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RE: Zero Friction: perpetual-motion machines are quite valuable.

in LeoFinance4 years ago

"It's also possible to make money within a system that you've built because you are running arbitrage bots and know more about the system you've built than anyone else."
I hope nobody thinks "future career opportunity" when they hear that. Yuck! Professional digital leech?

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Hm yeah exactly. This is the disconnect between corporate programmers and open-source programmers. Corporate programmers need to capture value and worry about business models while open-source programmers can do whatever they want. Inevitably the bills come due, which is why crypto monetizing open source work is a miracle.