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But what does that mean? "owe" is just shorthand for the concept of obligation. For someone to do something, they need a reason to do it. It doesn't have to be a transaction but there does need to be some reason.

If no one is doing a task you want done because they aren't obligated to, then you seek some other reason besides obligation. Ok, what then?

Do you imagine say a dating website where people compete to look attractive by getting points by doing the best job at finding the most bugs and patches and reporting them to the most downstream consumers the fastest?

by komali21 hours ago|

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> For someone to do something, they need a reason to do it. It doesn't have to be a transaction but there does need to be some reason.

Exactly! That's what I'm interested in exploring.

> If no one is doing a task you want done because they aren't obligated to, then you seek some other reason besides obligation. Ok, what then?

That's what I love exploring. Action with no obligation. Have you any examples of that in your life? Nobody obligates me to do the long walks I enjoy where I stick a 360 camera on my head and then upload the footage to Mapillary and other open platforms, I just like to do it, and I want to find other things that I'm motivated to do without obligation, and I'm fascinated by things people do for "no reason." Understanding human motivation is really important to me for some reason.

As to "what then," yes what then? If I run a cashless commune, how do we make sure the toilets get cleaned? That's the whole question, and I love exploring it. If you'd like to experience it yourself, you could always try attending a regional Burn for a bit of a micro version of it, people doing things just for the sake of it.

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what you mean by the dating app thing.