>>20236269i had an idea for a dating app/volunteering app based on choose your own adventure books and treasure hunts/quests once, designed to incentivize building connections with people based on shared interests instead of treating them like merchandise/dopamine hits like tinder
imagine if the government decides it wants trees to get planted or literacy to increase you could get rewarded for planting trees. if they're trying to get people off drugs, reward them for going to AA groups and therapy appointments and pissing clean. users could get like coupons/local currency tokens for doing stuff they are interested in that also helps the community. it matches you with people that are also interested in the same stuff
(there is a body of academic research behind driving behavior with incentives named contingency management btw)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6095117/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/add.12589https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01581.xhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740547221002828https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07853890.2022.2068805https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20200305.965186/incentives are how you drive behaviors in systems, viewed from this angle many of society's problems stem from our misaligned/perverse incentive structures (designed and implemented by people with cluster b personality disorders/demons in their brains)
blockchain-based tools like smart contracts and digital tokens/wallets provide the perfect system for delivery of these incentives too. this is the shit we could build if everyone in crypto/"web3" wasn't exclusively concerned with scamming the shit out of each other and reinventing the web2 extractive silicon valley InQtel business model ("even BETTER targeted ads and datamining and subscriptions!")
