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 But how realistic is being well paid open-source contributor? One has to eat in the end 🤔 
 Linus Torvalds is a Millionaire. 
 True but Linus Torvalds is 1 in a Million success.
Bill Gates is a Billionaire. 
 Pele was also a very rich football player. Most of the time this doesn’t work well for the triers and they end up in extreme poverty and very depressed.

#bitcoin and crypto in general are also full of very ego-driven people due to the nature of money.

Software most of the time is fruitless without Uncle Sam help (aka VCs, jack and etc).

#nostr for example ignored all the triers at time of launch just to run a very centralized target for Google. So the #matrix team was throw out of the window just because jack had other friends.