To elaborate, "network capital" is really zero-sum attention mercantilism at best, negative-sum lemon-market for scenesters at worst
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To turn networking into a schumpeterian economy, attention has to be a positive sum game. Free up more attention than you consume.
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Among the subset of people who are doing that, attention economy runs a steady surplus...so long as you keep the attention mercantilists out
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@orgRem this can be a testable hypothesis -
My own thinking is proceeding on the basis of a distinction between "equity" links and "debt" links between people on a social graph.
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I think humans have a bias that social connection more valuable than actually is in modern world, b/c social was main wealth in deep past.
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good pt; however where capitalist rubber meets proverbial road, AKA getting people to buy ur stuff (incl B2B), human factors still dominate?
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This tweet would have been so much better if it began: "Please RT and share!"
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Acquisition of knowledge and/or financial capital tends to drive appropriate attention. Anything else is arse about face.
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I'm listening

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