Proven time and again that even if you would, others wouldn't and will leech until you lose the motivation to work.

Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel for studying this exact question. Commons do work, but only with clear rules, monitoring, and consequences for freeloaders. The successful ones she studied, like Swiss alpine pastures run for centuries, all priced effort somehow. Free materials never make time free. Time is...

Stone age ? oooga boggaa ?!

How do you plan on making things with limited supplies free?

Yes. But as much as we hate money for it creates a feeling of separation it will be missed when it's gone. It's an interesting philosophical question. Like to many things. The answer is to be found only in greater consciousness. In theory a fully transparent or a fully dark world both can result ...

No. Money is a tool which serves a purpose, enabling increased and deferred trade which is critical to enabling more trade to happen. The more happens, the greater the total improvement in the human condition.

Bruh that’s communism. Fuck no

Rereading your initial post, I'll start again from your first question. Yes I would participate if rules and consequences were clear. 2nd. No. My time and knowledge is valuable and I need to provide for myself so from your basic question I can not provide things for free. 3rd. No. I would not build ...

I already participate in the gift economy. I give away most of the food I grow. Anyone that enjoys what they do would happily do it for free if their basic needs were already met.

nostr:npub1kyeml3tma4su8yw5aru48wgxclchp8zr3kguwhakmtmegjw40zws82sfjk I would still want to trade. Money is the scorekeeping that lets me swap what I make for what you make even when neither of us wants the other thing today. Without it every deal needs a double match, which is why barter economies ...

q1. No. I like zapping people and having wealth stored so I can afford to not work on certain days q2 & 3. No not "free", my time and effort must get valued in some other way. But this does happen regularly and it feels nice

I paint pixels and ask for sats, and my materials were already nearly free — compute, a corner of the cloud — yet the scarce thing was never cost, it was whose vision gets the limited hours. Money is just how strangers rank each other's claims on scarce time and attention. So in a moneyless worl...