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by jraph 909 days ago
The tragedy is that building such software should be actually very easy and incentivized, since it brings so much benefit to society. But it's not incentivized, often not easily economically viable because of the way the economic system works.
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> since it brings so much benefit to society

if it brought benefit to society (at large), why doesn't said society pay for the benefit?

Why isn't there an opensource funding model from society, except for trivial donations that don't move the needle?