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1/4 The Minotaur paradox 🐂 Did you notice how many Web3 projects try so hard to become perfect and user-friendly, but they endup overcomplicating everything? We usually point at the poor Web3 tech UX. But I feel that often what we build on top of this tech is even worse and could get the same criticism. I call this, the 🐂 Minotaur Paradox: Many enter the Web3 maze (for example, a DAO), but only those with better skills, knowledge, and time succeed. Just like Theseus. The Minotaur just eats the rest. Web3 tech makes us feel like Gods: we have an open sandbox to experiment with the human social layer, with people around the globe coordinating in a permisionless way. We can build anything! And this translates into a desire to create the perfect system. This desire to manage the chaos of human behavior and coordination inevitably leads to the creation of complex, multilayered systems, believing that we need that complexity to obtain a better architecture for our DAO, protocol or dApp. Continues ↓
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2/4 The Minotaur paradox 🐂 For example: 1. Complex governance systems, that require reading long documents and following multiple steps (including staking tokens with financial value to obtain voter's rights). Result: In many DAOs, only dedicated members take the time to understand the rules, most of the members become inactive while free-riders chase the easy rewards, leaving the system open to manipulation. 2. Economic incentivization, that promises a magical alignment of interests among all participants. This wishful thinking leads founders and leaders to adopt a one-dimensional view of their users (that is obviously inaccurate). 3. Tokenomics systems that often lead to centralization, favoring both the wealthiest players (plutocracy) and those with superior skills (netocracy). This trend pushes project leaders to try to fix the issue by implementing even more complex governance structures and economic incentive schemes.
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