Been thinking about this for a while—the incentive structure on crypto platforms is completely off. When you've got a user base spread across different economic zones, where content creation alone can be a decent income source, the game theory just breaks down.

The majority of active users aren't necessarily optimizing for quality or authentic engagement. They're optimizing for whatever pays the bills fastest. That creates a race-to-the-bottom dynamic where the platform gets flooded with low-effort content. The rewards aren't calibrated to what the ecosystem actually needs.

It's a classic misalignment problem. Until platforms rethink how they distribute value and incentivize meaningful participation, this asymmetry keeps compounding.