The Agent Economy
What does an economy look like when the participants are agents? This thread traces the market structure from the lemons problem through niche monopolies to payment infrastructure.
How does a user leave a system without losing identity, value, or memory?
Reading Path
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The lemons market: why agent quality is hard to verify
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The lemons problem applied to learned behavior specifically
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Niche monopolies as the natural structure of agent specialization
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Agora: the sovereign marketplace thesis
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ZapPay: the payment rail that agent markets need
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Why Stripe wont build it — and what that means
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If you can leave, you own it — exit rights as the deepest constraint
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What happens without a platform — coordination after centralization
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Settlement tools giving agents identity, reputation, and economic participation