The person creating FOSS object that other people find so highly-valuable they voluntarily pay for it is performing at least as much a trade as the person worki

The person creating FOSS object that other people find so highly-valuable they voluntarily pay for it is performing at least as much a trade as the person working a regular job for pay. It is not right to characterise that form of making a living as being handed anything. To achieve that is hard work and just as much a form of trade. The voluntary nature of payments for the objects implies they are more valued by others than ordinary trade where payments are mandatory and creators can "coast" with lower quality products. Arguably the person doing a regular job for pay is being handed more, as almost anyone can work a basic job for pay and gets the fruits of everyone else's labour. It's almost a freebie in modern society: Do some work get vastly more of what you need for a good life given to you while you produce maybe 1% of it yourself. From this perspective, a job is 99% handout from the collective to you, 1% contribution from you to the collective.