4 ms·
Yeah, me too. I actually thought of it as a sort of innovation-economic stimulus package and went "oh wow, this could work". Imagine the amount of innovation w
by instagraham 7y ago
Yeah, me too. I actually thought of it as a sort of innovation-economic stimulus package and went "oh wow, this could work".
Imagine the amount of innovation we'd get if this happened with hardware too.
But then I opened the article and was brought back to earth.
soon
- KitDuncan 7y ago> oh wow, this could work Sounds like you should give it a shot...
- codingdave 7y agoI'm intrigued that you thought such a plan could work - I don't see that, but I'd like to. Could you elaborate on what you had envisioned?
- munfred 7y agoSame. I have this fantasy where I wonder: what if all software became public domain, and you reward creators based on the GitHub stars a repo has, weighted by something like page rank? Then I realized this could be extended to anything where there is a platform for rating the content creation, from books (Goodreads) to arts (deviant art) to deeds (Facebook and Twitter). Then my friend told me I had reinvented Whuffie, as presented in the book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom... The main problem with this idea is that the money for paying creators would probably have to come from the government, since who else would pitch in to support this? But hey, people talk about universal basic income, this is like a weighted version...