Thinking about quadratic mechanisms (voting, funding, attention) thanks to discussion this morning. Might have been mildly nerdsniped
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Anyone tried something like quadratic consulting billing?
1st hour in a month costs $100, 2nd hour costs $200 etc. You can buy my entire 40x4=160 hour inventory in a month for ~100x160^2/2 = $1.28m (anyone? Bill? Jeff? Elon?) or 160 individuals each get a $100 hour for $16k
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seems like that implies that *you* prefer to spend each hour on a different customer than 160 hours on one customer.
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I prefer a mix. A couple of deeper clients at 10h/mo, plus a sprinkling of 1s and 2s.
Realistically I can’t work 160h without wanting to kill myself. 80-100h in a month is probably my peak limit. Median more like 40

