However, the Passion Economy has issues. First, platforms make constant updates that impact a creator’s earnings potential (ie: Instagram removing the “likes” metric). In addition, as social media platforms grapple with the complex challenges of censorship and free speech, there is real risk to creators of being de-platformed (ie: Zerohedge from... See more
It is one thing to think with a pamphlet, another to think with a newspaper, yet another to think with a televisual image, and still another to think with a meme.
Diseases have global networks of stakeholders: Imagine a new insulin treatment funded, governed, and owned by diabetics. Our marketplace connects researchers with patients to enable this.
If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
Crypto enables global permissionless crowdfunds. As long as you have an Ethereum address and some ETH, you can participate. This opens up the opportunity for people all over the world to raise money for any creative project.
The better — but much more difficult — solution is to attack epistemic cronyism at the root, i.e., in the way others judge us for our beliefs. If we could arrange for our peers to judge us solely for the accuracy of our beliefs, then we'd have no incentive to believe anything but the truth.