just tried the new tipping feature and tbh it felt really weird to tip friends 🫤🫤

still, thank you @androidsixteen.eth @jtgi @v @know @hillis @proxystudio.eth @yancey @timour @j4ck.eth for being here :)

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For one thing, handing someone a small bit of money is not an interaction among equals. It places you above the person you’re tipping. You tip waiters, Uber drivers, bellhops.

Otoh friendly social interactions take pains to equalize the parties involved and then elevate together.

Also, debts are relationships and settling a debt ends a (part of a) relationship. Every time you tip someone, you further disconnect from them.

David Graeber wrote a whole book about this

Also, debts are relationships and settling a debt ends a (part of a) relationship. Every time you tip someone, you further disconnect from them.

David Graeber wrote a whole book about this 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5,000_Years

In the end, it just feels off. Imagine physically handing someone a dollar every time they say something that’s funny or witty. 

How would they react the fifth or sixth time you did it, after the novelty had worn off? 

Is that the kind of experience we want to create more of?

Last year at Farcon, I printed out paper $degen bills and use them to tip people irl.

It was a topical and funny, and also I was curious about the experience of financially thanking/incentivizing someone face to face. 

Everyone loved it, as a joke. But I simply can’t see myself doing it in earnest.

i also feel this way which is how i also feel about accepting referral fees for passing on my friends to other founders to hire

Maybe it should only be used for non-friends. Like when people used to give reddit awards for helpful posts.

I'll prolly never use it at all though