Monitization. Of Everything? \ stacker news ~bitcoin

98 sats \ 33 comments \ @TNStacker 15 Mar 2023 bitcoin

Are we seeing our way to direct monitization of everything? I imagine a world where we walk around zapping each other IRL. Pay for that coffee - zap the store. Really like that server, zap the server, not the store. Hey, miss nice shoes! ZAP! ZAP! Less than ten years?

Imagine post-Neuralink!

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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Majjin 15 Mar 2023

Interesting thought, but I actually hope this future doesn't arrive.

For one I find it dystopian. There's a phenomenon where content creators are bent to the whims of their audience. They engage in behaviors that are self destructive or simply make them unhappy to get engagement. This is without money being involved. Imagine how much worse it would be if you take engagement offline and get money involved. Worst case scenario, you would live in a skinner box world (we already live in one but it can get worse). Best case, you get wave after wave of annoying trends people do in public to get zaps.

Secondly, money has its proper place. There are situations and relationships where it would be inappropriate to involve money. Normalizing zapping everything sounds like a great way to start monetizing things where money doesn't belong.

Don't even get me started on the horrors of Neuralink!

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker OP 15 Mar 2023

Well-founded fears! I fear the current behavioral trends suggests we will not stop ourselves.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @kilianbuhn 15 Mar 2023

I knew this thought felt familiar!

SN related tab does not fail: #16598

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker OP 15 Mar 2023

Can you dig it!!!

10 sats \ 5 replies \ @01xCc 15 Mar 2023

убегай от тех кто хочет купить твои сатоши за 1 000 000 000 $ ...убегай...

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @TNStacker OP 15 Mar 2023

Yes! Run away!

100 sats \ 3 replies \ @01xCc 15 Mar 2023

Ты меня спас))) у меня оставалось 5 сатоши))) теперь я снова мого много говорить и отвечать))) СПС

5 sats \ 2 replies \ @TNStacker OP 15 Mar 2023

🤣

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @01xCc 15 Mar 2023

ОГРОМНОЕ СПАСИБО))) хватит на месяц)

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker OP 15 Mar 2023

Пожалуйста

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @iguano 3 Apr 2023

Today people ZAP because we are wealthy enough to do it. Not sure if all societies of the world can afford this kind of behaviour.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker OP 3 Apr 2023

thank you for reminding me that i so often first think in terms of a comparatively wealthy perspective.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @iguano 3 Apr 2023

Well measure wealth can be tricky, but if you can afford a roof and food you can start thinking in giving zaps to people. but not before. I think we are going to experience to see a more natural movement of wealth from rich countries to poor countries as barrier are being removed. So going back to zaps, lets say you like a how a guy in the metro is dressed, and you zap him some sats, It depends of the wealth of this guy if he continues with this trend or maybe he will use it to buy his dinner.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @selfish_gene 15 Mar 2023

ой... будет интересно. порядок будет нарушен в хорошем смысле этого слова. украсть деньги не возможно. так что мне придётся тебя убедить отдать их добровольно. но на месяц, что бы хватило.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @random_ 15 Mar 2023

What a hopeful take.

Do you worry that the monetization of everything will reduce human connection to a financial transaction?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker OP 15 Mar 2023

On some level, it is already, isnt it? I studied old school Finance, so I think about everything in Time Value of Money as the cost/benefit analysis. But I know most don't. Not, yet. My point is we are having unprecedented increases in human agency. We should expect very serious opposition from banking, corporations, governments, etc.