Re: Suggestion for using DIDs to solve the 'group payment for public goods' problem

This is an extremely difficult problem that some in the communities I
attend have devoted years of work to. My favorite of these kinds of
inquiries is The Digital Life Collective https://diglife.com/ It's a
work-in-progress trying to address this multi-faceted problem.

I'm not in the same boat as Kaliya and Heather but, like many of us working
on decentralized tech, I'm hoping to benefit from collaboration with
like-minded folks including diglife.

Adrian

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:43 PM Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net>
wrote:

> Dear CCG,
>
> In the text, this section of this week's discussion looks like it was
> quite difficult—about fair compensation for work done—and I have a
> suggestion, given afterwards.
>
> On 2018-11-16 7:03 PM, kim@learningmachine.com wrote:
> > Heather Vescent:… in our conversations, everyone has an idea of how you
> should
> >    do it
> >    ...snip...
> >    ...
> >    … but I can't, the last time I did that, I was exploited. I'm
> >    traumatized by this now
> >...snip
> > Heather Vescent: Right - so why don't we work together to ensure
> >    this doesn't happen. Why can't we work together to solve this
> >    problems for us all?
> >
> > Manu Sporny: I think the issue is that we don't know/how/  to
> >    solve the problem, heathervescent.
>
>
> Ironically, this problem—fair compensation for digitized work—was part
> of the reason I joined Web Payments in the first place.
>
> And I think asking for it to be solved now, before DIDs exist, turns
> it into a chicken-and-egg problem.
>
> That is, Heather and Kaliya would like to be fairly compensated, but
> so would Manu, and many others; including people working on digital
> things that have nothing to do with DIDs -- except that when DIDs
> finally exist they may help solve the problem.
>
> So, it seems to me that Kaliya and Heather have three options:
>
> 1. Suggest to the main DID code-writers -- some of whom,
> interestingly, have said they also would like a bounty for their work
> -- that a possible bootstrapping could occur if a DID method was made
> especially for the purpose of collecting money for the development of
> DIDs. In other words, all the people who would like to 'crowdfund'
> such an effort -- the code-writing and the evangelizing materials --
> would then be able to do so through a functional DID system. People
> would create DID Docs and contribute money through the system, and the
> system would allow them to allocate it and track where the money goes.
>
> I don't know if such a system is possible yet; or if it is, it's
> probably hard to make. But the stakes are high: the people who could
> make it work might be able to both be well-compensated, and
> demonstrate what DIDs can do, rather dramatically.
>
> or:
>
> 2. Organize other people into the formation of one of the existing
> types of governance of our world, specifically to promote DIDs with:
> crowdfunding, or a non-profit society, or a corporation. Then the
> directors of such an organization, or the members of it, could vote on
> whether to purchase your existing report, and release it.
>
> or:
>
> 3. Do volunteer work only; as much as you're comfortable with. And
> wait. Probably eventually DIDs will exist.
>
>
> Steven Rowat
>
>

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