Hmm, @dantheman
There is a success-story from China where they made the Huaxi-Village by combining the interest of the communist-party with the interest of the people and made a successful compromise.
Steemit only need to enable revenue streams for the SP-Holders in order to become as successful as the Huaxi-project.
No matter how you turn or twist the ideas - outside - cold hard cash - in streams of revenue is always necessary to succeed.
For Steemit that would be:
- enable advertisement on blogpost-level in 50/50 split between SP-holders and Bloggers
- enable steemit.com/games with in-game purchases in SBD and STEEM
- enable Job-Platforms like Upwork.com and Fivver.com and pay them in SBD with a 10% rake to SP-holders.
- gambling is already happening on steemit.com - let´s make it so that in the future SP-holders earn a rake on those bets as well.
- and 100 other revenue streams that can be enabled.
People want and need something to do - we don´t need basic income which takes from the productive and give to the unproductive. That is the kind of policies that have crippled my country Norway where the "Norwegian Dream is to be on permanent welfare before the age of 36".
Happy Philosophizing :)
In all friendliness,
@fyrstikken & @fyrst-witness
This list of ideas will be of great benefit to all! (vote for @fyrst-witness !!)
Your concerns about basic income are valid, but there is an additional dimension to dan's idea that would very effectively mitigate the 'population of welfare bums' problem. You see, those people who get handouts, 'know' they are getting handouts - they know they are a drain on the system, and that the system is not designed to sustain them. This causes a psychological/motivational problem, where the individual begins to identify themselves as a worthless beggar, and their behavior follows accordingly.
Dan proposes fair distribution of the spoils of a successful economy, which would motivate people to participate, rather than causing them to identify as bloodsucking outsiders, which leads them to becoming exactly that.
It's very interesting!