Comment by croon

I'm generally an advocate for a robust safety-net such that people shouldn't be on their knees every month just to scrape by with food/housing/healthcare, and would love it if we reached Star Trek/The Culture levels of post-scarcity, but I'm simultaneously not convinced by this idea, but possibly from another angle.

1) I'm not sure I want Github to be the arbiter of FOSS resource distribution (See: Spotify and small artists).

2) A second order effect could be creating a reliance on it which enables a future rug pull once the current framework is eroded.

TL;DR: I wholly agree with your overall vision of the future, but not necessarily this step towards it.