Unwitting Collaboration and Web3 Experimentation

Author:: Packy McCormick Link:: https://www.notboring.co/p/unwitting-collaboration-and-web3 Tags:#media/article NFT dao #web3 unwitting collaboration

• Summary::
  • currently no way to reward unwitting collaborators[*](unwitting collaboration) for their contributions to your ideas or work. web3 enables the infrastructure for this with the blockchain and enables a lot of crafts that have relied solely on labor as a means of making a living to use capital as a means to make money. Because money is baked into a transparent process, it is like open source with money baked in and people who contributed to the source of the idea get skin in the game
• notes::

  • Most people who “collaborate” on a piece don’t do it intentionally or synchronously. They are intentional creators of their own piece, and **unwitting collaborators **on future ones. This unwitting collaboration plays out over weeks, months, years, or decades. Someone contributes some idea to the universe for its own sake in the present, and then in the future, someone else picks that idea up, riffs on it, and creates something new by combining that existing idea with other existing ideas and some personal sauce.

    • remix everything cycle of riffing but this is healthy, how do you structure tip so its not a huge barrier and only few people get lion’s share? questions ^grMaPKRaO

  • Instead of being paid as labor - write, make money; stop writing, stop making money - ideas become capital, making money for their owners even while their owners sleep.

    • [[labor vs capital]]… capital is what created the wealth inequalities of today
  • argument is just that its another model to earn a living not a wholesale replacement

  • Speed is possible because building on-chain is like open source with money baked in. Builders are able to take products off the shelf, write a few lines of code, and combine them into new products.

    • speed is a big benefit of this,

  • Spending time learning about and playing with Web3 has asymmetric upside. It’s like playing around in the early days of the internet, except that you get rewarded for just playing. You don’t need to build the next big thing. Participating in the right community, buying the right NFT or social token, or backing the right protocol early brings intellectual __and __financial reward.

    • the last part is what rewards “insiders” and people already with power… even though its theoretically “open to everyone” the regressive tax nature of the gas fees is what stops this from being a reality and keeps it in theory ^s8H6aw8Ft