[a wide character looks smug with a wide smile]
Your ideology is wrong and can’t work because “human nature” is to exploit others
[a thought bubble is connected to their head]
I really really want to exploit others, exploiting or being exploited is the only way I can picture society please God I play that you let me become an exploiter I dream of it every day
Like using other people or their conditions in a social setting to benefit yourself. Think of like how desperate people on the internet are to be seen saying the correct things in front of the correct people.
Or the phenomenon of dunking. When you dunk on somebody on the internet you’re extracting a social value from them. It isn’t as easy of a thing to do IRL or before the internet age but here we’re operating in a marketplace of attention. Capitalism has infiltrated our very social interactions so we act like capitalists even when there’s no money involved.
How is this measured?
Vibes mostly. Tracking karma like reddit encouraged people to act like they’re in a market but it wasn’t a real measurement in any way other than affecting the sort of posts and comments. I suppose if you wanted to put a number on it it’s probably the number of people a given interaction reaches. Or maybe the amount of time people spend engaging with it.