You desire a sharing community, but the takers/defectors are destroying that community.
Copyleft attempts to create a pool of code that forces sharing. But it broadly fails because you simply can't force antisocial people to be good sharers (plus source code usually isn't as valuable as we hope).
With any gifting/sharing, you have to accept that some of it will be abused. It is hard to filter for only community minded people who don't greedily abuse, and ideally who give freely.
I don't believe my circle of friends are becoming more selfish. I'm unsure what I would say about the rest of the world.
Copyleft attempts to create a pool of code that forces sharing. But it broadly fails because you simply can't force antisocial people to be good sharers (plus source code usually isn't as valuable as we hope).
With any gifting/sharing, you have to accept that some of it will be abused. It is hard to filter for only community minded people who don't greedily abuse, and ideally who give freely.
I don't believe my circle of friends are becoming more selfish. I'm unsure what I would say about the rest of the world.