my thesis: tipping and social engagement tokens would reward creators. 

the reality: tipping and social engagement tokens are consistently and ruthlessly gamed by noise generating farmers who don’t give a fuck about the creator economy. 

and their bullshit drowns out the creators.

I write about tech + politics + humans. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

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I've hated tipping my entire life. Tipping feels like something rich people have the luxury of doing and poor people get shamed for not being able to afford to do. It's a remnant of superiority culture. "I have more money, so I'll get better service"

Crypto tipping is no different, despite all the efforts to wrap it in a different bow.

The more you 'engage' the more you get to tip, as if engagement is some magic metric that makes you more valuable. 

Basically, the more of a real life you have in the real world, the less valuable you are in crypto tipping culture.

The more degenerate you are, living perpetually online and becoming completely owned by some niche subculture (aka unable to think unique, creative thoughts outside of that subculture), the more valuable you become (more tipping allowance).

It's just more tribalistic nepotism and plutocracy all the way down.

Crypto just exposes that flaw and runs it down to zero via farming as a result. It is a flawed concept from the start.