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@adhdeanasl This feels resonant, it's so difficult to exit transactional modes of thinking and depending on cultural context I think many people simply just *don't* have another framework for considering "value" or mutuality in spaces intrinsically rather than economically or in a way that's skewed towards their interests.

Mutuality has to exist, right? In an interdependent functional space? But there *should* be recognition of intrinsic human value *first and foremost* -- I feel like this recognition is the best way to create the necessary give & take within any community/system where there's also understanding that sometimes what someone "brings to the table" won't exist (because they have health issues or need space, to give some examples) and that doesn't make them a less *valuable* person or member of the group.

Ultimately though I think that social dysfunction skews towards economic or productive/production value because that's how our society would like us to measure ourselves, first of all, and it's a hard trap to remove oneself from.