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Majrelende wrote

I am just going to take, take, take, take and never contribute. What prevents me from doing this? What prevents me from taking a lot of your stuff and reselling it for profit?

This is called theft. It is not considered acceptable in a mutualist society, and neither is it in an anti-market anarchist one.

In this case, people would probably stop giving to you.

There is also the culture to consider. If the cultural image of happiness is an excess of material wealth, that is what people are going to think they want, whether they actually want it or not. However, if the cultural image of happiness is non-material or nonexistent, this will be much less of a problem.

Incompetence, mistakes, human errors

It makes no sense for someone to ask someone to write code for them if they are incompetent— neither does it make sense for them to write without any effort if they agreed to do so.

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