In the broader economy, it’s not the case that “If buying things reduced your income, people stop buying things, and eventually money stops flowing altogether”.
So the only way that makes sense to me is if you model content as a public good which no user is incentivised to contribute to maintaining.
Speculatively, this might be avoided if votes were public: because then voting would be a costly signal of one’s epistemic values or other things.
In the broader economy, it’s not the case that “If buying things reduced your income, people stop buying things, and eventually money stops flowing altogether”.
So the only way that makes sense to me is if you model content as a public good which no user is incentivised to contribute to maintaining.
Speculatively, this might be avoided if votes were public: because then voting would be a costly signal of one’s epistemic values or other things.