Let's close the week gently, thinking about your own community, and a reframe that took me a while to believe.
Generosity and sustainability are not opposites.
They're partners.
The most generous thing you can do is build something that lasts, because a community that survives keeps giving long after the free-forever version would have burned out and closed.
Charging fairly isn't the opposite of caring.
Sometimes it's how the caring gets to continue.
What would shift for you if you saw earning a living from your work as an act of generosity toward its future, not a retreat from it?