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   "text": "The platform's feedback loop is closed in the sense that there are no rent seeking owners: the system is entirely supported by its users and the users reap the entire profit.",
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   "text": "A healthy expertise tag requires that fees from new commenters buying in remain smaller in the long term than fees from outside business; otherwise the expertise tag is simply a pyramid scheme.",
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   "text": "Because decentralized platforms can remove the consumer fees that are integral to their centralized competitors, they also remove downward pressure on platform worker compensation, since costs are less likely to increase and be passed on to workers and consumers.",
   "abstract": "Removing such centralized fees also allows for the removal of downward pressure on the platforms' worker compensation as costs are less likely to increase and be passed on to workers and consumers.",
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   "text": "Computative Economics is not a generalization of digital platform economics, because platform economics extends Neoclassical Economics while remaining within its primitives, whereas the computative primitives differ and the equilibrium concept is recursive rather than competitive.",
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