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the more people's lives you are affecting in a positive sense the more likely it is you are making a very high income. the opposite arrow is not necessarily tr
by dnautics 5y ago
the more people's lives you are affecting in a positive sense the more likely it is you are making a very high income.
the opposite arrow is not necessarily true, but one wonders if there isn't a 'baby with the bathwater' effect with progressive taxation.
- tluyben2 5y agoAs OSS dev this very often not true for instance: there is a lot of OSS having a positive effect on a huge amount of people and yet the authors scraping by. Paying for OSS should be a tax write off aka charity. Would stimulate more people to just open source it all.
- dnautics 5y agoYou assume that the value in this case is created merely by its existence but software in a vacuum is worthless. The value in software is also created by orgs that choose to use the software, by distribution networks. It must be reduced to practice. As a software dev that can be a hard pill to swallow.