You’ll often hear Bitcoiners say, “Only economic nodes matter.” Economic nodes do have more influence, sure, but non-economic nodes aren’t useless. Even running a solo node makes you more sovereign than someone who always relies on others’ nodes. You can verify the rules, broadcast your own transactions, more closely monitor updates, and in a worst-case scenario, help reboot the network with a full copy of Bitcoin’s history. View quoted note →

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I think you would need a contentious hard fork situation for this to be seen. Mining nodes would be able to see/determine economic nodes.
Plus, everybody starts somewhere. Young plebs may start with a personal node just for learning purposes, and years later run economically important nodes. Better to encourage than discourage this behavior, even if most never graduate beyond hobby nodes.