It's a great way to make an easy $10-30k as a law firm too when you sue them. Especially when you have definitive statements like "we purposely don't care about a11y until we get sued for it."

Yeah but the CEOs said it, so it must be true.

If history is anything to go by, he'll likely lead YC within the decade.

I started doing actual politics rather than simply consuming it. It's more fun trust me.

Good, now start to question why such a system should continue to flourish and not be drowned violently in a bathtub.

Neoliberalism is a blight upon the world and it has only been around for 50ish years or so. It doesn't have to be this way.

It's okay, as the on-going damage continues Americans tend to be well armed enough to go on a few rampages here and there.

Americans are very good at talking tough like that, only to use their arms against innocent randos.

That's the point. Society suffers and continues to suffers while the elites run havoc.

Yeah why else would a person choose to join an AI company right before an IPO worth trillions, almost guaranteeing any employer there to capture a massive multi-generational wealth defining bag, what €ould ₿¢ th¢ ₹ea$on I wonder?

They are doing work, they're advocating for what they believe in. Consumers of FOSS deserve to have a voice too.

If you see complaining on forums and maintaining software as contributing the same kind of value, then oh boy do I have an enterprise-grade comment thread to sell you.

We'll have an LLM process the complains as proof of complaint and use that as the basis for our new cryptocurrency called CurmudgeonCoin and have an ICO. We'll make atto dollars!

I think the op was suggesting the contribute to FOSS rather than shaming people who have contributed greatly for not contributing more.

It's easy to advocate for what you believe in by posting comments on HN. It's harder to advocate for what you believe in by taking a low-paying job in a FOSS company, which they presumably didn't do.

If you're going to blame the consumer, might as well blame the person that chose to easily be exploited too.

What a terribly anti-human sentiment to have.

rooted in a long 30+ year reality. you can engineer the greatest, most secure, most accessible, most ____ thing but if it doesn’t sell those amazeballs engineers will be talking to their recruiters…

That's fine but I'll say as a human, that makes you a pretty crappy one. Only caring about monetary rewards is pathetic frankly, luckily the vast majority of humans don't agree with this sentiment and continue pushing the boundaries and our imaginations onward.

> vast majority of humans don't agree with this sentiment

citation needed

> and continue pushing the boundaries and our imaginations onward.

what percentage are doing it pro bono?

The purpose is to try to catch a sliver of all that fun money flying around in the current VC money.

I wanna give him a shot at explaining it