In the real epidemics or pandemics, 1 out of each 10 died. Not the ridiculous % of the ridiculous "plandemic".

At the age of 40, #FranzKafka (1883-1924), who never married or had children, was walking in Berlin Park when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favorite doll. She and Kafka search for the doll without success. Kafka told her to meet him the next day and they would come back to find her.

The next day, when the doll had not yet been found, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll that said: "Please don't cry.

I had a trip to see the world, I'll write to you about my adventures."

Thus began a #story that continues until the end of Kafka's life.

In their encounters, Kafka read her her carefully written letters from her doll with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.

Finally, Kafka brought him the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.

"It doesn't look like my doll at all," the girl said.

Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "My travels changed me." The girl kissed the new doll and brought her home happily.

A year later, Kafka died.

Several years later, the girl, now an adult, found a letter on the wrist. In the small letter signed by Kafka he said:

"Everything you #love will probably be lost, but in the end love will come back in a different way."

Book: Kafka and the Traveling Doll.

I think the concept of just raw Value-for-Value, on its own, with no paywall upfront to gate something of value, can't be relied on for making a living out of it, but can be relied on as a showcase of good will from people every now and then, or as close as always but with negligible amounts.

People should change their perspective on it and think back to old fashioned "I'm selling this value product for this value amount".

Let's call what people have been trying to push in the first part Free V4V, and the old fashioned way Priced V4V, both under the umbrella of V4V.

Examples of a health combo where one markets the other and the other funds the first:

1. A 2 hour podcast is free free, where the extended version that has another 30 minutes of content is behind a paywall or subscription.

2. The first chapter of a video game is free, and to play the rest you'd have to buy the game.

3. Streaming: You're watching and commenting for free, but if you want your comment to be more prominent and have a better chance of capturing the attention of the host, that's when you pay up.

Even when it was being pushed as a main FV4V with Zaps on Nostr, it was actually PV4V where zaps were making your profile more prominent on a post and you could advertise whatever you want as a bonus with an associated comment.

If you want to have a higher chance of success, don't think of just giving away stuff for free, put your perceived value on it, or part of it, and people who see its value will conduct with you a V4V transaction, otherwise it's just Value for Free (you know, I think that's a better term, V4V is fully or partially priced product, V4F is just free shit with the hopes of being compensated (when most of the time you won't).

freedoms not kingdoms

freedoms not kingdoms

If sending fiat is your requirement, Wise would probably be your best option.

Oh Lord, how I wish there existed a tool where I could pay 1000 sats for having delivered here a meme about people losing their mnemonic phrase 😅