I pay people (not many of them yet, but I like gittip and hope to do more) who I want to be free to create something interesting in the future. I do not see it

I pay people (not many of them yet, but I like gittip and hope to do more) who I want to be free to create something interesting in the future. I do not see it as recompense for their previous work but as a way for me to help them keep doing the things that make us all great.