On a late August Tuesday, two Boston restaurants—Comfort Kitchen in Dorchester and Barra in Union Square—joined a global chorus of over a hundred eateries across thirteen countries in an act of quiet faith: they removed their prices and trusted their communities to decide what a meal was worth. The initiative, Paga Lo Que Puedas, born in Mexico City, is less a business model than a question posed to human nature—whether generosity, when invited, can hold something together that economics alone might not. In a dining industry squeezed to its margins, these restaurateurs chose to absorb risk in