Network capital is vastly overrated/overvalued relative to financial and knowledge capital. People waste too much effort acquiring it
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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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This is neither good or bad, it's just how network capital actually works, same as other kinds: surplus protects itself with boundaries
