Seems interesting to me that every single Laravel conference seems to bring out the same set of predominantly white male speakers. who mostly now work for Laravel, who talk about their (often) paid products, which feed back into folks pushing more and more money towards corporate Laravel, and folks just lap it up.

I don't blame them for building their hugely succesful business. But no-one seems to question it or ask for any more. Am I missing something here?

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@robjmills @michael nope, not missing anything. The community is become more insular, and more focussed on money.
@emd @michael This is what intrigues me really. Why doesn't the community call this out? Is critical thinking about the community welcomed or is it just seen as negative vibes to be ignored?