I think open source is an example of how any set of incentives cuts both ways, it is just prioritizing different things. Incentives are offsetting; things like

I think open source is an example of how any set of incentives cuts both ways, it is just prioritizing different things. Incentives are offsetting; things like wealth incentives are often valuable to encourage people to do important things they otherwise would have no incentivize to do in open source. For example, a well-known issue with open source data infrastructure is that it often has much lower performance and efficiency than equivalent proprietary software. There are many dis-incentives in the open source ecosystem to producing software that is highly performant and efficient, not the least of which is development complexity and sophistication level required to contribute. Open source developers do not pay the operational cost of wasteful data infrastructure but they do pay the cost of their time, and prioritize accordingly. Proprietary data infrastructure is explicitly motivated by wealth incentives to be highly efficient, which is why companies invest in it even though open source equivalents exists. The relative wastefulness of open source in terms of computing resources is increasingly perceived as bad for the environment, so it isn't just a money motivation. Incentives are a powerful thing and it is evident that open source lacks incentives to produce some important outcomes.