There is always a risk of collapse for lemmy. When you are in decline there can be negative feedback loops furthering the decline.

But how high is the rate of unemployment in your country? In Germany it is really low, so it probably costs a working person only a few euros per month to support all children of unemployed persons. Not sure if it is worth it to not help these children as they are already severely disadvantaged. Not to mention it can be seen as an investment in these children.

Have you calculated how much money goes to these children of non-working people?

If you are not paying for Sync you are getting ads. So you are still paying (attention, data, you are the product).

Additionally proprietary software has some long term disadvantages that are not visible at first. This is why one needs to always inform people about it as they do not understand these disadvantages.

The biggest issue is that the owners of the proprietary code can change its course whenever they like it. See for example the Reddit Apollo Dev who would have sold out the community for 10 million dollars:

See his own published audio and the discussion on HN:

https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-31-end.m4a

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36245906

And how many are that? Are the non bootlickers even a significant number?

Would you say that the average citizen of a developed nation is one of these rich or is benefiting from the rich? They probably make up the most of these statistics about happiness.