I'd say this is less of a "dev" problem than a Twitter problem; it's just compounded in dev because open source maintainers (like Adam Wathan, creator of Tailwind CSS) don't make money directly from their tools.
So Adam (entitled or not) has to have cognitive dissonance everyday about "working for free" when he could be working for money.
While Cher has a good point that Adam's "fragile white male ego" (to paraphrase) meant he was "angrily tweeting" in a way that ended up negatively impacting a woman of color, she also discounts that without the motivation of people loving his project than he probably wouldn't do it.
Is that entitlement? Absolutely, because as a white-male-with-experience he can pull down 10-20% more (or 100% more) in salary than someone less privileged.
But it's also not particularly fair to Adam to suggest that his feelings are invalid, since he's made the best CSS framework in history.
The whole "mob response" & oppression of minorities is simply the natural consequence of tribalism on Twitter, see the January 6 riot on the US Capitol.
The moral is if Adam had stayed off Twitter and blankly ignored anyone suggesting he read the new "criticisms of Tailwind" article that Cher's a big fan of, then he never would have (accidentally, in my opinion) oppressed anyone.
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I'd say this is less of a "dev" problem than a Twitter problem; it's just compounded in dev because open source maintainers (like Adam Wathan, creator of Tailwind CSS) don't make money directly from their tools.
So Adam (entitled or not) has to have cognitive dissonance everyday about "working for free" when he could be working for money.
While Cher has a good point that Adam's "fragile white male ego" (to paraphrase) meant he was "angrily tweeting" in a way that ended up negatively impacting a woman of color, she also discounts that without the motivation of people loving his project than he probably wouldn't do it.
Is that entitlement? Absolutely, because as a white-male-with-experience he can pull down 10-20% more (or 100% more) in salary than someone less privileged.
But it's also not particularly fair to Adam to suggest that his feelings are invalid, since he's made the best CSS framework in history.
The whole "mob response" & oppression of minorities is simply the natural consequence of tribalism on Twitter, see the January 6 riot on the US Capitol.
The moral is if Adam had stayed off Twitter and blankly ignored anyone suggesting he read the new "criticisms of Tailwind" article that Cher's a big fan of, then he never would have (accidentally, in my opinion) oppressed anyone.