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Normal people already can't have a family or pay for medical care. I can't fault anyone for wanting to code open source in order to barely survive, versus working several precariat jobs to survive and having no time to think.

My biggest luxury isn't money, but time and freedom from commercial pressures on my work. That's a quality-of-life issue making my subsistence WAY better than I'd experience working other subsistence jobs.



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