😜 I actually agree with what you’re saying. My invoice was just for kicks. But this idea is in line with proof of work. Value isn’t created out of thin air. Expecting value or asking for it to be given to you for nothing in return is akin to begging. I think it’s possible to be charitable with one another without encouraging or facilitating begging. Giving value back where we have genuinely received value, and ignoring the grifters, will encourage the type of value for value environment I think Nostr is designed for.
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I figured :) These are my thoughts too. It's not a new problem. I watched "Festival Express" again last night. It's a documentary, set in the seventies, that follows a group of musicians as they travel by train across Canada to perform a number of concerts. The Band, THe Grateful Dead, and Janis Joplin are a few of the bands. All allong the route teenagers and 20 somethings were protesting that the concerts should be free. That they shouldn't have to pay to enter, because muisic is "free". They were chanting this mantra with little regard to the amount of work the musicians put into their craft, or how much work it took for the organizers to arrange the concerts.