As an open source developer, I fucking wish. Some devs do a bit of work paid by big corporations, but most do not. Others have patreons and such, but rarely make much.
Most of us do it because we want to do our part to contribute to something bigger than ourselves, and because we benefit from the work of others and want to give back.
Well yeah, but still, the founders of wikipedia paid themselves a wage. Open Source has lots of jobs attached to it, firefighter is also available as full time paid job - yes there is a shit ton of free labor work being done there, but there’s also the opportunity to work in that space professionally.
Sure, but the point of this post is that people will gladly do free labor and innovate without any expectation of monetary compensation, disproving the myth that people would be unproductive and no innovation would occur without the profit motive. People are productive and innovate for many reasons and will continue to do so even after we abolish capitalism.
Well all of those spaces actually pay a wage too.
And yet there are still people who those strings completely for free.
As an open source developer, I fucking wish. Some devs do a bit of work paid by big corporations, but most do not. Others have patreons and such, but rarely make much.
Most of us do it because we want to do our part to contribute to something bigger than ourselves, and because we benefit from the work of others and want to give back.
Well yeah, but still, the founders of wikipedia paid themselves a wage. Open Source has lots of jobs attached to it, firefighter is also available as full time paid job - yes there is a shit ton of free labor work being done there, but there’s also the opportunity to work in that space professionally.
Sure, but the point of this post is that people will gladly do free labor and innovate without any expectation of monetary compensation, disproving the myth that people would be unproductive and no innovation would occur without the profit motive. People are productive and innovate for many reasons and will continue to do so even after we abolish capitalism.
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