A Theory of Everything for Zaps?

> don't the separate considerations for each territory divide them into separate silos?

Yes, more than currently at least

> So far, I pay much more attention to the post than the territory it was posted in.

Me too and I think that's a problem. Territories shouldn't just be tags. They should feel like a community of which you are a member of and help to build and grow. But we've been so busy on wallets this year, we hadn't had time to improve territories to get closer to this vision ...

> If the system incentivizes me to zap only in ~econ or ~booksandarticles or whatever, I have less reason to engage with anything else

The system incentivizes you to participate where you zap, but it doesn't mean you can't zap+participate somewhere else, too.