Are you evaluating also how much time it took to complete the after hour project? What if I complete a clone game in 2 years? This might be excluding anybody that cannot work after hours, for a reason or another.
Maybe I'm reading into this but I see this type of response a lot on HN.
> A: You need experience. Get some after hours
> B: I don't have any time after hours. It's not fair
Like gees! What do you expect?
B: I wanna be guitar player in a rock band
A: Well, if you don't play guitar, take lessons after hours
B: I don't have any time after hours
A: So what do you expect me to do about it? I'm not about to add someone who's never played guitar and can't demonstrate the skills as a guitarist in my band. It's not my problem that you can't play, don't have the time to learn, and yet want to be in my band.
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Same for any company: So what do you expect me to do about it? I'm not about to add someone who's never programmed games and can't demonstrate the skills as a game programmer in my team. It's not my problem that you can't code games, don't have the time to learn, and yet want to be in my gamedev company.
The active removal of any (even semblance) of community in society, to be replaced with radical individualism, has been horribly detrimental. There is no shame, there is no right or wrong, there is no responsibility to others.
And this extends to both sides of the political spectrum. The right glorify this "Don't step on me", "I don't care about others that don't exactly fit into my in-group", "no taxes (contributions to society)" mentality, while the left cultivates "we must take care of everyone and make everyone feel included as they are, no matter what, but we can't ask anyone to be responsible to society in any way in return".
We descended in to madness.
As an example, SF has the highest tax revenue per capita in the USA
https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/slideshows/us-cities-with...
So why is it so dysfunctional? My guess is the right would say because so much is wasted on the wrong things.
Note: I'm not saying the right is correct. I'm only suggesting a different interpretation of their POV.