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I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. Wikipedia works thanks donations. Voluntary donations are the free market libertarian equivalent of involuntary taxation
by jokethrowaway 4y ago
I'm not sure I follow your reasoning.
Wikipedia works thanks donations.
Voluntary donations are the free market libertarian equivalent of involuntary taxation.
Web3 doesn't work because there's not enough value being provided, party because paying micro transactions is too unfriendly.
That's a hard problem and it's lack of success is a clear demonstration of the market working as intended and not rewarding something useless.
The socialist equivalent is a government owned web3 which we all have to pay with taxes and we're increasingly close to getting this.
- lyu07282 4y agoPeople volunteer on Wikipedia, they write and edit articles, they do content and user moderation, etc. Everyone can edit Wikipedia, everyone can make a Wikipedia account, there are 42 million registered accounts, nobody is working and spending their time on Wikipedia for monetary gain, how does any of that possibly work and work so incredibly well? According to everything libertarians believe this should be completely impossible and yet it works, because libertarian, free-market and neoliberal ideology is WRONG.
- simon04 4y agoNobody except for paid editors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3APaid-contribution_disclosure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3APaid-contribution_... andhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing#Editing_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing#Editing_services