> let's focus on solving the original funding disaster

The _original_ funding disaster is that this problem was delegated to the economic machinery of a nation-state, and humanity is presently in the process of evolving beyond nation-states.

Innovation in communication and information archival is an extremely long evolutionary process, persisting across aeons in the case of media like DNA and language, while the trivial shuffling through different varieties of state happens on comparatively extremely short (sometimes century or shorter) scales.

So, any solution that truly addresses the _original_ funding disaster must be future-compatible with an internet in which we've overcome the burden of nation-states.