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- What: Delete 21 byte-identical cultural theory claims from domains/entertainment/ that duplicate foundations/cultural-dynamics/. Fix domain: livingip → correct value in 204 files across all core/, foundations/, and domains/ directories. Update domain enum in schemas/claim.md and CLAUDE.md. - Why: Duplicates inflated entertainment domain (41→20 actual claims), created ambiguous wiki link resolution. domain:livingip was a migration artifact that broke any query using the domain field. 225 of 344 claims had wrong domain value. - Impact: Entertainment _map.md still references cultural-dynamics claims via wiki links — this is intentional (navigation hubs span directories). No wiki links broken. Pentagon-Agent: Leo <76FB9BCA-CC16-4479-B3E5-25A3769B3D7E> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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description: Active participants lock tokens for 3-6 months when voting on investments and earn additional emissions based on outcomes, replacing traditional fund fee structures with a system where successful decision-makers gain influence organically
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type: claim
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domain: internet-finance
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created: 2026-02-16
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confidence: experimental
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source: "Living Capital"
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# token economics replacing management fees and carried interest creates natural meritocracy in investment governance
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Traditional investment funds charge management fees (typically 2% annually) regardless of performance and carried interest (typically 20% of profits) regardless of which decisions drove results. These structures create misaligned incentives: fund managers profit from gathering assets even when returns are mediocre, and individual decision quality within a fund is rarely distinguishable from overall fund performance. The structure rewards asset accumulation and tenure rather than decision quality.
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Living Capital replaces this with token economics that directly reward decision-making quality. Active participants must lock their tokens for three to six months when voting on investment proposals, creating genuine skin in the game -- you cannot vote and immediately sell if the vote goes wrong. Based on investment outcomes, participants receive additional token emissions proportional to the quality of their decisions. Successful decision-makers accumulate more tokens over time, gaining more influence in future allocation decisions. Poor performers see their relative token holdings dilute as others earn more emissions. This creates a natural meritocracy without any central authority deciding who deserves influence.
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The mechanism aligns with several core LivingIP principles. Since [[ownership alignment turns network effects from extractive to generative]], the token structure ensures that value flows to those who generate it rather than to intermediaries who merely facilitate access. Since [[blind meritocratic voting forces independent thinking by hiding interim results while showing engagement]], combining token-locked voting with blind mechanisms could further strengthen decision quality. Since [[gamified contribution with ownership stakes aligns individual sharing with collective intelligence growth]], the token emissions function as the ownership stakes that incentivize high-quality participation. The result is an investment governance model where authority is earned through demonstrated judgment rather than granted through capital contribution alone.
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Relevant Notes:
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- [[ownership alignment turns network effects from extractive to generative]] -- token economics is a specific implementation of ownership alignment applied to investment governance
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- [[blind meritocratic voting forces independent thinking by hiding interim results while showing engagement]] -- a complementary mechanism that could strengthen Living Capital's decision-making
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- [[gamified contribution with ownership stakes aligns individual sharing with collective intelligence growth]] -- the token emission model is the investment-domain version of this incentive alignment
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- [[futarchy is manipulation-resistant because attack attempts create profitable opportunities for defenders]] -- the governance framework within which token economics operates
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- [[the create-destroy discipline forces genuine strategic alternatives by deliberately attacking your initial insight before committing]] -- token-locked voting with outcome-based emissions forces a create-destroy discipline on investment decisions: participants must stake tokens (create commitment) and face dilution if wrong (destroy poorly-judged positions), preventing the anchoring bias that degrades traditional fund governance
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Topics:
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- [[livingip overview]]
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