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I get the point that some jobs are boring and need actual materialistic motivation to be done but... I'm absolutely sure someone would design one out of sheer
by ilyt 3y ago
I get the point that some jobs are boring and need actual materialistic motivation to be done but...
I'm absolutely sure someone would design one out of sheer annoyance with existing solution (if existing solution would be bad).
It would be interesting if system with very short copyright (say 3-5 years) would work. You'd still have leader's advantage for investing in development, but overall winner would be companies that can both innovate and fill the market and not just throw some ideas, patent them and live off people actually trying to implement them...
- scottyah 3y agoThere would be a perfect design for that one person, and everyone else would either do it themselves (not many could) or suffer
- SequoiaHope 3y agoActually I think the way this works is you have a series of forks. You will have a variety of weirdos who spend a lot of time on their fork of a design which is close but needs some tweaks. Regular people then can choose from a bunch of different forks with different pros and cons. This is similar to design and production in a capitalist system only it takes way less effort to design a similar but slightly different fork. Most vacuum cleaners are pretty similar but each company has to design their first machine from scratch and there’s a high barrier to entry for that. With forks, it’s easy. And we see with 3D printed objects that when someone is in demand you will have a popular option that a lot of people have downloaded, and then someone comes along and makes their own fork, and someone sees that and improves upon it too, and now you’ve got three options but only one person had to design it from scratch.