Rat Races Are for Rats (or Humans Who Behave Like Rats)
In the competition for ideas, or over ideas, people get nasty and vicious. In pursuit of money, most people are willing to trample over and destroy other people.
Greed and social (or class) consciousness didn't come from nature. But alphamale instincts seem inherent and hereditary.
In the world of Free software, which is grounded in ethics and empathy, alphamale instincts are suppressed because they're openly discouraged, even condemned.
In the world of Free software, people whom act like rats are imposters. They're not alphamales, but they try to become alphamales.
Grown-ups and people who take themselves seriously gradually learn to ignore the rats or set up "rat traps". This way they can get "Real Work" done. █