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— XKCD Comic (@xkcdComic) August 17, 2020
The strange thing is how much of the internet and computing in general is built on essentially unpaid labor. Many important products have one maintainer and/or little financial support! If something happened to the project, large parts of the internet would break rather quickly.
It’s a terrible way to do things, but we’re good at that.