There's a big lesson for Europe there, everyone super productive and able to move to the US does so at the first opportunity.

The issue is you need verifiable rewards for that (and a good environment set-up), and it's hard to get rewards that cover everything humans want (security, simplicity, performance, readability, etc.)

Software patents would work as you describe, but not copyright.

And now they are getting what they wished for.

They literally want to use state violence to control what we can do on our own computers.

It's just a matter of time until they ban your account.

That said, you do notice it when the currency crashes.

The grift culture has changed that completely, now students face a lot of pressure to spam out PRs just to show they have contributed something.

But hopefully we can move towards that - standardised taxation (especially VAT and corporation tax would help massively here), the abolition of notaries, standardised requirements for document certification, and EU-wide digital ID so no need to fly in and sign in person.