> Yet, we continue to pay for our daily basics; food, water, electric…Yet we’ve decided for some insane reason that all this programming work the world’s richest companies rely on is worth absolutely nothing.

Stop making stuff open source, and there will be more paid jobs, and the paid jobs that exist will be valued more because they are no longer just "plumbing together open source components". Easy as that.

Will the software be higher quality? No. But that does not seem to be a concern anyway.