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Money Isn't Going to Solve the Burnout Problem
(blogs.gentoo.org)
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Michał addresses his problems with relying on donations later on in the post. Dayjobs are the main source of burnout but devs need it to survive. It's very difficult for a FOSS project to get enough consistent funding to pay a liveable wage for even one dev without compromising on some aspects to gain funding. And even if they do, the FOSS work now becomes the dayjob and becomes a source of burnout. Ontop of this, donations are extremely unstable and there's no guarantee a project will be able to pay a dev enough every year.
So in other words, burnout is absolutely not the problem, capitalism is.
My thoughts exactly