Came to say “culture”. This is the thing most average Americans struggle with. We’ve had capitalism drilled into us from birth. Want something better? Pay more. Full stop.

Somehow we miss there is so much more to being a society than just transactional interactions. Not that the open source community doesn’t have its problems but it fundamentally is approached differently. With no profit motive why would you spend a single minute of your precious time doing anything for another person, especially a stranger?

That is at the heart of it, but you can decompose it into leadership (or a lack of it), misaligned incentives, intercompany politics, atrophying innovation, and on and on with the corpo buzzwords.