It's not about "getting paid for labour" It's the attitude and environment a whole generation of devs is brought up in. In the olden days, if you encountered a

It's not about "getting paid for labour" It's the attitude and environment a whole generation of devs is brought up in. In the olden days, if you encountered a problem and had an idea how to solve it, you sat down and hacked a solution. No matter at work or in the evening at home. You had fun doing it, it improved your life, you open sourced it to share it with the community with the goal of having other people help you improve it or even helping your peers. That's how most of the small tools in the GNU toolchain were created as well as even Linux etc. And many of them live on today even as the original maintainers left or didn't keep improving by way of forks. Today, if somebody has such an idea, they sit down make a MVP, find a cofounder, apply for YC, move to the valley, wonder about seed funding and product/market fit of their SaaS. And hope for getting acquired for big money. And most don't, they just fail and die. It's about money first and making it big.