My 2c: (I haven't read this discussion from the start, but...)
ISTM that you're all grappling with the problem of 'payments'; current (immediate) 'money' proving itself a poor 'medium of exchange' in gauging how much a service/good is useful, in this situation. So why not have a general framework for 'smart contracts' of the kind that certain blockchain projects seem to aim at? Hypothetical e.g.: "10 credits from me will be vested with you once your commit to this repo has lasted for 3 years with only the 3 longest-term contributors having the final say on any code that alters it." (a sample attempt to reify the 'long-term' 'societal' value) It would be a 'free market', not only in deciding what's useful, but also in finding what's easiest to enforce in such 'social contract'-ing. Wasn't such decentralized politics the liberal ideal? -- --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
