I can see your point about translating these concepts into something of value. If you want to do this and get $dollars, then you have to make what you are providing attractive to the market economy that trades in dollars.

But then again, if you have alternative currency or value systems, you could protect what you offer from selection by the $ market forces, and optimise so it thrives in a barter /skill share / some other value economy

Protecting vs. translating… this is a very interesting question. I find myself undecided.

I can’t find words to phrase what I’m thinking right now…

It’s all about protecting what you or I perceive as valuable over what business and market forces perceive as valuable ($money$).

No, I would correct this to read: It’s all about *translating* what you or I perceive as valuable INTO what businesses perceive as valuable.

It’s all about protecting what you or I perceive as valuable over what business and market forces perceive as valuable ($money$). I think that the world around us shows that whatever does not allow the dominant system in the world to achieve its aims (more money/economic growth/”progress”) will definitely be selected against, or at the least seen as worthless.

I’ve just started thinking myself that your site, and others like it are the mutations against the cultural idea pool, the bio-diversity of the internet ecosystem (to really mix up the metaphors) where new adaptations to present circumstance, ideas and actions have a chance to spawn and hopefully grow. The more viable we can make free, new, exciting, different thought for people, the better of the world will be in the long run.