> If you want something that someone else isn't giving you, you have the option to try to do it yourself, or try to compel someone else to give you what you want somehow.
Yes, exactly, the opposite of paying, since when you pay someone something they owe you whatever you paid for.
If we leave aside owe, deserve, and earn, we can start discussing things like what we want our kernel ecosystem to look like, how we can make it safer, etc, without being burdened by these concepts.
It's a simple intellectual exercise, that's all. If you're having a strong reaction to it, imo that'd make it even more fun for you to participate.
But there was no intellectual excercise. Only a complaint with no proposal.
You want someone to do something for you for some other reason than that they owe you.
They already are doing something for you that they don't owe you. They are writing software that you benefit from. You just want them (or somebody) to do something else that they don't owe you.
They aren't, because they don't owe you and it's not something they want to do for fun, and so since the problem is they don't owe you, you wish to set aside words like "owe".
Well sure. Looks like you found the problem and the solution alright. Why didn't anyone else think of that?
I don't feel like I'm complaining, I feel like I'm asking how else someone would frame it without leaning on the concepts mentioned. What changes about the dynamic then?
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?
> 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.