Comment by criddell
2 years ago
I wonder if the promise of a couple hundred bucks would really be all that motivating at 11:43 pm, with your new baby sleeping nearby, after a full day working at your software engineering job?
You have a new son and a partner that need a lot of you right now. Those PRs and bug reports can wait. The time you have all to yourself right now is extraordinarily rare. Use it for you.
That said, I do agree with the premise of the post.
Given the current state of birth rates is that even a normal state for most developers how many developers have children or even desire children
Probably a majority. There are some that have no kids, but birth rates are around 2 in the US, and 1.5 in europe. Some people have multiple kids, so we can't do math, but on average everyone has a kid anyway.
Not RMS!
http://www.art.net/studios/hackers/hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-d...
RMS does desire children, just not in that particular way.