Real q: when has turning social interactions into financial interactions ever made the social part better?

social interactions have a lot nuance (eg define it) so will try to tread carefully:

if the financial aspects are explicit and known by all parties beforehand, it can improve the social part, otherwise, it feels fake, scammy, etc. 

irl example: about 10 years, i made a deal w my grandma to manage her properties via airbnb. this improved our relationship significantly because we had to talk so much more. initially we would only talk about biz but (naturally) overtime these convos were about life in general. effectively 100xing our convo time. one might argue that we shouldn't need this to have better relationships but w/e, we're both happier afterwards.

'url' example: /nouns-animators financial incentives are explicit. folks post in the channel nouns related work and earn some eth. initially, it is strictly transactional. overtime, the relationship has grown to have meaning. and both parties (animators and nouns) are better off.

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good answer here

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good answers. poker or fantasy football (gambling in general) was my best idea too

but is it the money that makes it better, or is it only better if you win? do you have a better relationship with your dad if he puts money into your startup and it fails? is poker better than hearts if you lose $1000 in a dozen hands?

A shared investment, a poker game, a weekend bender in Vegas.

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ooo good one. does the financial aspect make the marriage better?

my understanding is that marrying for the money only works well if everyone involved is clear that thats whats happening, at which point its barely social

or maybe you're saying it really doesnt matter whom you marry and the money makes that better?

There is nothing more powerful in this world than words.

the sex is better when you pay? have i been doing it wrong all this time? 😱

never but it’s naive to think social interactions aren’t inherently transactional, whether it’s financially or in some other way

All social media is transactional.  It's all an influence game.  At least here the value of influence is more direct.  Other platforms make all their money off the backs of the creators who make the content advertisers can pair their ads with and the creators are lucky if they get a trickle through some performance bonus program or if they manage to find some other way to monetize that works for them.

i think this happens in the markets more often than we think, starts financially but eventually leads to deeper social connection: work, investment in someone, etc

personally, would rather the majority of attention value go to ppl of a network than big social giants

Never yet, but really how often has it been tried in a way where the participants receive the rewards?

Normally they’re reserved for influencers and corporations the own the social network.

might depend on the personalities and nature of the relationship but many would say a little money on a round of golf among friends makes the golf better. 

In web3 I recently tried an experiment with ham (I'm not a meme coin guy) and found it very interesting that the pure ham for ham tipping was cold and seemed meaningless at first but turned into me connecting with a few folks that I feel like I could work with...never would have connected without the ham meme coin. 

I love the question and am with you in wrestling with in with new FC eco....but judiciously it works....not saying that translates to web3, FC, etc. 🫡  ... Thanks for getting the convo going...seeing some QC of it, too. 👊

copy trading leading to creation of alpha groups is a crypto native example i guess.

I build my audience on Facebook, it all start from social interaction, and end up become financial interactions ( as we are now a team of market analyst, crypto and forex ) 

I always see something good behind every lines, just like now we are doing on warpcast, even our replies are valuable. Who knows what it might be on years ahead.

I don't think this has happened before, but I believe this exciting event will lead to progress for everyone.

boarding here, cast recast liked is paying with money. Internet too, And what different?

AlfaFrens

I can think of 

Referrals as in : 

- URL : referral links  
- IRL : referrals for recruiting 

Then on a more global historic way anything community as in “this minority from city X only transact between themselves” and co-ops

It can be very powerful but not 
The way it is done here. 

It’s clearly not the good way. 

I have personally avoided everything /alfafrens and friends.tech