Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks

Re:Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks by demetrius on Sunday August 14, 2022 @05:20PM (#32463034)

Yeah, I was really surprised at the idea to equate the number of followers with wealth, and calculate inequality of this wealth distribution

Like... Followers are people with their own agency! Even if they tend to read someone more often then the others, you can't treat this in same way as the wealth distribution

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Re:Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks by satyrnein on Sunday August 14, 2022 @06:56PM (#32463890)

Libertarians would argue that wealth inequality is the natural outcome of consumers exercising their agency. I recall one asking why progressives are obsessed with income equality but not trying to address inequality in number of sex partners.

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