starholder

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

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.

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.

I don’t view them as a payment mechanism but rather in my role as a steward for the betterment of the timeline and community in farcaster (in what areas I know quite well). This is one reason I am so against giving direct tips for art work, etc, I don’t view them as my personal property to give, I’m more an agent