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by Kinrany 2029 days ago
Some people can afford to give away all of their output, so that's not a good signal.
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Wouldn't that make it a very good signal for "conspicuous consumption" purposes?

"I don't need to charge money at all for the software I produce" definitely seems like a Veblen-worthy signal to me, since it implies that the statement-maker is already rich.