maybe for pirate stuff, but not non-popular stuff like random peoples files 

 But for how long? For example, How long will 100 people seed your large video files  for , say, 5 months if you asked them for help? Would YouTube grow to be a giant as it is now if uploaders were not paid by YouTube ( by displaying ads). The world exists based on work. Everything costs money. You pay people for their work . if nostr wants to exist long term, incentive is the way 

 Lol, that is a conservative take.

Piracy is booming. People buy seedboxes overseas and share for long periods of time. Dirt cheap. 

 

 The world does not exist if everything is free. Nobody works for free, that’s a reality. Will you work for free? 

 I offer a lot of things for free without asking for money. Read my bio for an idea related to nostr.

People can do things without getting compensated you know. 

Look at the open source ecosystem

Lots of free and open things available without shekels