Dave Lane 🇳🇿
It's interesting how some people deride those who sacrifice to 'do the right thing' and actually live up to their values as quaint and privileged, calling that behaviour a 'luxury'...
It's especially interesting when the people doing the deriding have put expedience over principle, exploiting people, and achieving material wealth in the process.
Perhaps it's echoes of the person's former but-largely-suppressed idealistic self lashing out.
Adrian Cochrane
@lightweight Seriously it really doesn't take that much privilege, that much luxury to do this... The supposed sacrifices are minor!
Dave Lane 🇳🇿
@alcinnz I think if a person's motivated by solving problems and doing the right thing, they can achieve a lot of good in the #FOSS world despite a huge 'opportunity cost' if they were to 'sell out'. If ones expectations of reward are modest, it doesn't feel like much of a sacrifice, and, in hindsight, it doesn't seem so bad... but it's really going against the grain from the perspective of those who're motivated by material wealth.
Adrian Cochrane
@lightweight Yeah, thinking from a purely financial perspective is a problem. And many feel they don't have any other choice, which would be where the "privilege" allegations come from!
I wish UBI was enough of a thing that it's easier to check out of capitalism...
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