I calculated that so far I saved with my pro-bono work in open source and documentation around 2,085,000 million hours of professional labor.

Now my hourly rate is 100 bucks, so that's about 200M worth of labor that ended up in other peoples pockets.

I could probably retire now. In a just world, we might give people credit for this kind of work or we would organize our commons more sensibly.

But in the world today, value is siphoned up - and the siphon is a very well tuned siphon.