In a society where so much importance is placed on Money, it is impossible to avoid the collision between commons and commerce.
To protect commoning, affirmative steps to keep commerce at arm’s length are essential. This is a lesson illustrated by free software. Many programmers find “their development environment radically changed, sometimes for the worse, by the entrance of paid labor into their communities,” according to the free software programmer and academic Benjamin Mako Hill.49
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BOLLIER, David and HELFRICH, Silke, 2019. Free, fair, and alive: the insurgent power of the commons. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers. ISBN 978-0-86571-921-7. site 
Presents a foundational re-thinking of the commons--the self-organized social system that humans have used for millennia to meet their needs. Bollier and Helfrich offer a vision of a future beyond the dead-end binary of capitalism versus socialism. The authors cover the internal dynamics of commoning, how the commoning worldview opens up new possibilities for change, the role of language in reorienting our perceptions and political strategies, and seeing the potential for commoning everywhere. They provide a non-academic synthesis of contemporary commons and present a narrative: that we can be free and creative people, govern ourselves through fair and accountable institutions, and experience the aliveness of authentic human presence. --Adapted from publisher description