I want to understand the mindset and ideologies of people who think DAO is a good idea. Holding this belief is correlated with a lot of other ideas in particular, strands of right libertarian thought, and a heavy emphasis on technology and technocracy (i.e. government by technical expertise).

Beneath that though, i think there's an undercurrent of something that feels like misanthropy: a strong desire to replace political human beings interacting in order to resolve conflicting interest, reconcile conflicting experiences and pursue common interest with purely economic agents that interact with each other through free (read: mechanistic) markets and algorithmic contracts.

It feels like there is an unspoken need to be able to tell every human being who has a problem "too bad", and a need for a societal structure that is maximally ""rational"" and unassailable by human political action.

Obviously this would be a strawman if i said any particular person or group specifically held these beliefs. It's an amalgamate of various ideas I've seen pop up in the same places at the same time. Call me a skeptic of any thought that leans in this direction.