Comment Re:We must normalize paying for worth (Score 1) 89
No, it's not what is happening, the analogy breaks down because it expects a voluntary contribution from someone outside of the organisation. Nothing about a waitress tipping at any point involves someone doing voluntary work with an expectation of variable income. A waitress is an employee of an organisation, the fact that organisation pays them incorrectly is not analogous to someone not paying for open source software.
If you insist on staying with food and not liking the cake approach, consider maybe someone who volunteers at a foodbank. Open source work prepared for anything other than contracted / full time employment is volunteering. That has nothing to do with tipping a waitress.