> I seem to be on a website where nobody can picture doing anything without taking money from someone else. And by the way, I'm not remotely capitalist, but I

> I seem to be on a website where nobody can picture doing anything without taking money from someone else. And by the way, I'm not remotely capitalist, but I don't have the privilege of expecting the rest of the world to operate like I wish it would. In the US, unless you're independently wealthy, you've got to work to eat and feed your family, as I do, living together in a tiny apartment in a modestly priced city. Unless you're well-supported enough to spend a ton of time volunteering, which I am currently not, you've got to pull in money for what you do far more often than you give it away. Ignoring the realities of resource distribution in our society means you're more interested in patting yourself on the back for political and ethical purity than actually making a difference in people's lives. I've met a lot of people like that in political circles: their parents supported them and they were more interested in 'cred' and feeling cool than progress. After years of hoping volunteer-driven FOSS would revolutionize our world, I now realize that the preponderance of developers are way more interested in coding as an intellectual exercise than solving real people's problems with their code. Think I'm wrong? Try putting in a PR, or heck, even a comment on an issue proposing some way to make something easier for non-technical users, and if anybody even responds, it will be to flame it into outerspace while essentially saying "they should just RTFM," or reflexively bikeshed it into oblivion. But what about all of those amazing well-loved heavily used FOSS apps popular among non-technical users, you might ask? Blender? Signal? Tally up the ones that aren't grant-funded and managed by people tasked with making the biggest impact possible with the resources they've got. I'd be pretty surprised if any of them had the luxury of choosing their tech stack completely independent of the resources required to develop with it.