[cowpig]

> Right now my only source of income is the $15k/year I got by being one of the top 300 GitHub users globally. That puts me in the 99.9997th percentile of open source developers (based off GitHub's 100 million monthly active user count). What it means is that I'm uniquely able to convert your money into the largest amount of value for society. I want to start by using the money to buy myself a home in San Francisco, in a neighborhood where I can feel safe, so that I can have a bed, set up a real office, entertain guests, and take photographs. I want to travel around the world and experience the cosmopolitan lifestyle my project is named after, using only private aviation, so that I won't be molested or risk being detained each time I fly. I want to hire an elite team that can help me accomplish my social and technical goals, such as adding native support for my file format to every operating system.

The bit about "using only private aviation" and "hir[ing] an elite team" sound satirical at first, but then the next sentence sounds earnest, so I can't tell?

I looked up this person on wikipedia, so the "I want to live a cosmopolitan life and fly private" seems like something someone who was involved with occupy wall street would say sardonically, but I am not sure?

Regardless, this person's technical work seems incredible and I really hope we can find a way to support people who work independently and aren't obsessed with capturing the value they create in the US.

[brabel]

This is a bizarre post by a brilliant person. I am a fan of her technical skills and I actually enjoyed her previous writing about CosmopolitanC, Redbean, llamafile… I can’t imagine how she could have problem finding jobs she is happy with given her talent. But this post just doesn’t feel right, I would guess she is suffering from depression or something. If Justine reads this, your views seem to align well with Andrew Kelley (except the part about private aviation!), you could be a huge addition to the Zig Core team. Watch his interview with JetBrains to know more about his views on software and open source. I am an outsider, but just wanted to throw the idea out there, maybe someone can pull some strings and make it happen.

[nkrisc]

It reads very manic.