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cost to scam > /flows earnings

it should be a no-brainer to participate honestly in /flows, because you can earn substantially more just doing a good job

capitalism/markets already work this way. how do we bring that same meritocratic upside to public goods?

bringing the makers together 

/vrbs /flows

imo markets might lead us to a better answer

it should work like this:

1. apply for funding doing something you already love + have proven track record working on

2. AI helps synthesize your impact, give tips how to improve, catch people who stop building

3. instead of trying to constantly play a game of cat and mouse w/fraud systems, make /flows the biggest upside thing you're personally working on

how? not exactly sure yet

any ideas?

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basically what i'm thinking is this:

projects have an option to "create startup" which:

- sets up a flow managed exclusively by project creator
- sets up new token on bonding curve representing the project (project creator gets like 30%)
- token sells out after $10k invested?
- gives them a basic money management view where they can start new streams to "employees", pay bounties etc.

lets the project expand beyond single player mode, gives upside to creators, lets projects build invested fanbase, and if denominated in TCR tokens it strengthens entire flows economy

@curtiscoffee.eth wdyt sir

thinking we need to bring the same sort of upside we see in other parts of crypto to /flows builders somehow

wild chat with o1-pro 

https://pastebin.com/rSLE40WF

it already sort of works like this via long term earnings from your /flows salary eg: you want to keep doing a good job so your salary isn't cut

but it's no big upside that grabs people's attention

current thinking is we use AI models to grade/verify impact. i think this is good to weed out underperformers + spot obvious slackers

but grant farmers will just use their own AI to stay ahead of the curve

feels too much like we're trying to over-police things / catch fraud. that's important, but don't think it's a final solution and doesn't feel very positive sum to me

paying folks $nouns could help with this a bit

the reason i have 100 grant updates on /flows is because its one of the highest upside things i'm working on

how true is that for all the other builders on flows? maybe only the ones where the US dollar goes a long way

good /flows get good rep and are useful to local communities

more people ?? (vote for the flow, donate to the flow, speculate on the flow??)

builders continue making impact, competition inside flows breeds excellence?

good products/services get good reputation / are useful for people

more people pay for them

creators continue making them, competition breeds excellence

basically i think without some huge new incentive re-write people are always going to be profit maximizing things that don't help the common good

how to get people to earn the most building public good? speculation seems the best crypto tool we have so far hmm

don’t have answers but this is the correct line of thinking imo