Speaking to the quality of the organization - the people in it and the relationships between them. I used to be part of a couple of hackerspaces. The expertise

Speaking to the quality of the organization - the people in it and the relationships between them. I used to be part of a couple of hackerspaces. The expertise and labor we received as a volunteer organization could not be bought. Once we started making money and hired staff, the magic was gone. Basically like when your hobby becomes work. You see it with TikTok and YouTube as well, of course the commercialization pays for a lot of high quality content, but it's basically TV at this point, for every high quality channel there's 1000 people trying anything to get ad revenue and it makes the whole thing hard to wade through. Compare that with the Vine compilations now archived on YouTube, some of the funniest, more original humor IMO, and no one was doing it to get paid (tho a few were able to pivot into internet celebrity-dom)