Joshua BarrettoIt occurred to me today that the social value of the open-source work I do in my free time has probably been an order of magnitude more useful to the world than everything I've ever done as a paid employee. Needing to seek a wage almost certainly makes me a less productive member of society than I would otherwise be.
The number of boosts this is getting implies that a lot of folk feel similar, and that's sad.
Cassandrich@jsbarretto It's normal (but not okay). There's very little paid work that benefits humanity at large, and when there is, most often it also involves enclosing that benefit to limit who can have it (like with things like medical research).