shazow
@shazow.eth
As a society, I believe we should optimize for two things: 1. Stability: We want an environment where people and ventures can make long-term plans with confidence. 2. Wider allocation of wins: We want "more people get lots of little wins" instead of "fewer people get a rare big win"
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boscolo.eth
@boscolo.eth
How do you propose to achieve #2? (I agree with it as a goal) Typical SV equity distribution seems to be one of the core contributors to “fewer people get a rare big win”
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shazow
@shazow.eth
This can improve in many forms, for example: - we can improve safety nets so more people are able to take more entrepreneurial risks (eg not tie healthcare to employer) - we can encourage more smaller local investments instead of fewer larger investments (by naming is cheaper/safer/more tax advantageous for people to make their first small investments, such as by incentivizing cooperative structures) - more incentives for using small local upstarts rather than megacorps who can afford to subsidize their way into monopolies - in MEV sense, that can mean breaking up large lucrative transactions into lots of small auctions where one player can't win them all I think these opportunities are all around us, we just have to train our eye to identify them
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boscolo.eth
@boscolo.eth
This is a good start. wrt safety nets: One of the best safety nets would be to encourage multi-generational households. It's a far more efficient use of housing resources and doesn't require a change made by the Gov. Removing the employer's role in providing healthcare would be a huge unlock for more entrepreneurism. Giant missed opportunity by the Obama admin.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
I'm generally a fan of encouraging communal living and communal resources (IMO overindexing on biological families can be toxic). Would be great if there were really cheap and easy to manage legal structure templates that people could use to do this. Right now it has to be a private corporation with a bespoke contract agreement and some conflict resolution for dissolution, easy to make mistakes and very expensive to litigate. A "chosen family" or collective should more easily and safely finance and purchase a building to live in together, for example. My high level feel: If the state is going to enforce taxes and laws, then it should also provide for desirable baseline use cases.
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