Oddbean

Yes. Humans can not/should not live alone. If everyone built things for themselves, humanity would be so far behind. If I cook, you build stoves, someone farms, someone builds houses and someone generates energy. But if we expected a farmer to give out his yield for free, would he do that? A farmer's goal is to farm as much as possible, sell his crops, build a house, buy a stove and hire a cook. That's why, someone who is building a Nostr client needs to hire a frontend developer, a product manager, a designer and a quality assurance person. We need all these to succeed. Without a clear business model, we can't do anything of these things. I would say economic incentives are the biggest missing thing in Nostr. Donations don't scale well. It also misaligns incentives.

Agree. I like giving out grants and donating, but it's a very startup-y model. At some point, you should have paying customers, or you never achieve a broad, diverse market driven by customer needs.

Yep. And if your company has paying customers, you might have surplus. Who keeps the surplus? You need owners who build this machine. The surplus should go out as dividends. The owners can be the employees who built or the angels who funded it. This ownership needs to exist somewhere, not on NYSE but onchain. It feels like we are ignoring the very thing that brought humanity to where we are right now. Companies and ownership. The state is the culprit for inflating our money. The companies never did anything wrong. Why are we against companies? Can someone tag Jack?

Why Financial Regulations? Security and tech part is hard for sure. We were discussing a different problem related to building companies the other day. nostr:nevent1qqstnpv2u5swe3uzl7r4g8sgqh4u8907ed9xncy2cqhsgnsw9kkmg8qpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcpzpwe42kl97st2z7kzp59s0k83fvgnwyuaxwjvr4htfyumx2rknpfzqvzqqqqqqy0ws8k6