love.fund

What if money flowed like love

Why?
The upside — what the world looks like when money flows like love Imagine money flows where love flows… What kind of a different world would that be?
Is it even possible?
What is love — a verb, not a feeling bell hooks' answer: love isn't something you fall into. It's something you do — care, commitment, trust, knowledge, responsibility, and respect, practiced every day. Metta — how lovingkindness flows Lovingkindness is a practice, not a mood. It flows only where attention is placed — and it grows the longer the attention stays. Relationality — love is a relation, not a list You don't love categories. You love this person, this place, this song. Any system that turns that bond into a transaction loses the love — so the only honest first move is a question: what do you love?
Traps to avoid
The dialectic Love and money follow opposite rules. The big idea: redesign money so it moves the way lovingkindness moves. Goodhart & crowding out — the two traps that erase love Make any score for love, and people will chase the score instead of the love. And pay for love the wrong way, and the money doesn't just miss — it erases the care that was already there. Technofeudalism — the shadow answer to "love what we fund" Big platforms already run this idea in reverse. They harvest our attention and charge rent on our care. Anything built in its spirit must be unable to become one of them.
How?
In the past Gift economies — the gift keeps relation open; the commodity closes it A gift keeps a friendship going. A payment ends it. So money here should carry its story and keep moving. Sacred Economics — money is a story, so it can be retold Money is a story we all agreed to. Stories can be retold. Eisenstein retells money as a gift — one that fades if you hoard it. Ancient Futures — the oldest economies flowed like love Before money existed, bands ran whole economies on sharing rules, kinship, and memory — and lived that way for most of human history. That old machinery never fully died, and new tools might bring it back at scale.
The practice Localism — love is particular, and particularity has a geography Love needs knowing, and knowing has a size. Money that stays close keeps its heart. Keep circles small, and let each one give outward. The commons — love sustained as governance Ostrom showed neighbors can care for shared things for centuries — with simple rules instead of markets or states. That's love, made to last. Attention — the substrate love and money share Love is a kind of attention. Money is stored attention. So giving money should be a way of looking closer — not a way to look away. dharma.gift — external site The sibling inquiry: find your calling there; explore how to fund it here.
Fellow present-day practitioners Quadratic funding — aggregated affection Quadratic funding proved strangers' love can be pooled and made bigger. But people gamed the score, and the pooling lost the friendships. Grassroots Economics — money as a promise between neighbors In Kenya, neighbors issue their own money as promises to each other. It works — and it's the closest real thing to money flowing like love. Gross National Happiness — Bhutan made flourishing the target of a state Bhutan spent fifty years running a country on happiness instead of money. What worked — and what broke — is a map for anyone trying to fund what they love.
Zoom out
The flow — the whole argument, in one scroll One artifact, transformed as you scroll: a heart, its widening circles, the shadow of the keep, the gift that keeps moving, the webs of neighbors, the swarm of small gifts, and the field it all becomes. love.fund — about this site love.fund is Kevin Owocki's open inquiry into how love — the deepest human emotion — could guide resources — the foundation of civilization. This site is an invitation to walk that question with him.

laboratory

The dialectic was just the start. Phase 2 is experimentation.

  1. A quadratic funding round at Node Zero Neighbors give small gifts. A shared pool matches them — the more people who give, the bigger the match. Our first live test of money flowing like love. oct 30, 2026
  2. To be announced The second experiment is still brewing. We'll name it soon. soon
  3. Also to be announced The third one, too. Watch this space. soon