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fix: replace tangled umbrella/rain metaphor with direct description
The old version ("the university is the umbrella, the tool is the rain") made the tool sound like the threat being sheltered from, which inverts the meaning. Replaced with direct prose: salary → time → tool, nobody planned it, it happens in the gap between paid work and actual work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Here is what actually funds Processing and p5.js: UCLA pays Reas and McCarthy salaries. Those salaries buy them time. They spend some of that time---uncompensated, untracked, invisible to any budget---maintaining software used by millions. The Foundation exists to receive donations and coordinate development. UCLA exists to pay the salaries that make the unpaid work possible.
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This is the same pattern I documented across 28 tool authors in ``Who Pays''~\citep{scudder2026sustainability}. The university is the umbrella. The tool is the rain. The umbrella does not know it is holding off rain; it thinks it is employing a professor.
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This is the same pattern I documented across 28 tool authors in ``Who Pays''~\citep{scudder2026sustainability}. The university pays a salary. The salary buys time. The time goes to building a tool used by millions. Nobody planned this. Nobody budgeted for it. It just happens, invisibly, inside the gap between what a professor is paid to do and what they actually do.
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\section{What the Art Market Funds vs.\ What Grants Fund}
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