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this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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The Lemmy dev is making around 30k a year. Subtract taxes from that and he's making maybe 25k (at best).
They're very clearly extremely talented software engineers, and you're telling me $12 an hour is "good money"? That's not even above minimum wage in many US states! Do you have any idea how much software engineers make?
Doesn't have to be the only thing you do. Where do you think FOSS software comes from?
People working for free, very rarely company sponsorship, or businesses making open source software.