Editing Moving from free software to free life (section)

== An epidemic of freedom ==

There is a process by which we take people and things (land, labor, capital) out of the money economy and put them into the commons.  Which is:  we buy things and give them away.  We buy a house and invite someone to stay there for free.  Or we rent (buy time) in a house and do the same.  Or we buy food for ourselves and a computer and use it to help people.  It is called generosity.  It is wrongly (we think) seen as a virtue, an aspect of someone's character, but in my experience generosity is more like a contagion--an epidemic--that is sweeping through the world and opening it up:  making it hospitable and welcoming and easy to move through instead of someone's private property.