You make a great points…and I’m actually a Communist…but I’m a starving communist.
I am a software engineer who has been out of the film industry on comp for the past 6 months (broke my foot on the job). I have been teaching myself Haskell and Purescript because that’s what I like. Anyway, I had this idea because I couldn’t find any products I was looking for locally. I came up with this because I didn’t see what I wanted as a consumer.
I can either go back to work breaking my back, hauling feeder cable for the film industry or I can create something that helps wrestle control away from Amazon while also making me some money. I’m sorry that I live in a capitalist society but I do. Also, I think you might agree that I could have gone ultra-greedy with this idea but I carefully considered enshittification (that we see time and again when greedy bastards look for profit motives) and decided to try and spin up a free and open source system to wrestle control away from assholes like Amazon etc WITHOUT those same enshittification factors built in.