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Life · Ratio check

Am I Being Ratio'd?

In any ongoing arrangement — employer, landlord, platform, or service — is the other party extracting more value than you are receiving?

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Ratio check

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Answer five questions about what you provide, what you receive, your exit options, and which direction things are moving. Podge returns: roughly balanced, moderately extractive, or structurally extractive.

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Formula used

Extraction score = return received + exit difficulty + power balance + trend direction

Worked example

Minimal return, difficult exit, entirely their leverage, getting worse = structurally extractive. Fair compensation, easy exit, balanced power = roughly balanced.

Common questions

What does being ratio'd mean in this context?
Being ratio'd here means the arrangement generates significantly more value for the other party than it does for you — and is structured to maintain or increase that imbalance over time. It borrows the social media meaning (more replies than likes, indicating the post is disliked) and applies it to ongoing relationships: the other party is extracting more than they are returning.

Is a power imbalance always extractive?
No. Power imbalances are common and sometimes inevitable — early career, new to a market, or entering a competitive situation. The question is whether the party with more power is using it to extract value beyond what is proportionate, and whether the trend is getting better or worse. Structural extraction is the pattern where the imbalance is used to increase the extraction over time.

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