I'm not really a gamer, so I don't particularly care if it's gamified or not - just needs to be possible for us regular working folks on a very tight budget to participate in. I'd actually be more interested in something "deliberately intentional" rather than "game-like"...
I think we're all gamers in the sense that Josh is referring to it, if I may be so bold. The game layer makes whatever you're doing more engaging through incentives and motivation. We’re designed and programmed to respond to game elements. Life is a game, and so is our social media landscape.
But I get Free Human’s point. What’s missing in this post (from my perspective) is any way to disintermediate the almighty dollar from this process. As long as the plan is to aggregate capital and use that capital to pay ‘specialists’ to do whatever work needs to be done, you’re stuck in the old paradigm that excludes people who don’t have cash to spare.
The solution, IMHO, is to allow people to participate in the development of the project directly, rather than just pooling their money and paying someone else to do it.
I’m not saying that no cash is required. Some things just cost money, like web servers, SaaS apps, etc. But those costs are nominal compared to the real cost of any project, which is getting people to engage with it. That’s the problem to solve — how to get that shitload of people Free Human mentioned to invest their time and focused attention into a project.
In South Africa there are rural aid societies where everyone in the farming community pays a small amount monthly say US$10 and the co-op will provide loans, startup capital, accident assistance to the members. As far as I remember it was grandfathered in as legal though it would not have passed modern regulations and it does not get mentioned in the media except rarely. It has a common name that escapes me right now.
Find a way to make the $25/month one legal and a whole shitload of us are all in. We just ain't got $10k for your fancy secret one...
What if we gamify it?
I'm not really a gamer, so I don't particularly care if it's gamified or not - just needs to be possible for us regular working folks on a very tight budget to participate in. I'd actually be more interested in something "deliberately intentional" rather than "game-like"...
I think we're all gamers in the sense that Josh is referring to it, if I may be so bold. The game layer makes whatever you're doing more engaging through incentives and motivation. We’re designed and programmed to respond to game elements. Life is a game, and so is our social media landscape.
But I get Free Human’s point. What’s missing in this post (from my perspective) is any way to disintermediate the almighty dollar from this process. As long as the plan is to aggregate capital and use that capital to pay ‘specialists’ to do whatever work needs to be done, you’re stuck in the old paradigm that excludes people who don’t have cash to spare.
The solution, IMHO, is to allow people to participate in the development of the project directly, rather than just pooling their money and paying someone else to do it.
I’m not saying that no cash is required. Some things just cost money, like web servers, SaaS apps, etc. But those costs are nominal compared to the real cost of any project, which is getting people to engage with it. That’s the problem to solve — how to get that shitload of people Free Human mentioned to invest their time and focused attention into a project.
I address this point in more depth in the article I just posted at https://open.substack.com/pub/mentorofaio/p/people-power
In South Africa there are rural aid societies where everyone in the farming community pays a small amount monthly say US$10 and the co-op will provide loans, startup capital, accident assistance to the members. As far as I remember it was grandfathered in as legal though it would not have passed modern regulations and it does not get mentioned in the media except rarely. It has a common name that escapes me right now.
Sounds like the concept of “stakeholder capitalism” that tptb are trying to implement through “The Great Reset”