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There's a call to action here. Personal actions, like subbing to your favorite OSS dev / mastodon shitposter's Patreon (REMEMBER TO LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE) are nice, and you should absolutely do them, but as an economic sector we need to think bigger. Ask any economist—regardless of ideology—and they'll have a similar prescription: Externalities are market failures. negative externalities are addressed by taxes, but positive externalities are addressed by subsidies. We need subsidies for OSS.