It's an interesting idea, but I think it'd discourage spending rather than encourage it. Currently we attempt to encourage spending by rewarding users more when they tip larger amounts to good stories ... which should incentivize spending while not forcing them to.

Imagine, the price of beef was now 300x more expensive. You'd buy chicken.

k00b

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Should an upvote be a fraction of what someone stacked over a period of time? For example lets say your upvote was 1/100 of what u had stacked in a month. Then you could upvote 100 other posts before being net negative. It would make the large stackers give back more, and the small stackers a chance to catch up :)