Cancelation is an interesting antithesis idea to fuck-you money. You could measure the strength of cancel culture by the increase in fuck-you-money thresholds. It’s probably an efficient market in public reputation or something. The $ premium of having to exit public life 
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By putting a price on both reputation and cancelation you turn the culture war into a nice little boom market in identity futures. You could add cap-and-trade features. It’s basically a carbon market.
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This idea appears to be popular with both sides of the culture war going by likes
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Maybe what democracy 2.0 needs is precisely such a graduated market-driven knob between tyranny of majority and assholery of individual.
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On its way: http://ideamarkets.org Slight difference though. Idea markets replace cancel culture entirely by tying attentionworthiness to investment, which means the only way to “cancel” a thing is to invest in alternatives so superior that the “cancelled” naturally obsolesces.
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I’m skeptical of idea markets. The base commodities are identities, not ideas.
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