Ownership Economy
exploring alternative ownership mechanics
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Ownership Economy
If you make a cooperative, you have to know that you can’t design them; you can only grow them, like plants. If you grow one and you do it with other people, then everyone will undoubtedly have ideas about what the best way to grow it is.
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
@cdixon: Web2 is built on advertising. Big companies like Facebook and Google make most of their money on advertising, and many web2 startups build their customer base using advertising.
For products to work at scale they need sustainable business models and networks. Would love to see more discourse in web3 about the complex financial incentives conflicts that we’re going to see if the movement goes beyond DeFi/trading-related use cases. A few examples👇
Artist ownership is the way to fix Spotify’s broken streaming model (guest column)
Music Allymusically.com
Web3 aims to expand ownership re: A) economic upside &B) governance. IMO:
A is underrated—Giving upside to >1000x more stakeholders can disrupt the network effects of aggregators
B is overrated—There'll be some positives, but we'll experience the downsides of unclear leadership
