In traditional firms, the incentives between users, employees, and owners are often not clearly aligned. When a token on a global blockchain is the business model, incentives are no longer muddled by legal entities, jurisdictions, and business models that conflict with the best interest of the users.
We could do something called the American Equity Fund. The American Equity Fund would be capitalized by taxing companies above a certain valuation 2.5% of their market value each year, payable in shares transferred to the fund, and by taxing 2.5% of the value of all privately-held land, payable in dollars.
To bring projects like the one described above to fruition, new infrastructure is needed that borrows from open-source software communities and beyond. You can imagine a range of tools, including recruitment and application management, process mining to identify new discrete stages in the creative process, and sophisticated forking tools.
Advertising seems like some fat vampire squid sucking value out of everything, while from the inside it feels like being stuck in the dilemma of giving away an expensive service (run by people in your company who don’t give a shit about ads and frankly would rather they disappear), and flaky advertisers who are always one bad quarter away from... See more
The web’s first era was about information flowing freely—think Google giving you access to the world’s knowledge. Most of us were passive consumers in this era. The second era was the social web—Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. People began to create their own content, and that content became the lifeblood of the big platforms. We became active... See more