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> In the future, it’s likely that the average person will not work for a company. Instead, people will earn income in non-traditional ways by taking actions such as playing games, learning new skills, creating art, or curating content.

Who's going to clean up shit off the sidewalk and who will they work for? The janitorial DAO?

Vacuous bullshit that shows zero regard for how crypto in its current manifestation is an ecologically disastrous scam.

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> Who's going to clean up shit off the sidewalk and who will they work for? The janitorial DAO?

Simple! The janitor will be a willing market participant who wears a visible QR code with their wallet address, and passers by can voluntarily tip them if they do a good job. 90% of the tip goes to network processing fees, but that's actually a feature!

It's like a libertarian fever dream.

Always was.

What you’re describing is an anarchist’s dream - libertarians have a range of what they consider appropriate government involvement in life, but by and large agree government is needed.

Seriously. As in, like "wow".

Right from the very first sentence -- absolutely deranged.

Couldn't agree more, disappointing to see this kind of crap here

I only posted it because it's from Andreessen Horowitz

Y Combinator spams Hacker News enough as it is.

P.S. - I know Y Combinator created and maintains Hacker News, but I am confident that in a post-capitalist world an even better version of Hacker News would blossom in the hands and interests of the public at large, much in the same way that open source would.

It's basically sponsored content. They've sunk a lot of money into crypto projects so its general partners will write gushing articles about how DAOs, NFTs, "Web3" are all the future.

Did the same with Substack last year. Post after post about the power of newsletters. If they were so powerful, why does Substack have to offer exclusive publishing deals to well-known reporters and writers?

Same for agriculture, transportation, &c. Who's going to create the game you play ? Maintain the servers ? Build the guitar you want to learn to play ? Manufacture your pencils and paint for your new hobby ? Who's building the hardware to mine your cryptos ?

These people are living in a bubble inside of a niche and are addicted to wishful thinking. They don't understand that their crypto dream is fuelled by by-products of capitalism, aka people too rich for their own good spending their money on virtual casinos in the hope of amassing more. They're so disconnected from reality and the real life of most of earth inhabitants, I'm speechless...

This article seems to have been written by a guy who graduated from college 3 years ago and whose only work experience is at Bain consulting.

>These people are living in a bubble inside of a niche and are addicted to wishful thinking.

Have you considered that maybe they don’t actually believe this nonsense?

> Who’s going to clean up

How far into the future do we have to go before outdoor roombas proliferate?

To be fair, I have a lot of similar concerns for Universal Basic Income.

Raising a generation of leeches

Poor people.

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