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[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Oh no, people want to be paid for their work, what a horror

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

People want the means to survive, grow and live in comfort. Just because we live in a capitalist dystopia does not mean the current requirement to live is what we want.

If you have all of those and somehow cant find a passion that creates value i rather have you sit at home and do nothing because i have no expectation the work will be of any quality.

Of course you wouldn’t sit at home and do nothing because that would be boring and people with the means to be mentally and physically healthy expect more of themselves.

Point to the “dirty” jobs like swiping the streets and i’ll point to the volunteers doing a much better job keeping things clean then the career people. Passion and the inherent desire to make things better is everything.

All the important cyber security stuff is build on free software nowadays, because it is superior software in every possible way you can measure.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

people want to be paid for their work

There's multiple flavors of this, unfortunately.

Love to contribute money to a project I support.

Hate to have my favorite software suite acquired by a Big Tech company that pays some oversees software sweatshop to shove pop-ups in my face trying to sell me glitter icons.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah but you don't contribute tens of thousands every year so if you're one of 3 contributors on a project so big it takes 100 hours of work a week to develop and maintain, that's not enough. The sad part is nearly nobody donates. And those who do, often do it one-off, not monthly. I'm guilty too. Most 100% unmonetized FOSS projects just don't have a stable revenue stream and to make it worse, the users can be real assholes, hounding the devs to work more or put someone else in charge to accept PRs quicker, etc.

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