I appreciate your substantive reply. It exceeds my expectations.

However, it reveals I have not well communicated my views, which I will attempt to clarify. I have never stated that Hive should not have tokens. I have said that people on Hive have higher values than money, and that Hive can eliminate botnets, scams, and plagiarism by recognizing those other human values are more valuable and rewarding them more than financial interests. Those harms only exist because fraud seeks money. No one is going to run a botnet for love. Conversely, spam is controlled by appropriate financialization, such as RC's.

I completely refute any rights ascribed to society. Only individuals have rights, and only individuals have any use for free speech. Society has no interests, nor values. A society is nothing more than a given set of individual people, and only individual people have rights or values.

I do advocate eliminating curation rewards, because they substitute financial interests for more relevant values that inform curation. Curation rewards do not promote quality content, as myriad platforms featuring upvotes without financialization reveal, and demonstrably have been shown on Hive to produce undesirable results. Trending has often poorly reflected the interests of the community on Hive due to stake being the metric by which posts are evaluated and posts being profitable to curators.

The occasional application of stake by censors to eliminate users with opinions large stakeholders disapproved of has also retarded our growth. I can supply many statements by those that have ceased using the platform that affirm that is why they don't use Hive. Many more individuals have not ever bothered to post here because of the many examples of censorship.

"If I build a game on Hive using AI no one is going to give a shit that I used AI.
The game will speak for itself and provide the same amount of value to the network either way."

Substituting financial interests for many more valuable human interests enables human participation to be replaced with devices that disregard other values and thereby outcompete people for financial rewards. I can point to several MMORPGs that needed to eliminate bots because of that very fact. Bots are able to simply harvest financial resources without competing interests. Every MMORPG with an economy has been threatened with being overwhelmed by bots making their economies unusable by people playing the game for other reasons than simply to accumulate wealth. The easier it was to sell in-game resources for fiat, the worse the problem such games had. If people cannot play your game because AI has botted all the economic resources, no one will play your game. AI is a tool, and using tools to make things is fine. Using AI to replace social interactions destroys society.

"Such a model does not exist."

On the contrary, an almost unlimited range of examples of other economic systems have existed in the past, exist today, and will undoubtedly continue to exist as long as people do. Potlatch economies enabled N. American tribes to thrive for millenia. FOSS exists today, and my computer runs software given to me by people that spent hundreds of man years making it. I am not an economist, but a quick search will avail you of a long list of economies that do not involve money at all, do not involve debt based money, or involve very strange forms of currencies, most of which are irrelevant to Hive. Every ecosystem, for example, can be thought of as an economy of nutrients.

Hive should promote human values such as free speech, affection, aesthetics, and other such strictly human values above money, and I point out some examples of substituting financialization for those things being existentially harmful to the platform, such as bidbots, opinion flagging, and the cause of the creation of Hive itself.

We presently react to spam, scams, and plagiarism by downvoting to counter the over-promotion of financial interest that attracts such mechanisms, and I assure you that botnets have long extracted rewards on Hive, and continue to today. It is because of excessive financialization that Hive suffers these detriments, and has almost been destroyed more than once.

Nothing in Hive's current code guarantees we will survive the technological advance of LLM's. Code is infinitely mutable, and we have the opportunity to fix it before the platform is bereft of human users that botnets flag off the platform, replace consensus witnesses, turn Hive into a convocation of toasters ruled by Dr. Evil, to whom all our base belong.

Hyperbole? Ya, you bet. However, the threat is real if the specifics are unpredictable beyond excessive financialization being the only vector through which such a threat can eventuate. Hive only has value insofar as only people use it. Only people should be able to use it, and any mechanism usurping human social interaction functionally deprecates people to the level of chattel, because toasters cannot rise to possess human rights.