My friend complained about how every financial news site he reads requires its own app. So I helped him set up an RSS reader. Some websites don’t have RSS feeds. So I used a free service to turn their newsletters into feeds.
He was amazed by how much simpler the app is. He said I should turn it into a business. Lots of people would want something like this. I told him the RSS app is open source. And the service has been running for free for over 10 years.
My friend then asked, why don’t they stop? Who wants to keep losing money? I said, because not everything is a capitalist activity. He said yes, but they need money to run the server. I said, so they pay with their own money. He said OK but didn’t seem to get it.
I finally gave up and said, sometimes crazy people exist, and sometimes that’s good for the world.
He spent some time processing it and replied, ahh, like Elon Musk?