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13 votes
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What is the bullshit economy?
7 votes -
Amsterdam’s ‘doughnut economy’ puts climate ahead of GDP
16 votes -
Twitch streamer Destiny and economist Richard Wolff debate capitalism, achieve nothing
19 votes -
Our miserable 21st century
8 votes -
There's nothing to do except gamble - NFTs, SPACs, and the future of money
6 votes -
The trillion-dollar woman - A conversation with the economist Stephanie Kelton about the "deficit myth," Modern Monetary Theory for dummies, and why the age of capital may finally be ending
18 votes -
China's reckoning (Part 2/3): Housing crisis
3 votes -
Capitalism Is Dead, Long Live Debtism
8 votes -
So how should your favorite restaurant pay its servers? Well, it's complicated
10 votes -
Why America sucks at everything
14 votes -
The Rai Stones are huge stone wheels used as currency on the island of Yap
11 votes -
The turbulent economics of the airline industry
2 votes -
Why is Africa still so poor?
1 vote -
The Treasury yield stress point
5 votes -
Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism has become ‘techno-feudalism’
9 votes -
America's 1% has taken $50 trillion from the bottom 90%
31 votes -
Norway's sovereign wealth fund gains more than £90bn during 2020 – central bank stimulus pushes up value of shares
6 votes -
No one knows how much the government can borrow
14 votes -
Making sense of sky-high stock prices
11 votes -
Is capitalism devouring democracy?
5 votes -
The Great Depression explained, globally
3 votes -
In America, Christmas trees are a multibillion-dollar business. But who’s making the money?
12 votes -
The fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
11 votes -
Is planet Earth full?
8 votes -
The new macro: "Give people money"
12 votes -
The Stable Marriage Problem
12 votes -
An in-depth exploration of the virtual economy
5 votes -
What happened in the US Treasury market in March 2020? Take 1 of 4.
6 votes -
Rethinking causation in economics
7 votes -
WTF happened in 1971?
16 votes -
This is neoliberalism
17 votes -
Credit-based communication platforms?
Does anyone know of any communication platforms [1] which use a credit system or have a 'cost' attached to actions such as making a post or commenting? I am imagining something like Reddit or a...
Does anyone know of any communication platforms [1] which use a credit system or have a 'cost' attached to actions such as making a post or commenting? I am imagining something like Reddit or a forum where users have a balance, and actions have a cost which is charged against that balance. So if I have 100 credits and posting in r/whatever costs 2 credits/post and 1 credit/comment then that limits the amount of interaction in that sub.
I am wondering if a cost system like this would be useful for moderation or to promote high-value content, since it effectively turns the platform into a market. One effect of this system is that it would discourage low-value posts/replies/comments, because there is a cost associated with making a post, namely opportunity cost of posting something else later. Perhaps the credits are purchased with real-world currency, which I assume would amplify this effect?
I imagine a sustainable system would have some way to reward users of high-value content with more credit so they are incentivised and able to produce more content: maybe upvotes count as credit, or users can donate credit to each other?
[1] I hope this term is vague enough to encompass all forms of modern digital communication. I am curious about direct communication (email, WhatsApp, ...) as well as social media in its various forms (Reddit, Tildes, Twitter, ...), niche platforms (Letter), wikis, fora, and anything else under the sun.
12 votes -
Can economic growth last?
8 votes -
Breadtube vs economics #1: Response to Philosophy Tube on housing
13 votes -
What is the right price for fashion?
7 votes -
Can we save energy, jobs, and growth at the same time?
5 votes -
Understanding measurement issues is key to understanding ‘economic growth’
5 votes -
The economics of vending machines
9 votes -
Why you can't boycott Amazon (and shouldn't even try)
13 votes -
Ecocredits, on how to use capitalism to solve global warming
5 votes -
Lengthy era of rock-bottom interest rates leaving its mark on US economy
10 votes -
The disruption con: Why Big Tech’s favourite buzzword is nonsense
6 votes -
Industrial literacy
6 votes -
How the gig economy screwed over millenials
9 votes -
RAND study uncovers massive income shift to the top 1% - The median worker should be making as much as $102,000 annually—if some $2.5 trillion wasn’t being “reverse distributed” every year
33 votes -
Politics is an American industry
5 votes -
How to think about the deficit by James Tobin
6 votes -
Why don't we just ban the buying, selling, and merging of companies?
With the ever-growing stream of acquisitions and mergers, it got me thinking: Why do we permit companies to do this? What would the harm be in banning this practice? If a company is becomes...
With the ever-growing stream of acquisitions and mergers, it got me thinking: Why do we permit companies to do this?
What would the harm be in banning this practice? If a company is becomes insolvent, release all of it's IP to the public domain, dissolve all patents/trademarks, and sell off physical assets to pay debtors (first of which should be former employees IMO, but that's a separate discussion).
Edit: I think my original intention of the post to kick off some interesting discussion has worked. Thank you to all current and future posters!
16 votes -
"We have capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich" - Mark Blyth
13 votes