Sublime

Starting from scratch, it is possible to establish a set of good ground rules (his examples range from traffic congestion charges to marginal cost pricing for electricity, and of course include legal protection of property rights).

a natural way to fund public/supermodular goods without relying excessively on the limited knowledge of administrators is for such an administrator, philanthropist, or public authority to match contributions by distributed individuals.

Earn less, spend less, emit and degrade less.

On Dan’s graph, there is an optimal point: the exact right amount of organizing control (regulation, platform structure) where individual and collective interests are aligned. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. People choose to conform (participate) for their own sake or at least for the benefit of the whole. But past this point, indiv

many of the social functions that community structures once fulfilled: security, dispute resolution, and the allocation of collective social capital.

to propose tools, social practices and collective data custody arrangements that allowed them to “collectively bargain” with their data for cooperation with government and private actors supported by the PDIS-supported program of “data coalitions” to address civic problems.

The Institute was the unacknowledged realization of Thorstein Veblen’s original call (in 1918) for “a freely endowed central establishment where teachers and students of all nationalities, including Americans with the rest, may pursue their chosen work as guests of the American academic community at large.”

the critical necessity for conflict resolution, energy production and storage, collective action, identity, and redistribution of resources.