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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:
@WeirdWriter it took me a while to realize this myself but these kinds of people don't get that money for the thing they made, they get that money for the people they know (and the privilege embedded in their identity) and the 'invention' is just a fig leaf for public communication.
it also explained a lot about why I was always having trouble finding even the most minimal amount of funding for my open-source projects even though people one degree removed from me were getting bags of money; I was talking about ethics and they weren't.