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I think that you are confusing two things. An airdrop with "free money" and an actual experience with community points and collectibles (like badges) that you m

• floren 6y ago
  People currently pay Reddit real actual useful money (dirty fiat) for stupid shit... so if they instead say "You can buy these things for Posting Points, earned whenever you get t3h upd00ts", well, I expect people in poor countries to start posting like mad in the hopes of getting Posting Points which they can resell to Americans and other people with more money than sense.
  • nathancahill 6y ago
    I think I saw that episode of Black Mirror.
  • lobotryas 6y ago
    Sounds like gear and gold grinding services for popular games/MMOs in Asia in decades past.
    • dane-pgp 6y ago
      I wonder what happened to the people running those MMO gold farms...? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/steve-bannon-world-of-warcraft-gold-farming.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/steve-bannon-world-o...
  • mschuster91 6y ago
    > well, I expect people in poor countries to start posting like mad in the hopes of getting Posting Points which they can resell to Americans and other people with more money than sense. For what it's worth, that actually happened but with real money instead, there were entire local economies in Macedonia and other countries simply financed by the advertising income of "fake news" sites: https://money.cnn.com/interactive/media/the-macedonia-story/ https://money.cnn.com/interactive/media/the-macedonia-story/