On a personal note: I find that not even FOSS developers like me are spared from this.
Interesting. Two things come to mind immediately:
- Every has the tools to do it now. They carry them in their pocket .
- Social media means it’s much widely understood that self promotion frequently trumps talent
But hey, this is era where everyone is “CEO / Founder / Entrepreneur “ the moment they online, so I suppose it’s to be expected.
While you might write a few hundred lines of code and publish it, because it was fun to write and might help other people, the next guy is going to try leverage that into his start up so he can larp at being CEO.
Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 9 months ago
This essentially boils down to big business wanting all the reward without any of the risk - they've turned artists into their own self-promoters so even when artists are new, they already have a stable audience to sell to, at the expense of the artist of course