How to use social capital
2018-04-30
I have talked about how monetary capital goes away when you spend it, knowledge capital doesn't go away when you spend it, and SOC requires a knack for using it, but if you use it well, it increases. #Money goes away when you spend it. https://gyazo.com/76542a9f0872524c9040cba168e9afe5
When there is a demand D and a supply S, value is created by an intermediary M who knows both and causes them to combine.
In the case of commodity trading, M corresponds to the market.
In that case, the commodity is separated from the producer and distributed independently.
However, knowledge, especially knowledge in the sense of solution capability rather than information, cannot be distributed separately from people.
Similarly, for a variety of reasons, demand on the demand side can often not be distributed in isolation from the consumers
Therefore, there is a type of transaction in the world in which neither a market in which "suppliers display their products and consumers buy them" nor a market in which "consumers post jobs and suppliers apply for them" can be used.
Just as markets create value by creating lubrication for commodity transactions, so providing lubrication for that type of transaction is value creation. In this case, the intermediary M is the supplier in the form of matching value provision. https://gyazo.com/d7e3df19b60a8de34b0d1182654a9aef
If we design the system so that intangible capital is attracted to M in exchange for providing that value, positive feedback will turn around.
What are the conditions and how to design them are the current concerns
I think it's a requirement that after the D and S transaction occurs, there should be an increase in Happiness for both parties.
Because trust in intermediary M will decrease if the transaction does not lead to a positive outcome.
Therefore, the act of introducing S to D, to anyone, lowers D's trust.
On the other hand, if you introduce a not-so-good D to S, it lowers S's trust in you.
relevance
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