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I'm a huge fan of open source (which, given my username and the fact that open source is basically socialist principles in practice should be no surprise), and

• vasco 4y ago
  > and it bums me out to no end that we haven't figured out how to keep the folks working on it fed, sheltered, and healthy. Is this true? Do you personally know anyone that actively contributes to meaningful open source projects that can't support themselves through a job? > I'd guess a whole lot more I'd guess we'd get a lot of very useless projects, many forks of each other to just slap a different logo on a UI, and the general shenanigans you see people doing when there's open source competitions with prizes for contributions. For some very prolific people, society probably would be better off paying them for work on it full time, say antirez, but that's not going to be a lot of people in the whole world.
  • krageon 4y ago
    If 100% of my work was on OSS, I would add probably 10x the value to everyone else's life than I bring at my job. I'm hardly alone in this - most jobs are useless. As such, it is logical for it to bum you out - if only the folks that are capable of making everyone's lives better could be able to do so while being fed, sheltered and cared for medically. It would make society as a whole better, even if it is just due to the fact that we would have to acknowledge that bullshit jobs are not worth more than actual human value.