“Money doesn’t solve all problems…it can also create wrong incentives. It can increase stress and pressure, it can rip communities apart, it can do good in the short term but harm in the long term. And all of these factors need to be taken to account if we want to channel support into our shared digital infra and into OSS communities”

cultivating sovereignty and stewardship // one must imagine Sisyphus happy // https://fevenm.substack.com // https://x.com/notfeven

i want to say that the act of decentralization and the inherent agency it affords individuals to contribute to open source projects is a form of incentive as well. tokens can not (and are not) be the only incentives that matter.