Oddbean

I don't know if I get your point but I thought about a network of well interconnected devs, something like a school of fish constantly roaming over nostr. My hypothesis was that Nostr would give rise to natural elites that would be the first winners of the economic system of Nostr. Those elites would require developers to benefit from comparative advantages. The developers that helped the first elite would become elites themselves. This second elite would require OTHER developers and so on. But the success of this idea would only be possible if a large number of developers are well interconnected already

Who are those elites? Maybe I put the wrong name. When I talk about elites, I'm referring to the people that win the competition in terms of the law of supply and demand. I haven't seen anything that gets successful profits over nostr yet.

Sure, the elites today are not making money. But the power is already there. They just need to turn power into profits. It will be a lot easier for them than to any other dev. Elites are not necessarily good or bad. They will exist no matter what happens. The problem is to create the right free-market accountability to them. Usually that means different interest groups that are ready (have the legal and operational structure) to seize the elites place as soon as they make a mistake.

A pyramid scheme or Ponzi scheme is a strategy where the parties involved have to contribute money to a central party that then redistributes that money preferentially to the members with higher status or history in the system. It's a Zero sum Game and a scam. I'm not saying anything about ponzi schemes. I'm only saying that developers have to come together independently and try to reap the oportunities helping those who have money but don't have the time to sweep the informatic floor (just kidding)