Every damn time there’s an interesting article from a company in finance, team social justice comes out in the comments…

“What a waste of a good brain on working on ads/finance/crypto rather than working on a cure for cancer etc”

Their families (and taking a hit personally) have plowed how much money and effort in total from kindergarten all the way to graduating from an Ivy League, but these people keep saying they should instead “pursue something for the greater good” all without putting up their own to incentivise top talent away from big money. Urghhhh!

We have GitHub Sponsorships but last I heard the majority of “greater good” projects aren’t profitable enough that top contributes can work 24/7 on “socially benefitting projects” and so instead they are having to 9-5 for Lord Business.

Just as an example, important socially benefitting projects like F-Droid are eventually going to go into Archival Mode because there’s no incentive to make an alternative App Store flourish as downstream developers want their apps on the Big Evil app stores so that they can afford to eat.

Money talks and bullshit walks.

Next time someone says “what a waste of a brain”, respond with “how much money are you willing to contribute monthly to distribute to “top talent” so that they can “work on more important things”? Feel free to copy pasta my comment so that we can stamp out this holier than thou attitude