Dan Romero on Warpcast

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How does Worldcoin plan to solve for people in wealthier countries not wanting to scan their eyeballs (because the UBI isn't meaningful enough)?

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Likely through a long tail of value props beyond the financial incentive For example, apps that require proof of personhood to use them, or voting schemes that require you to verify as a unique human Also early adoption of new technology often happens in developed countries b/c it is seen as high status

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Devon H. Dolan 🎩🔵🍖

Do you think UBI would work in a free market economy? Let’s eschew the whole token + eyeball silliness

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Connor McCormick

actually it could be a solution to the problem as much as it is a problem

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By getting governments to do it for them with KYC regulations

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I’ve been a UBI denier for a long time, starting to have a small view where I think it may be necessary. Outside of that, I think wealthier nations would adopt on the backend of poorer nations growing from such programs, if working as they intend, requiring from bottom up in economic classes.

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tiago sada pfp

the airdrop is not ubi itself during the beta people in wealthier countries are still excited to try crypto for the first time

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I am not scanning my eyeballs under any circumstances, this project is the bad place.

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Worldcoin is scanning eyeballs to no clue people in exchange of a couple of dollars in public spaces in Argentina, disgusting.

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sean pfp

Yea, resource allocation requires solutions from the bottom up, not from the top down. In order to accomplish these goals, the coin must represent commodity / material movements IRL.

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Idan Levin 🎩

Just like Bitcoin did to US institutions Bootstrap speculation from the low-hanging fruit, at some point you hit escape velocity

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I’m reading all this and am still wondering: but did you mint the first one? And I want the truth 😀 https://zora.co/collect/eth:0x6e60bcdf52078a250932cf9fec174c5f67348845

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The answer to this is also one of the main concerns about this long term - that most people in developed countries will be essentially coerced into scanning their iris in order to access certain financial services or networks

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Not sure it’s a necessary condition for network proliferation. WhatsApp grew faster outside developed countries faster than developing.

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Robin A. pfp

I live in a semi posh place in the UK -- they were here, no one scanned it. I sat there for 2 hours working in the background drinking my coffee just to see who would scan their eyes out of curiosity. I think this is going to be a topic of what AI agent you can make work for you and with you.

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Dan pfp

By ruthlessly restructuring corporate America and putting everyone out of work, leaving them with no choice but to submit to the Orb.

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Jackson 🎩🍖🐈‍⬛

This assumes the stated purpose is the actual purpose

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UBI paid in WLD will never be meaningful. The only way it could have worked is if they had built something that earns fee revenues like a wallet or rollup and redistributed those fees (in ETH or a stablecoin) as UBI. This is just dripping equity of what’s probably a security to people in exchange for their eyeballs

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I scanned to be part of the protocol. Wasn’t for the money. In the US you don’t get anything anyway right now.

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