may represent the math surface of this "escape path"), history tells us we remain stuck and move in circles about the center of 'gravity' of this local minima. Dunno if that makes sense to you, pardon the loose physical analogies.