There's something I'd describe as a widespread tech-poptimist belief that if we just make all the right rules for the right exchanges, then we will cause all wrongthink to evaporate and the wrongthinkers will simply collapse out of a combination of isolation & embarrassment about their terminal wrongness.
This is a very strange use for networks of exchange, in my judgement. & while I do believe that discourse communities promote norms, I'm becoming skeptical about using networks to inject norms
The thing about networks of exchange is that they're financially based on trader-logic, and trader-logic is always pretty instrumental. The trader is allowed to move out of the home culture and between other cultures not because home culture has realized the universal decency of all people and cultures (these are the kinds of pronouncements of a priestly discourse), BUT because the trader comes home with shiny novelties.
