It's About Community, About Society, Not Business or Profit
The "rat race" is not for humans
FAR TOO MANY people out there fail to comprehend Free software because they are morbidly obsessed with money, which is often conflated with "success", especially in the business-centric media. In the view of such people, folks who volunteer to be doctors and nurses in poor communities in Africa are "suckers" or misguided or something to that effect.
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??? You do this FOR FREE???"
Take a moment to contemplate the stupidity of statements like, "if you are so smart, why aren't you rich?"
It would be a gross over-generalisation to say all the above "business-minded" people are sociopaths. Some of them are simply brainwashed ("programmed") and they'd say utterly ridiculous things like, billionaires can do anything they want, even when they're already in their 90s and may need assistance to leave their bed.
Free software can be a sort of "way of life". This talk by J.Y.Amihud shows that it can also be a "career", even if not for financial gain. Some people will never "get" it. That's OK, they will probably work themselves to death or do jobs they hate to boast about money that, relative to oligarch's money, is rather minuscule. █