Someone: “People would never do anything without monetary gain”
Dungeon masters, Minecraft players, fanfic writers:
You’re so right
Wikipedia editors
Community moderators for discord servers, forums, and twitch channels
Animal shelter volunteers
People who put back extra carts at the grocery store
People who pick up litter while they’re on a jog or walk to throw it away
Humans Do Things. We dedicate a certain amount of our thing-doing capacity to making sure we survive, and in the society we’ve constructed that means Worrying about Money. But if you leave a human alone in a box with a pile of sand, we build castles.