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Most people can't afford to do effectively anything other than go to work and flop on the couch.

I don't think that's a problem for FOSS, it's a problem (if you call it such) of the economic system that we live under.

Generally the only realistic answer to that for most people at an individual level is to focus on financial security so that you don't have to care about that sort of fluff.

Most people can't. That's how our world works. In the general case creatives earn effectively nothing and only a few blockbuster individuals 'make it', regardless of the field; and usually they have to go proprietary to some extent.



> Most people can't afford to do effectively anything other than go to work and flop on the couch.

You're definitely right about this for folks who are barely scraping by, working multiple jobs, etc.

But for folks in IT, taking the time to read and comment on HN... we make the time for what we choose to make the time for.




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