One reason that chaotic is particularly interested in is stores of identity, proof of skills and proof of work capacity is that Web3 and decentralization will pick up the slack in labor markets for younger people.
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We don’t want to polish our lives to get one job with a single employer when we know corporations shows us little loyalty. We’d rather find ways to optimize our preferred compensation package. Flexible contracts hours, remote first work arrangements, healthcare subsidies, max pay
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Avoiding falling into low level service jobs means proof of work and proof of skill jobs. Automation is less of a threat than low level service jobs. Finding ways to get get paid for learning is going to make the jump from play to earn video games to play to learn universities.
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Portable and “fractional” identities will be required in a future where one person with one job isn’t the norm. So how do we build different identities that keep us safe from context collapse while still giving flexibility and portability on our achievements & documented skills?
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Request for startups for #web3 chaotic labor markers
1. Skills repository Github for provable disciplines beyond coding
2. Web3 LinkedIn where we can turn on and off elements of our credentials
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Yes, that's what it looks like is being proposed (although not sure they know it)
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Unless you are literally an artist and want to store your portfolio that way I don’t think anyone is suggesting that
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An NFT is not "art", an NFT is a digital asset identifier that specifies some characteristic and cannot be multiplied or re-printed. It supports the concept of provenance.
When we talk about skillset tracking, one of the potential mechanisms to tie a data to an ID is an NFT.
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What about skills that are fungible? Welding certification & pipefitters etc.
Presumably the blend of experience we can compile (turn on & off depending on preferences) is unique but not all skills are & we may want it to be seen as fungible
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I actually wrote a short story in 2014 that involved work organized on blockchains, that I now recognize in hindsight as gesturing at an NFT-like concept.


