Quote from: novacadian on January 26, 2014, 11:51:25 PM

We share the same driver/interest, although my thoughts may drift more towards the dreamy side. Normally my dreamy thoughts have little merit in the saturation of capitalist concepts, short of some revolutionary or market crash event; which in recent history did not seem out of the question.

This project opens the possibility of such thoughts in a constructive manner. There are no strict guidelines that need to be enforced like we would find on Main St.. It is for that reason that my suggestion is to think way outside the box of Main St.. Not to mimic it but to take things where it cannot.

As to what that will/could evolve into would be some consensus found among this community.

...This would be a good thing in my opinion. However how one is rewarded is the issue where we could break new ground. My feeling is that this should be tempered with the main concern being for the developer not the end client. This is open source we are talking about after all. It is meant for everyone.

...Again a great idea on face value. To relate to this project then, in my way of thinking, some thought to fair and equitable payment should be a focus. Say I will clean your toilet for X dollars then someone else comes along that will clean it for Y dollars. We are into the old market system and the only winner is the one who owns the toilet and does not want to clean it themselves. Again, only imagine, that someone advertises that they will clean toilets and someone else advertises that they will also clean toilets. Perhaps then the users of the site could vote what they think toilet cleaning is worth and both would then have to do it for that price or give up toilet cleaning.

Again only an off the top of my head idea, yet hopefully an example of how we can approach this with not a race to the bottom but a race towards equity.

- Nova

Ok I see where you're coming from, you just want to change the world... I might not share your earthly 'politics', but when you take a spectrum and draw the ends together into the reality of belief structures then our views aren't so different. Where we might share a particular view is that I think devcoin is representative of acertain possibilities and slow changes going on in society's view of itself, finance, communities.

In the meantime I'm focused more on step-by-step, rather than the biggest picture. That doesn't make bigger pictures any less important, but I do relent to practicalities on the journey to progress.

'Fair and equitable payment': getting from A to Z alive is going to need a lot of fellow travellers, and much rests on balancing priorities with sustainability. I think markets work; not ayn rand markets but collaboration and economy. Getting them to work equitably for everyone. Well, that takes a step into charity or coercion or something else we haven't quite wrapped our collective human brain around yet. Could devcoin channel another way; well it's already different. Different now has to work. For a collaborative project to work in needs support.

So I look at gradual improvements as better than none, steps in the right direction.