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The core group that actually did the work had a Discord but I suspect most never even went there, and arguably that’s not the “place” but more like air-traffic control. I never went there, didn’t participate in whatever went on.
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Fair point, but I submit the lulz-contagion factor is both tiny as a fraction, and a weird artifact of concentrated dumb money. People with millions/billions in ether who are not used to managing money so are doing marginal crap. They’ll learn. Money eventually gets serious.
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You haven’t spent enough time in the midst of weird NFT project Discords — if your skin in the game is purely financial, and your identity is pseudonymous/anonymous, the lulz contagion accelerates
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This doesn’t mean utopia. We’ll just have new kinds of problems to replace culture war problems. For eg ENS delegation already hints at 80s style corporate proxy wars and shareholder activism++. Instead of Trumps and AOCs we may see a generation of Carl Icahn, Ralph Nader types.
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Charismatic Authority may be replaced by Operator Authority. People who master a due process theater. Every DAO a potential Senate-like zone where LBJ type operator-leaders win. Ones with a taste for the procedural mechanics. What charismatic leaders dismiss as boring detail.
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In the Industrial Age economy there’s a saying: “money is for poor people.” Real power and wealth is controlled by the crony-communism of the wealthy (why do they call it crony capitalism when it’s clearly crony communism?). In Web3, money is for latecomers.
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You can choose to look at it in a reductive way loaded with historical baggage. That frame is your preferred hostile-interrogative one, not mine. The mere fact of you using it doesn’t automatically make it a valid mental model. You’ve clearly already made up your mind.
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Nope, you’re drawing on historical analogies. I’m trying to just describe mechanisms and trying to see how they function without immediately damning them by association. And this tech is NOT the same tech you might have gotten into in 2009-11. I got in then as well. This is new.