Isn't it obvious that we should attempt pure donations first and then try for more aggressive forms of funding if it's warranted?
Would waste more time and then eventually require another hardfork to build an agressive form of funding. History has proven that free-will donations aren't as effective when some people do not take the burden on their shoulders to promote it. That's additional work and i'd rather people just went about their normal work and let the whole thing automate itself. Someone proposed a different approach by taxing stakes proportionately (which might also be a great option given that there are a lot of huge stakes that aren't being used for anything at all). Your take?
My take is that steem-problems-can-t-be-fixed-with-hard-forks
There is no reason to be hard-forking Steem for this.
Steem needs to be simpler.
There is no excuse to tamper with the foundation of the platform simply to allocate funds somewhere.
The entire point of second layer tokens is to fund these side projects.
Any talk of reallocating money on a fundamental level is automatically going to lead me to believe that the people in charge are trying to siphon more money to themselves.