For the kind of developer who is implementing git in javascript in a month, $144k is definitely in the realm of market salary. Obviously this is more than most

For the kind of developer who is implementing git in javascript in a month, $144k is definitely in the realm of market salary. Obviously this is more than most people in the world make, but if you just reject it as greed outright you are ignoring the real problems of corruption and dirty money happening in the upper echelons of society. To me he's offering to do something, being up front about the cost, and you can take it or leave it. I see no moral justification to start prying into his expenses. You don't know how big his family is, or what debt he has, or how he spends his money, so who are you to judge him? If he makes this money in the private sector then I see absolutely nothing greedy about proposing that same salary on a kickstarter, but beyond that I don't see that it's any of your or my business. He's not enriching himself through arbitrage here, he's simply putting a price on honest work that has an outsize public benefit. There are so many real financial injustices in the world that I just don't understand what angle you're coming from here. Do you believe individuals just shouldn't be allowed to make more than a standard deviation above median income? Or is does it have something to do with an ideal that F/OSS should distance itself from real money? If you were offered a job for $150k would you turn it down because it feels like selling your soul to the devil?