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Imagine for a moment though, if GitHub stars could pay your rent.

Imagine a corporation spends money on an experiment where they purchase some luxury units of a fancy apartment building, and then rent was decided based on GitHub stars. You must collect a certain number of GitHub stars each month to satisfy rent or you get evicted. I wonder what kind of projects would come out of this.

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A method to artificially pump up the GitHub star count will be found, but little useful software will be made.

It would perhaps be called "starhacking" or "repoCD"

Also the distribution of stars is... weird. I've got a repo with 24k stars (which is still enough for top 500 on github) which took minimal effort and no maintenance - definitely lower than a lot of large software projects which deserve lots of money. Like, I'm next to pipenv and vagrant and making any money distribution based on that would be absurd.

24k on GitHub, 32k on HN. You must be good at getting internet points

Do anything long enough and you'll get lucky one day. There was no skill involved beyond HN addiction.

That idea sort of proves that Github has evolved into a popularity contest/social platform. It use to be a git hosting company.

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