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The median salary in the US is a quarter of that.

It’s not luxury yacht money, but calling it “peanuts” is ridiculous.



Most folk in the US are on poverty wages, one surprise bill away from bankruptcy or homelessness; we shouldn’t expect OSS maintainers to fall on the sword and rely on inter generational wealth or live in poverty when their colleagues, using their software, at big companies are making (what used to be considered) middle class wages.




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