To be honest, I feel like being educate and someone "know better than the uninformed" is "doing good to me" when you say things above. A feeling of "supervised democracy"
Well, sorry if my tone sounded arrogant to you or something. I want to stress that this is only for the initial issuing. You may think that more people will use it if it's issued in a 100% p2p fashion, but we disagree and want to find out if it's possible to distribute it in a less wasteful manner that is reasonable for the user base. My point is that many potential users don't precisely see mining as a legit way to issue the initial base. In that sense, we may be able to get people on board of the cryptocurrency ship that would otherwise be hesitant to use bitcoin. At least, this is our hope.
Many other complementary/alternative currencies have been issued through charities. We believe that this form of issuance will have more acceptance in the "complementary currencies movement", for example.
Ecologists usually see mining as wasteful in resources. While explaining them that it was necessary to maintain the network security, we realized that it wasn't necessary to issue the full base through mining. It was just Satoshi's design choice to make the issuance 100% p2p.
Other people argued that issuing it through miners was unfairly favorable to them and make the currency look like a ponzi scheme. While explaining that costs tend to equal expenditures and therefore profits tend to zero in the mining free market, we realized that this would be probably false for the initial inflationary period and/or the system as a whole would be "overpaying for security".
Finally, I think "we're giving away 80 millions" can be a useful and appealing sentence for charity organizations, free culture producers or just curious people that don't know anything about bitcoin or freicoin and may want to know more after reading that.
Of course, we may be wrong, but I definitely think that it is worth trying.
In less than 3 years we will know if this was a good idea or we should have just created a bitcoin with demurrage, giving all the issued coins to miners.