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That's pretty interesting, except the second example isn't really sustainable. If the artists were real shop owners, what would they live off?
I like the idea of paying what you think is fair, but I'm sure some people will abuse that. If someone homeless needed food and went there, what would they pay really? They have little to no money. I've never heard of this model in Portugal. But yes, some countries in Europe you can barter how much you will pay for a service. But usually that is used negatively, as a form of extorsion, i.e. either you pay me x or I won't do it for you. I like the turn-around!
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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