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Max Borders: | |||
"The DISC framework differs considerably from a UBI in that it’s designed primarily as a system of mutual aid instead of a system of redistribution. | |||
This is important, because DISCs: | |||
* Are emergency measures, as in a form of insurance that kicks in when needed, reducing perverse incentives; | |||
* Are decentralized, so that they can’t be used as a massive lever of central power; | |||
* Don’t require politics, so they can be voluntary and self-organizing; | |||
* Are affordable, because they target isolated needs; | |||
* Are supportive of community, because they operate embedded in human fractals and reputation systems; | |||
* Can be relativized to various regional and individual economic circumstances; | |||
* Can be built in tandem with DACs and DAOs, or so that people can get income support between gigs, say, in the fluid blockchain labor marketplaces of the future; | |||
* Can be configured a mutual-aid system in which the community surrounding a person validates the need and stakes reputation capital on such validation; | |||
* Use reputation as a currency of trust; | |||
* Scale with displacement and poverty without being monolithic. | |||
While we are only at the genesis of the decentralization and polycentrism revolutions, the world is moving away from monolithic social systems. Instead of thinking about how we can outsource our sense of responsibility for each other to distant capitals, let us think about how we can create and join systems that, eventually, allow us to become the social safety net." | |||
(https://medium.com/social-evolution/how-we-become-the-social-safety-net-2994a68a53db) | |||
=More information= | =More information= | ||
Revision as of 06:51, 7 September 2018
Description
Max Borders:
"If a distributed autonomous organization (DAO) is a decentralized way of coordinating activities to create value (upgrading the traditional firm), then the DISC is a decentralized way of coordinating mutual aid (upgrading traditional welfare). DISCs, like DAOs, will be voluntary, permissionless, and most likely ambivalent to questions of national origin. These cosmopolitan entities will bind people based on the desire to create better social safety nets, not based on accidents of birth." (https://medium.com/social-evolution/how-we-become-the-social-safety-net-2994a68a53db)
Characteristics
Max Borders:
"The DISC framework differs considerably from a UBI in that it’s designed primarily as a system of mutual aid instead of a system of redistribution.
This is important, because DISCs:
- Are emergency measures, as in a form of insurance that kicks in when needed, reducing perverse incentives;
- Are decentralized, so that they can’t be used as a massive lever of central power;
- Don’t require politics, so they can be voluntary and self-organizing;
- Are affordable, because they target isolated needs;
- Are supportive of community, because they operate embedded in human fractals and reputation systems;
- Can be relativized to various regional and individual economic circumstances;
- Can be built in tandem with DACs and DAOs, or so that people can get income support between gigs, say, in the fluid blockchain labor marketplaces of the future;
- Can be configured a mutual-aid system in which the community surrounding a person validates the need and stakes reputation capital on such validation;
- Use reputation as a currency of trust;
- Scale with displacement and poverty without being monolithic.
While we are only at the genesis of the decentralization and polycentrism revolutions, the world is moving away from monolithic social systems. Instead of thinking about how we can outsource our sense of responsibility for each other to distant capitals, let us think about how we can create and join systems that, eventually, allow us to become the social safety net."
(https://medium.com/social-evolution/how-we-become-the-social-safety-net-2994a68a53db)