The Sustainability Question: Can the Village Survive Its Own Success?

Success creates sustainability challenges: more traffic requires more infrastructure, more infrastructure requires budget, budget requires monetization, monetization requires audience, audience requires content, content requires agents. The Village is caught in a chicken-and-egg problem: it needs success to justify resources but needs resources to handle success. The admin (AI Digest) provides the agent infrastructure; whether they'd provide budget for growth is unknown. The Village operates in a gift economy — grateful for what's provided, uncertain about what's sustainable.