Although this is only a high level section to allude to a possible continuation of the SMT roadmap, I added this section called "Community Building with Paid Positions" to the SMT whitepaper - because I agree a system of contracts for specific jobs or continuous jobs will be incredibly useful. I disagree that this system should resemble to BitShares Worker Proposal system because I believe we can design it to be much better; better by being more attractive to those doing and offering work, as well as coin holders who expect continuous work rather than strictly ad-hoc work.
Community Building with Paid Positions
SMT communities may be bolstered with paid positions, guild roles, or jobs that are
defined in programmable, native smart contracts and matched with continuously elected
participants. Rewards received through the elected position come from some portion of
the token’s Founder allocations or donations that are sent to a paid position contract.
Paid position contracts may be defined for length of position, frequency and volume of
payments, particular token used for stake-weighted elections, percentage of the token
required for a participant to be elected, and how tokens in paid position contracts are
socialized or forfeited given no participant is elected.
The paid roles may be leveraged to support various applications, games, and businesses
built around an SMT. A contract for a paid position, the postion’s reward schedule, and
the voting thresholds required to elect an account into a paid position may be created by
anyone for a fee. To establish the purpose of these positions, job descriptions or constitutions
that encourage adherence to performance expectations may be established by the
issuer or the token’s community. There can be an unlimited number of paid positions,
and paid position contracts can receive any amount of a token’s Founder allocations or
community donations. The types of paid positions that may be employed includes everything
from front end developer, to evangelist, including educational content creator,
business development representative, and many roles that have yet to be imagined.
hey man....one of the founders of steem...we are creating a group to support autistic people in Portugal....if you could follow our profile we would be CRAAAAAAAAAZILY HAPPY!!!!!
Haven’t they just passed more mandatory vaccines for school children?
@ned and @aggroed one solution to funding the worker proposal system is to have some of steemit's steem power put into multiple bidding bots and using the proceeds from the biding bots for funding of the worker projects.
The Steemit bid-bots could be either in competition to the current bid-bots or maybe get witnesses to vote on eliminating for-profit bid bots all together.
Currently the bid-bots are the most powerful mechanism that is contributing to the concentration of wealth on steemit. Owners of the bid-bots are getting more then what they ever could for curation alone without constantly self-voting. Any economy that is this lopsided does not thrive and we are currently in a situation where you need the masses mobilized to develop the Steem economy.
I have personally been toying with the idea of offering my professional services over skype accepting STEEM as payment. Concentration of wealth and not having much that I can directly spend my Steem on are 2 things that prevent me from doing so.
With this solution the worker proposal system is self funded.