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-Economic policies: eg. In-game asset supply, balancing mechanisms

Ward Cunningham talks with Bill Venners about complexity that empowers versus complexity that creates difficulty, simplicity as the shortest path to a solution, and coding the simplest thing when you're stuck.

Importantly, Apple likely cannot create a similar model. Apple isn’t a big interoperability fan.

While some of these organizations may have started with purely financial motivations, I suspect that most of their founders aspire to build communities that can replace some of the social capital that America’s waning institutions once provided.