[friendzis]

> This would take advantage of human psychology that we like being part of something bigger than ourselves. > And it would hopefully have the emergent property that news that people feel is actually valuable gets spread more widely than useless junk.

There are at least two additional emergent properties:

1. That would essentially put a ceiling on revenue per article.

2. Articles close to the unlock threshold would be much more likely to get funding, opening huge space for manipulation.