Luke

I worry that approach would increase feelings of entitlement from people who don’t understand the process and effort involved with development.

It systemizes the notion of “I paid you to do X, where is it?”, a perspective which some annoying people already have even without giving anyone money.

Additionally, how do you determine how much payment a feature is worth?

What if the community is split about the direction of a project, and there happens to be two “pay for high priority” demands that conflict with each other? Who gets their feature that they paid for?

I also think that the people actually working on a project should be the ones setting the direction and priorities for it, not whoever has a big enough purse. We don’t need to replicate corporate models that deny developer autonomy.

Humans also carry diseases and destroy the landscape and each other. By your logic, we shouldn’t care about anyone dying, or try to empathize with anything outside of ourselves. Seems like a sad perspective, IMO.

For what it’s worth, lanolin is not vegan, despite the pictured ad claiming it’s ethically sourced and implying that animals are not harmed. Lanolin is produced from wool, and if you care about such things, often a result of unpleasant (to say the least) farming conditions for sheep. Probably there are some sources that aren’t so bad, but apparently there are reports that wool industry practices are pretty horrific to the sheep. (Read more here and here if you like.)

On the positive side though, there are plant-based lanolin alternatives, including vegan nipple creams. I couldn’t find any source that weren’t also ads for a product, so I’ll leave the search up to whoever is interested in them.