Thread · 4 tweets · 28 Dec 2021

I think this is both true and slightly unfair. Participation in governance needs some form of stake. It's often based on things like "living there" where the stakes are clear (or would be if we had fewer nationalistic morons to contend with).

I totally get the thought that, hey, if we have something monetary, we can use that as a stake to anchor governance from. It's IMHO wrong, but it's not stupid. The heart of the problem is that we don't see that we have a huge stake in our online lives because we don't own them!

If we remember that we should own what we share here, that we should be paid for all that we create, that we should decide what gets recommended to us in search and social, etc. then it's obvious that we live here and that is reason enough to deserve voice.

Because infrastructure ought to be governed as a commons, it's the only way. Collective cognitive infrastructure just as much. Anyway, I could rant for a while. Bits of blockchain can be useful, but it's not cryptocurrency that we need.