Incentives rule the world.
Nostr and Bitcoin are two sides of the same coin, the Venn diagram almost overlapping I would guess, or at least very close, with Nostr almost completely subsumed.
Right now Nostr is where Bitcoiners get together and hang out (as well as other places of course like stacker.news etc.). As such it is very natural for Bitcoiners to reward each other for interactions using Bitcoin as that is what they are all about. You are rewarded in Bitcoin for being close to Bitcoin.
Cast your mind forward now and what happens when the, say, knitting community springs up on Nostr. Would Sats flow as freely? How about the oil traders? I would hazard a guess that oil traders’ zaps would be orders of magnitude larger than the knitters’, no offense to knitters.
I am not trying to pretend that these incentives do not already exist in our modern society but would the monetisation of interactions mean that people are, consciously or unconsciously, dragged towards “high value” communities?
Will everything be monetised? Is it good?