Are you new to the #fediverse? Do you want to see more polished versions of fediverse software like Mastodon, and the third-party apps you can use with it? Can you afford to put some money into efforts to pay a living wage to the specialists who maintain and improve that software? Or put time and organisational skills into getting such efforts up and running? If so, please do. Otherwise, the 'verse, like the web before it, will be vulnerable to capture by Vulture Capitalists.
How to pay each other? Also consider... MONEY ALONE WILL NOT SAVE US
The challenges I see here are currently detracting from giving or not attractive because of such things like:
● nobody like banks / not many want anything to do with them
● HOW to pay - all ways lead back to PayPal or American banking or just bank fees and rigmarole / charging us all more and evidential / data collecting
● Ease of paying - similar to above but a more neutral or even more personal way is needed for improved 'crowd funding' even where WE LoVE TO GIVE infinately somehow. A lot don't even reply to DM's so this might need a PR or dedicated person though I do like talking to developers directly (sometimes about off-topic or political things I think we all could do better by training thoughts about).
... so that's also why we end up not giving or saying actually 'it's not worth it' to pay them people more than the software providers or pay banks %'s for which they have monopoly anyway (and give us debt back in the end).
● this is also why technically we are in a losing game that YES I ACCEPT WE should pay each other or share directly more (including giving labour and other l♡ve more often) but monopoly of money itself anyway means they (with state) always win or take the fat cream off top lessening our energy incrementally since those types of currency (and politically steering) = wrong change.
(And that's why you get those types of 'National Socialist'/fascism types of platforms as its unity from bank and state as source which is similar or just financial fascism in raw form)
It is force in the end unless other less worse or more advantageous ways (fir individuals not just broad 'system') are introduced.
I have before thought we need things like house sharing (where some don't pay and we squeeze more in) and other actually fun extremes involving OTHER ECONOMICS because using their tokens (MoneyCoin let's call it like an older even-worse 'Bitcoin') and using their value system ...and tech decisions is 100% a sure loss / degrading everything.
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MONEY ALONE *WILL NOT* AND *CANNOT* SAVE US
* = these asterisked terms include *WILL* as intentions of banks using their money (who don't support free/freedom-loving/cost effective/good people )
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*CANNOT* as technically we're all working in negative spectrum if money itself needs to be bought first (loans of various kinds where you pay for each 1 or 100 you get from bank loan therefore cheapening each 100 since you had to pay 10 for it!!!
DISCLAIMER:
I appreciate the reader may think a wall of text is overkill or not in the scope to talk about money itself BUT BELIEVE ME this isn't something avoidable or possible to ignore.
We couldn't even keep paying even if it was possible in debt-creation system. Really is about fixing everything in the end and accepting they put us on this lossy tangent and we have to correct it using our livesj!
Also as a footnote many like don't even understand or feel totality of above and go for greed as individual or whatever works (short-term vision)... (which is quite normal)...but also won't work as strategy.
We somewhat have to accept dying losing when all is debt-bas£d anyway and take the hits for what *gains ground* and not $aving what loses value over time anyway.
Thoughts welcome.
Certainly something we need to crack.
