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Great article Trigs! My quick riff on that is that nearly every monetization model in the digital space today is either extractive or based on perverse incentives. I believe incentives are upstream from design, so if you're trying to build something prosocial without first building better incentives you'll inevitably either end up following the same extractive/perverse practices, or give up cuz you can't make your approach sustainable. My thesis is that decentralization/programmable money is the foundation to mechanisms that can align the common interest with self-interst (aka create non-extractive monetization models that benefit the common good), and if we build those everything else (how we design platforms to be more prosocial and not merely based on short term attention capture) will follow.

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