And I left out higher-order economic concepts like opportunity cost and time preference and tradeoffs because I thought that'd be going over heads.... I think I love you @jrhughes!

​because however voluntary everyone says it is, I feel like a total asshole saying "no thanks" when everyone else seems so excited about these things<<

Thanks for pointing this out. And yes, I wanted to show that there are some very concrete, rational reasons for not traveling down this road - the biggest of which is that these contests don't solve the problem of URQC! They amplify the problem!