Would you mind sharing one example please?
A club membership where limited entry creates privilege and prestige. This can go right up to the level of multinational coalition. But I don't like your question because it doesn't speak to my point. People assume metcalfes law means the more people accessible to a network the more valueable it is. This is not metcalfe law. Metcalfes law is a formula that tells you how many possible connections can be made, the assumption that those connection imply value is asinine.
Think about a fax system. What that would imply is that the very last person in the world to get a fax machine adds the value times every single person in the world. But not everyone even sends faxes to each other and there would be no added value if we just start randomly faxing people.
metcalfes law is a measure of POTENTIAL value. Yet there is nothing to say the value could be filled. You could a water system for a city and that would create enormous value, but if you create 100 systems for the same city, you will cause more problems then you fix.
Notice Szabo use of the word potential and redundancies:
Metcalfe's Law states that a value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of its nodes. In an area where good soils, mines, and forests are randomly distributed, the number of nodes valuable to an industrial economy is proportional to the area encompassed. The number of such nodes that can be economically accessed is an inverse square of the cost per mile of transportation. Combine this with Metcalfe's Law and we reach a dramatic but solid mathematical conclusion: the potential value of a land transportation network is the inverse fourth power of the cost of that transportation. A reduction in transportation costs in a trade network by a factor of two increases the potential value of that network by a factor of sixteen. While a power of exactly 4.0 will usually be too high, due to redundancies, this does show how the cost of transportation can have a radical nonlinear impact on the value of the trade networks it enables. This formalizes Adam Smith's observations: the division of labor (and thus value of an economy) increases with the extent of the market, and the extent of the market is heavily influenced by transportation costs (as he extensively discussed in his Wealth of Nations).
http://unenumerated.blogspot.ca/2014/10/transportation-divergence-and.htmlRight, causes Ver's claim that increasing the tps and users implies more value is a childs view of economics. Like why can't we just print more money for everyone (sound familiar (hint bch)?)
Furthermore the big block agenda fights for the average joe, average joe brings very little value to the network compared to, for example, two nations that want to settle on the block chain. you need many many average joe's to matter value wise compared to international settlement. You can't weight the users the same.
If we used metcalfes law the way much of the community has misten it to be, you could just get everyone to start sending everyone bitcoins and we would all be rich because the price would skyrocket forever.