Impact

If a Network Economy rewards contributions based on their impact on the network, what happens if multiple individuals worked on the contribution? How would funds be divided? And if all contributions are public, what happens if those who worked on a contribution also used other publicly available sources in their work?

The question we should be asking really is this: how can the funding distribution incentivize contributors to both maximize their impact, and be willing to make their products freely available to the public.

The answer to both of these questions seems to be distributing the funding based on the relative impact of each individual, as well as the impact of public sources that contributed to their effort.

Maintaining this distribution mechanism is in the interest of the Network and of contributors; the Network wants to incentivize open collaboration and impact maximization, and contributors want to make sure their work is compensated (even when others use it for their own benefit).

If we have Network Economies that reward projects for their impact on the network, & distribute funding based on everyone’s relative contribution to the project (incl. rewards to existing resources used), what we're dealing with here is a new economic paradigm.

Imagine a group of devs building an open source app for the network. Each dev gets paid based on their relative contribution, & the devs of dependencies get their share based on the importance of the dependency to the project. 

Other devs can then permissionlessly build on top of the code – getting rewarded by the network, and original devs getting rewarded as well.

You're essentially creating an incentive structure where no one needs to worry about IP or keeping proprietary code anymore.

Everyone just needs to focus on developing things that would benefit the network the most, and collaborating with others in the open to maximize the impact; this is true for open source software, but also for science, medicine, and all other public goods

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