There are 74mm children in the US, which includes 45mm in low-income families covered by Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This means that children under the age of 18 make up over roughly 50% of all Medicaid recipients nationwide.
It is still really hard for Builders and Customers to find each other. If you don’t believe me, just look at the cost of advertising. In an efficient world, Customers and Builders would be instantly matched at low cost. Instead, companies deploy hundreds of billions of dollars on marketing each year.
But just as there are reasons why these design patterns won out, we shouldn't let survivor bias blind us to their inherent tradeoffs. The next wave of social startups should learn from the weaknesses of some of these choices of our current social incumbents
Since DAOs are blockchain-based organizations that usually are not tied to a corporate entity, they leave a lot of room for rapid experimentation in organization and incentive design. Members can collectively source an idea, funnel collectively managed resources toward shared goals, iterate, and ship with rapid speed.