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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by ceejayoz on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @10:34AM (#27118567)
The organization is substantially larger than just its paid employees.

https://babeljs.io/team

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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by thrdbndndn on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @10:41AM (#27118649)
I'm sorry but how does this not sound worse?

"My job is to manage a team of employees who code." vs "my job is to manage a team of unpaid volunteers who code, while I earn a proper salary".

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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by ceejayoz on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @10:45AM (#27118689)
Managing volunteers is still real work - sometimes more so. It's hardly uncommon for non-profits to have paid staff managing volunteers.
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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by thrdbndndn on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:00AM (#27118879)
I'm not doubting it's real work; just that why other people in the same team have to volunteer (or being underpaid in case of the other two employees), while a single person is paid "properly"?
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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by ceejayoz on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:01AM (#27118897)
The article answers this.

> In November 2019, after successfully paying Henry a salary for over a year, we expanded our goal to also support three additional maintainers: Jùnliàng, Kai, and Nicolò.

They started with one paid salary. Tried to expand that. Didn't get enough money to do so; now they're asking (fairly, IMO) for the community that treats them as critical infrastructure to pony up.

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