It's also dismissive of a million different types of art and expression that don't have the benefit of this type of platform. Art and its value is always intertwined with artist. Is art diminished when it's known that the artist did it only to get paid?

I want universal basic income just so the most artistic and interesting of us can go and try cool innovative stuff without fear of death.

IMO open source thrived is also driven by the ZIRP era boom. Lots of engineers who made bank and lots of free time (basically self manifested UBI) were free to take risks and create things without worrying about the basics.

It is the most successful UBI experiment.

Now that the gravy train is over, I suspect open source projects will suffer and will increasingly be at the mercy of corporate funding or VCs.

I see more companies supporting FOSS. Maybe not through direct funding, but with code contributions. You do need a bit of both.

Artistic and interesting is highly subjective and definitely not universal, thus it is best handled by the market approach.

I mean what’s going on right now IS the market approach. And it’s why artists are revolting.