Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
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- To publish a web document or software application is more than making something public: it’s an act of making a public
- So it’s clear that defining the scope of the public is key to understanding what public goods will mean.
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Public goods are non-excludable and non-rivalrous, but more importantly, they are objects that satisfy values that are shared.
- We can only hope that one of crypto’s externalities will be to raise the expectation for transparent and easy-to-use participation in local governance.
- Applied to public goods, credible neutrality suggests that there ought not be any privileged class of "citizens," that all should stand to benefit equally.
- one way to manifest positive externalities is to consider the success of others as your own.
- Public goods are enacted by social institutions that reproduce patterns of behavior in the public interest. Crypto
- The opportunity in front of us is bigger than any one protocol. In today’s world, capital is not scarce; ambitious visions for the public’s benefit are.