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>> I can't explain why an engineer, though well paid, is making .01% of the CEO's salary, nor can I explain why an engineer doing the same work but in the Philippines is making 40% of the salary of the one in the USA.

That's economics 101 and not the problem of a particular profession

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Fantastic post. Your logic is a perfectly hermetic circle.

I'm sure the OP can competently explain all of these things. What they can't do is justify them, or reconcile them with the principles that their society has instilled in them.

Sure but it makes it a lot harder to figure out how much someone "deserves" for writing a FOSS project.

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