Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods

The nature of the medium of token ownership and unstoppability means we no longer need to extract profits to realize value creation. We can create ‘for-public’, with a new underlying value system that means the value created in Hyperstructures far exceeds any amount of profits that can be extracted in the immediate term, and can be recognized for t... See more

Without a long-term vision of the world we desire… how can we distinguish scaffolding from foundation? How do we know which paths lead toward liberation, and which perpetuate the status quo? This is my frustration with the majority of the “post-monetary” discourse. In general, I’m not interested in cryptocurrencies: I’m not interested in replacing ... See more

It is likely instructive at this point to be clearer about how exactly Ostrom defines a common pool resource, and how she distinguishes it from a “public good.” She writes, The relatively high costs of physically excluding joint appropriators from the resource or from improvements made to the resource system are similar to the high costs of excludi

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