You can see this Capitalist End Game in the open source space, as well. It truly reeks of economic decay. Wealth is concentrated in so few hands that the projects are mostly being funded by large donations from a small handful of the super-rich or mega-rich (persons or corporations, such as non-profits). Subscriptions are collapsing, individual donations are fewer in number.
Nothing but funds.
That means this small handful of people have effectively formed a controlling board over all of the open-source projects, so that we normal users are regularly being delivered things we didn't want, while the features we clamour for go unimplemented. When we complained about this, they didn't change it. Instead, they gave us AI and told us to volunteer our own time to each build the solution all of us wanted, resulting in 1926 half-broken copies of the same damn thing, produced at 1926 times the expense that 1 working thing would have costed us.
You could have just built what we wanted with the money we already gave you, but you didn't.
Even when donations are collected from smaller actors, they almost only go to that same controlling board. Which already has so much money that they struggle to find anything to spend it on, as a market with a single consumer is inherently inefficient. Humans naturally tend to give their money to entities who already have lots of it, so this effect continues to double-down.
But, nevermind. Carry on. The stock market is up.
Laeserin
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