It’s all virtue signal at this point
Surreal to watch someone scroll instagram these days and like various things moving past on the conveyor belt.
Those taps are literally doing unpaid work for Meta.
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I think this is a fair way to net it all out. Part of me wants to say “I don’t use it as a virtue signal,” but if I’m really honest, no matter which of the above ways I’m using likes, they’re hollow.
As someone said elsewhere in the thread, replying with a simple emoji is at least a bit more POW.
I’m baffled how polite acknowledgment has suddenly turned into mindless virtue signaling. Replying with an emoji is now more “valuable”than clicking a 🤙 button? Let’s all just do whatever feels like an appropriate response.
Above all, voluntary, yes.
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Does a 10 sat zap carry more weight than a 50 sat zap? If so is your ability to show appreciation proportional to your income level?
I assume you mean the opposite: 50 > 10. This gets into a slippery slope discussion about equity and equality, but ultimately, yes. Short of some relative weighting, the larger amount of capital expended carries more weight.
I don’t think you can read that deeply.
Some people might make 5 big zaps per day, someone else on equal resources might zap 500 small zaps in the same day and both have equal totals.
It’s just fun. It’s just pennies.
It’s like throwing buttons at each other.
For now. But we know where those sats are headed in fiat value.
They’re only worth something if we disperse them.
That is the riddle.
Certainly, but either way, and no matter the currency, more money is more money. And this carries weight in a given trade.
That’s not always true. Let me give a real world example.
Oil.
Every year the world consumes 36bn barrels of crude oil. This is approx 1 cubic mile of oil.
If the world produces 37bn barrels of oil (3% too much) the oil price is $40. The value of the cube is $1.5 trillion.
If the world produces 35bn barrels of oil (3% shortfall) the oil price is $110. The value of the cube is $3.85 trillion.
The smaller cube is worth a lot more than the larger cube.
This is why we have wars.
Interesting, but I’m not sure oil = user generated content holds in this case.
👍 are fiat, ⚡️ are hard value.
obviously, if the shareholder is the customer, the user has to be somebody else in this construct
bring real value back to people creating🫣