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by CuriousCosmic 2983 days ago
With regard to stuff such as decentralisation of electricity I find it an interesting topic to try and formalise a method of determining how to support all the necessary infrastructure.

For example, a flat tax on transactions would likely not work well. Alternatively could you base the tax on the regions or even the specific routes taken to transmit the power.

With that, if you were basing fees on the routing, obviously rural and long distance routing would be penalised. How does one compensate for that and guarantee that low value infrastructure(rural) is properly maintained? Additionally, how would such a system address determining new infrastructure additions?

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this might be a too complex topic to discuss properly here

imo you address two things here very well

- who pays for infrastructure

- how do you do governance

imo the second one could be solved if you decided how you want to do the first one.