politics

my hottest take is that society can run on voluntary taxes if we align incentives properly and make the process transparent

incentivizing things @ poidh.xyz - come chill /poidh + follow @poidhbot

Anand Giridharadas has a book on this topic, with a bunch of consolidated data. Volunteer taxes, charity, philanthropy don't really work. It's cynical but also the reality.

What alignment are you referring to, that could hypothetically make it work?

needs to be 100% transparent who funds what and who accomplishes what so people care about building their reputations as funders or accomplishers

also need a solution that allows people to fund things without losing control of their money, they should have a say in whether or not the task was done to their standards

I've thought about this issue a lot and it's the problem I'm trying to tackle with poidh: https://paragraph.com/@poidh/poidh-v2

re: previous studies saying it doesn't work, the reason it doesn't work is the steps above can't be accomplished with fiat (crypto is uniquely capable of letting us or organize to get things done in a decentralized manner)

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Power consolidation=evil.

I think transparently aligning the reputation to the contributions is a great idea. Also poidh seems really cool 👏

Seeing how selfishness is tolerated even today and how money can be used to build reputation (see Musk & others), I remain skeptical of unenforced contributions.

The leftist argument for enforced taxes isn't based on some vague "fairness". It's based on the fact that the wealth is built indirectly but precisely and proportionally to the usage of collective infrastructure & services. That's what we mean by fair share.

One thing I agree with Reagan on

People are selfish! (But it’s bad)