[wallacoloo]

you’re criticizing this approach, but twitter and reddit matter. how do you get 10000 people to each give $2000 to a project over the course of 3 days? no startup, no matter how good their product, pulls that off without a strong marketing team. most fail even with traditional marketing.

how do you sell to the millenial/zoomer audience? memes. you make it a social experience. you create not just shared governance over a document, but an entire community around it. organize events like watch parties, etc. especially covid era, creating communities is more valuable to certain groups than is creating an incrementally better search engine.

[holonomically]

I don't understand what you're arguing. I don't find meaning, value, and substance in memes and digital communities structured around DAOs. I'd much rather be involved in some real world community that is working towards solving some tangible problem instead of wasting my time speculating on pixelated NFTs or buying something that already belongs to every citizen of the United States.

[zachmx]

I think you're missing the point. What if it became a meme to collectivize around a DAO that meme-ifies fighting climate change? Would that be something that interests you? A good example of someone that already altruistic things for the world and makes it fun is Mr. Beast on youtube.

For instance on a quick search I found this video of him rallying a bunch of people to clean an extremely dirty beach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV2gBU6hKfY

Humor and productivity don't have to be mutually exclusive. Maybe humor and fun is the way we get the average person to engage in collective action and do things that everybody thinks are impossible otherwise.

Maybe you could use your imagination a little bit to potentially think about why something like ConstitutionDAO might have larger implications than "it's just another ponzi-scheme. Or fall in line with the rest of Hacker News that fails to see how real people can benefit from an interesting technology.

[holonomically]

Please explain to me how real people are benefiting from buying something that already belongs to them or how meme-ifying a global existential crisis is beneficial. I mentioned in another comment that I find the crypto community to be childish and seeing things like this does not convince me the community is mature or sensible enough to tackle real problems.

Madagascar is currently going through a humanitarian crisis. Millions of people are facing starvation there and are likely to perish from it [1]. Is anyone in the crypto community trying to coordinate and organize some kind of humanitarian aid for Madagascar? Because if they did that then it would prove to everyone that this technology could be used to affect meaningful change for people in the real world.

1: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148636/drought-in-m...

[zachmx]

This specific copy of the constitution doesn't belong to the people, it is privately held and being auctioned. But if you are talking about the ideas of the Constitution belonging to the people, then how is that any different than the ideas of the blockchain and cryptosphere belonging to the people?

That's the beauty of ConstitutionDAO, it is quite literally proving that we have new ways in organizing and collectivizing. As a signal of that they are buying the constitution so that the people can take back what is rightfully ours. It gives people the freedom to try and solve new and complex problems in new ways.

Memes are the rallying cry of Gen-Z. DAOs are just a tool for organizing. The crypto community may not be ones to rally for Madagascar and I'm not expecting them to! But, DAOs give YOU the power to try and rally the people so we can do something. Rather than trusting you to manage the funds, the collective can trust the smart contract and vote on how they want to approach solving the problem, which professionals they want to delegate to to solve the problem and so forth.

This is so much more than trying pump shitcoins or ponzischeme. This is about allowing societies to collectivize in ways they never have before. You and your neighbors want to start a solar coop? DAO. A neighborhood is lacking the funds to support the local schools? DAO. The county wants to try and build a water treatment plant because they can't get funding from the Fed/State for clean water treatment? DAO.

DAOs will exist in all shapes and sizes and for different causes. Some will fail and some will succeed, but that's how innovation goes. While the technicals behind how these things will develop is still up in the air, this is the Netscape moment for crypto and nobody on Hackernews can come up with any other sort of justification for it not working other than it's a Ponzi Scheme.

[holonomically]

How many of those mentioned examples are real projects at this time?

[zachmx]

None, but those are just a few I had the imagination to come up with. If you fail to see the value, you will at some point. As Jeff Bezos has been quoted saying, "Your margin is my opportunity." and opportunity right now is ripe.