Tribes and networks
WTF are these? I have never heard of them. Sounds fishy but I don't have time to definitively debunk.
Wikipedia for example creates a lot of value with being structured as a network.
Wikipedia is a ultimately a hierarchy where certain committees of high-power admins get the final say. Also, wikipedia isn't really like an economy - the product types (articles) naturally match 1-1 with the producers (experts on that subject). There aren't any intermediate products or supply chains. As a resource allocation problem, wikipedia is trivial.
WTF are these?
I linked to David Ronfeld's paper laying out the terms.
The resource allocation that happens at Christmas is tribal in nature. People don't receive gifts because they pay money to receive a gift. They don't receive gifts because a hierachy organizes who gives whom a gift.
YCominator says that one of the biggest benefits of being a YC company is the access to YC alumni. YC alumni feel that they have a tribal obligation to help new YC company.
When programmers on stackoverflow help each other that value exchange is a network. Most of the val...
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