There's a problem in the D economic system

[Chris]

On Wednesday, 24 July 2019 at 09:20:43 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

>
>> And now you say that you "cannot estimate when the bounty 
>> system will be ready because it depends on the company" only 
>> to inform people in the next sentence that you could launch it 
>> sooner, because all that is needed is an issue and a dollar 
>> amount. Was the community informed about this? If not why 
>> wasn't the community informed earlier?
>
> There is a company that wanted to pay out bounties and 
> approached me for ideas how to go about it. I figured out how 
> to do it with Flipcause and let them know. Now I'm waiting to 
> hear what their budget is so we can pull the trigger. I was 
> planning to make a blog post about it as soon as we got it set 
> up. I only mention it here because it's on topic. If someone 
> wants to apply a bounty to an issue sooner, then I can get it 
> going sooner. Just let me know.
>
>

The question remains, if one issue and a dollar amount suffices 
to set up a bounty system with Flipcause, why did you decide to 
wait instead of going public immediately to tell the general user 
community to contribute issues and dollars in order to get things 
going asap, why wait until the company comes back to you, if 
apparently it doesn't depend on the company?

This issue shows quite nicely that there is a double standard in 
the world of D. Whenever there are complaints by ordinary users 
they are fed the line "We're all in this together, you have to 
make an effort too, you know." But then there are loads of things 
that the members of the general community / users are not 
informed of, although they do affect them and their work, and 
long-time volunteers are treated with disrespect. Doesn't make 
sense. One cannot help but notice that there's a small circle of 
people at the top, maybe with some affiliates in the industry, 
who do their own thing and then there is the rest, i.e. what is 
called "the community". D has basically become a political party. 
Joakim (another great contributor who has left the community) 
once asked me what had changed my mind about D so drastically, 
and - apart from the numerous technical issues - it's the fact 
that with the advent of the D Foundation D started to become a 
political party. Posts by the D leadership often read like press 
releases of political parties. "Mistakes were made", "we are 
planning to...", blah blah blah, but nothing ever happens. 
Chances are that people might accept it, if the leadership told 
them "We have our own agenda, we are catering to a select group 
of users, so take it or leave it", which is perfectly legit. But 
don't tell people that they can make a difference while in 
reality they can't. The good thing is that, unlike politics, 
technology and engineering do not forgive this kind of behavior.