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allexsendev • today at 6:55 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

This has happened with most of the fields - volunteers do a lot of work, make their fields/areas good, raise interest, bring ppl into it which usually brings money then which usually brings money chasers who then usually "optimize" the hell out of every metric for maximum gains.

Great OS volunteers still exist today, but the ratio of genuine field lover to money chaser is absurd now.


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cowlevel • today at 7:18 AM

Goodhart's law: whatever you measure will improve. And the measurement is money extraction.