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Re:The Cost of Developers by myWindoonn on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:59AM (#17237612)
You're super-close. Money is the "bad guy". It might not appear to have agency or autonomy, but that is because humans are not good at perceiving intangible power structures.

In other words, why aren't we saying this:

>Money is the bad guy, because its presence, uneven distribution, cult of worshipers, fungibility, and inherent ties to social power structures are unhealthy influences on the founders of Github

Re:The Cost of Developers by pm90 on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:54AM (#17238859)
I feel like I should post Francisco D'Anconia's Money speech here....

Money by itself isn't the "bad guy"; its a store of value. Like Technology it can be used for good or bad. We have structured our society to reward greed with unbelievable wealth. Like how can someone spend billions of dollars of their wealth? What is the need for someone to own all that wealth? And yet we all take that as given and aspire to it.

Re:The Cost of Developers by jchrisa on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:47AM (#17238795)
Beyond money, it's the logic of commoditization that is the bad guy.