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You: tipping tokens gud

Marxist Me: tipping tokens are in fact gud, because their exploitative enshittification as a payment alternative pushed by the platform/project/influencer bourgeoisie is going to force creatives to mutualize into their own token controlled networks far faster than they would have on their own.

Worldbuilding /starholder |

DAOs: The LAO & Flamingo

Seriously. I don't like what I see out there atm, but can also see an ultimate end state past it. Closed audience/creator networks are the new means of production. Everyone in the middle needs your eyes and attention to profit themselves, so start treating it like a valuable resource which you control.

And there are degrees of this as well. It's one thing to pay Zora their vig. It's another to use ENJOY or any other tipping token as a means of payment when you can ultimately get that value creation trampoline yourself by putting a token you control on top of your audience.

There's an arb here and it's your labor.