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If guaranteed minimum income and universal healthcare were a thing, I think so many of my programmer colleagues would immediately take low-income sabbaticals to write high-quality good-ui users-first free and open source software that it would inspire tedious "how was it possible?!?" medium dot com thinkpieces for years and years
@datagrok I suspect that's part of the reason it won't happen. Big employers don't want to have to compete with that. They already hate how much open source people crank out while in school.