> The problem isn't knowledge—it's incentives.

> When you're volunteering out of love in a market society, you're setting yourself up to be exploited.

I sound like a broken record but there's unifying causes to most issues I observe in the world.

None of the proposed solutions address the cause (and they can't of course): public scrutiny doesn't do anything if account creation is zero-effort; monetary penalization will kill the submissions entirely.

In a perfect world OSS maintainers would get paid properly. But, we've been doing this since the 90s, and all that's happened is OSS got deployed by private companies, concentrating the wealth and the economic benefits. When every hour is paid labour, you pick the AWS Kafka over spinning up your own cluster, or you run Linux in the cloud instead of your own metal. This will always keep happening so long as the incentives are what they are and survival hinges on capital. That people still put in their free time speaks to the beautiful nature of humans, but it's in spite of the current systems.