what is defined as “value” is subjective to viewers. Having a metric counter is gonna want people doing anything to get more attention, more zaps, more financial incentive.

The positive is that this helps cater to wide scope of content-based gig economy - influencers, writers, musicians, photography, artists etc.

Unfortunately the attention seeking psychology impact won’t be resolved by zap as it’s a form of reward scheme. The good thing is that there is no algo-based system that enables businesses to abuse this impact and thrive on it.

But we should always revisit this topic and have debates like this because it’s going to provide a check and balance to see how this influences society esp younger generation.