It makes me happy to create and maintain things. I hope others do so, too. Which allows me to use Linux. A generalization of this question would be "Why people

It makes me happy to create and maintain things. I hope others do so, too. Which allows me to use Linux. A generalization of this question would be "Why people do want improve things for humankind?". If you ask me our answers to economy are bad. Especially capitalism (greed) and communism (force) failed. Star Trek gives some clues about how to solve it properly. Without the need to gather “value points” hopefully we all would just do what is considered helpful. I would still program, but stuff which I consider more sensful. A doctor is probably still fighting cancer, minus paper works for insurances. Others foster plants. Some will clean water because people like clean water and they find it a fulfilling thing.