The #nonquant question is, why are they choosing to engage in this transaction with each other? What do they value?

Maybe Alex values their business somehow, possibly having happy customers and being productive.

Blake probably values the service and also chose the business for a number of reasons.

But if you break it down to what they value, and if you don't need to talk about monetary transactions *only*, you can start crediting work that is not transactional.

So there is one big plus side of #nonquant #econ. Work that is invisible to classical economics (domestic work, for starters) becomes first class economic activity.

Next, I can say that in a nonquantified economy, potentiation of value can be recognized as investment.
Boom. Education, infrastructure, and preventive health — WHOLE SECTORS crudely shoehorned into the quantified economy — get promoted to their rightful top priority.

Furthermore, if you just decide not to take payment for your work, in #nonquant #econ, you can just call that investment.

That's actually what you're doing when you volunteer anyway, isn't it?

With #nonquant, I'm not talking about everyone quitting your jobs and installing my software and suddenly utopia.

#nonquant is a way to look at what people are doing every day and why, and how the world works, without talking about money as though it's more than what it is: overhead.