Oddbean

A community doesen't exist without transfer of value, either you pay for it out of pocket or your participation is being exploited to cover the costs. The socialization that happens there is information exchange, and this is exchange of value. Money is speech, to exclude it from a community is to restrict activities there. The purpose of nostr is uncensorability and this includes exchanging both tangible and intangible value.

Ok, but sometimes, you do want to restrict commercial activities and limit the exchange of values to contributions because value in the form of money can have a corrosive impact to the community (or the opposite depending on the case), because the fact that money can be used to other markets/communities, disturbs the focus of the community, let's say certain religious communities for example. Nostr is the case that commercial activity can have building effects for the community as long as it doesn't disturb other values like decentralisation for example, but money are not necessary to communities in general, although value does like you said...