[HN Gopher] Reciprocity as a Business Model
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       Reciprocity as a Business Model
        
       Author : enigmatic02
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2022-03-21 22:43 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
       | >As is often the case with tech companies, new business models,
       | like tipping in this case, play on ancient ideas and practices,
       | but make them many orders of magnitude more accessible and
       | scalable through software.
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       | The scale is the very thing that kills this model. With a small,
       | close community, there is huge societal pressure to live up to
       | your obligations, and not doing so has huge social costs to you
       | (you become isolated from your community). At Internet scale, you
       | no longer have the community to enforce social norms, and not
       | living up to your obligations may actually be lauded in
       | r/lifehacks.
        
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