Comment by gchamonlive
18 hours ago
There is also a big difference between making money to live comfortably and make money to get filthy rich. Lots of people come to tech aiming for the second, so they won't make software so you can buy them a beer. They want to hit it big, and I think this is what smuggles perverse incentives in software development.
Why the hell would it be perverse to want to get rich from something you created?
Do you have some kind of right to other people's creative output now? This greed after what other people have seems to be completely boundless.
I don't think it is a crazy opinion to think the desire to be rich is morally troubling. It is a desire to consume more than your share of the world's resources.
I'm making no moral judgement here, what I'm saying is that this creates perverse incentives in software that produces enshitification and such. The incentives are perverse. Nobody is after anything you own, don't smuggle that assumption here please.