They have not lived through the days that pirated software was common, as most folks would not have income to pay for every single piece of software on their computers.
They have grown up with disposable computing devices, where OEMs have gone back to pre-PC revolution, where to get an OS upgrade one would get a new computer, and all peripherals were external, USB ports replacing parallel ports, as means to get those margins pre-clone wars back, using software with microtransactions.
Additionally people have realised that FOOS without income doesn't scale, and we're back to Shareware by another name, with incentives to turn them into VC sponsored unicorns, something that we didn't have back in the day, getting some money to get by was already good enough.
After my generation is gone, so are all FOSS founders, and like every movent in human history, it will be replaced by something else.
That's basically a kind way of saying that they mock the crazy old guy who shakes his fists at the cloud, and mumbles something about Microsoft and Google.
While I know that's how things simply are, I imagine in current climate it'd put off a lot of people away from anything that resembles volunteering. "If you're good at something, never do it for free."
Boomers pulled up the ladder and now they're wondering why noone is climbing up.
I need to make sure I can pay off my debt before having a clear mind to focus on being a part of an effort bigger than myself.
