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Replying to @hamishmckenzie
It's good for creating market making, but long-term it's not entirely healthy because it encourages status-loaded micro-patronage motives over less loaded transactional motives. There's a reason restaurants don't give you free steaks and charge for the bread and water.
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Replying to @vgr @hamishmckenzie
Sustainable long-term economic relationships tend to limit status gradients. Patronage motives take you closer to Patreon type cultures, where eventually audiences begin to expect political payback.
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