[WesternMAGeek]

And those who are getting paid those great tech salaries, should be willing to send 100% of their paychecks to artists while they code for free.

Because . . . they're not creating value with their code. It took them years to learn how to code well. All that effort should be contributed to the world for free.

[rideontime]

Good point! The software engineers whose work was used to train Copilot, etc. should also be getting paid.

[boolemancer]

> It took them years to learn how to code well. All that effort should be contributed to the world for free.

I mean, there is a plethora of open source work that is actually contributed to the world for free, right?