I met an open source maintainer once working on a very popular tool everybody uses who was practically impoverished. From talking to him it became apparent that

I met an open source maintainer once working on a very popular tool everybody uses who was practically impoverished. From talking to him it became apparent that he was routinely being taken advantage of across all spheres of his life. It made me wonder how much valuable open source is powered, quietly, by people who are just used to being exploited.