I was looking at Graphite Editor project and how the hell is 24k stars on GitHub translate to 600$ per month?
This is not the first open source project that I see with this problem.
Why the hell is no one supporting open source developers?
I mean… People like boobs.
Very few OF models earn anywhere close to that.
The average OF model gets $130 a month. The top 1% of OF models get $50k a year.
The ones you’re thinking of earning tens of thousands/millions a month are the top 0.1%
Yep, same with any kind of influencer or youtuber or anything close to that.
For every person you see or hear about making thousands or tens of thousands of dollars a month… there are a hundred thousand people making basically nothing.
… And also a lot of ‘influencer’ type people are just lying about everything, its all rentals, credit cards, and many of them don’t even know they need to file and pay taxes on income from content.
The algorithm just tends to only or mostly show you the most popular people… so you mostly only see the top 0.1% of people, but you see them all the time.
Its basically a casino + societal level gaslighting.
The more honest influencers who are quite popular will just straight up tell you they got lucky, randomly boosted by the algorithm at some point, and they were able to expand on that.
But without that luck, you more or less never get super popular, or it takes a solid decade of consistent effort.
FOSS is not as sexy as tits.
Speak for yourself.
Tits are a commodity. Apparently the money is in feet. A common enough kink to have a profitable user base and niche enough to be underserved/concentrated. Dudes like Tarantino have the money after all.
TIL.
A free market will not value all products the same.
This might be the dumbest question ever asked.
There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers
Teachers say this because they need stupid students to identify themselves.
In any other context, there are indeed stupid questions which when asked will identify the asker as an idiot.
There’s a huge amount of stupid questions. I know, because I ask them all the time.
There are no stupid questions, only inquisitive idiots.
Many, many questions are stupid. This post is certainly one of them
Yeah kinda sus this got upvoted so highly. Puritans?
Why??
You’re comparing the top 0.001% of OF models with “a lot of opensource developers”. Get your categories straight.
And the question gives off weird vibes, like “how come hard-working (male) devs make less than women just showing their tits?”It’s a constant question from right-wing men who don’t understand how the world works.
Someone should ask those right-wing men when was the last time they donated to an open source project.
What is the oldest profession?
Also, it’s a huge myth (marketing lie) that the average OF model is making any appreciable money.
About the graph:
Well, it’s a graph showing the bottom 50% of OF accounts. The horizontal axis is the monthly earnings in USD, and the vertical axis shows the frequency of people earning earning that amount.
Context is that it is a sampling of OnlyFans accounts.
You can see that the median OF creator is earning under $200 /month and the modal creator is earning $0 per month.
The context is in the fucking graph mate, it’s literally all there, you just need to learn reading comprehension
The source is directly from OF data, which is publicly shared every now and again
The average earnings per month on onlyfans is something like $3 a month, most people doing that are not making millions, those are outliers.
I would bet AVERAGE earnings for developers are the same or higher.
If you’re seriously asking that, then you need to actually look at the world and the people in it, and make more realistic expectations based on what you see. People pay significantly more time and money on what makes them feel good than what they know is good for them. It’s one of the most basic obvious truths of humanity.
Sure, some people focus enough on logic or have enough willpower to do what’s good for them, but when you get a huge group of people together, those individuals fade into the mindless crowd.
Humanity isn’t going to suddenly do what it needs to do simply because it’s necessary, no matter how much we might hope it will. Like a child who doesn’t want to eat their vegetables, humanity needs an authority figure to coerce it into doing what needs to be done, whether that be a governmental body, a revolutionary, or some other figure or organization. They simply operate on their most basic desires otherwise.
What if we mash them together? Streaming nude live FOSS coding with subscription fees and tips.
Only downside is that no one wants to see me do that so there’s not much of a market…
I have the perfect solution. HINT: “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
Solution: Start programming naked with programming socks.
Because the developers aren’t equivalent to OnlyFans models.
OnlyFans models are for-profit business owners using OnlyFans as infrastructure, not employees or volunteers.So you’d have to compare their profits with for-profit business owners using opensource software as infrastructure.
Examples of those are Red Hat, Canonical, Broadcom, Microsoft, Apple, etc.But aren’t they all running on open source infrastructure? Well, except for the ones who’ve undergone cosmetic surgery
Because I’m not jerkin it to Graphite Editor.
But if i want see a specific OF models big honkin bazookas, somebody has to pay them.
You could go join only fans. Show your assets. Let some old guy or girl leer at you. Maybe let him pay you for sex. Totally your right. Has to be better than being a dev right?
Point being look at the rational and objective responses here. For years there has been the industry of sex and some people make money some are taken advantage of. Have you ever watched free porn? Someone and their body were likely taken advantage of that and you benefitted. If the answer is yes then you have pretty much invalidated your own question.
You have the right to provide your services as a dev or displaying your body. Being sanctimonious about the $$$ involved is a shallow argument.
So your question is “why do people spend more money on sexual gratification than on being fair?”
I don’t even know where to start with that one, but the question suggests extreme naivety.
And/or extremist views
Yeah probably. Someone just responded to me with some incel bullshit and I doubt they’re alone.
I think it has more to do with how open source developers work considerably harder than onlyfans whores yet get paid significantly less, if they make any money at all.
Ah so we’ve come out and said the incel shit out loud. I appreciate the candor, even if it is absolutely disgusting.
What? It’s the truth.
Incels always do think they know the truth.
Can you tell us why it isn’t true instead of insulting me?
Maybe you can explain why sex workers are subhuman? How about that? Let’s see how many friends you win from expanding on this.
When did I say they are subhuman? If you can’t read then it’s understandable why you’re confused.
It’s obvious that you’ve already decided that you “know” what the person you’re arguing with means and think, and then you’re attacking that instead of recognising that you’ve misunderstood them.
for every OF model earning thousands there are thousands who get close to 0 there are open source projects which earn millions in non direct way
How does my Strawman I invented to make my point sound better that doesn’t even slightly reflect reality earn thousands and in some cases millions per month, but this perfect idealist saviour complex I’ve invented earn less than 1000$ per month?
OP, right now
