Libro Werde

[alberto]

@iouxo

An open, high trust and low risk digital society has a huge amount of resources “floating in the air” . It is possible to utilise these resources for free, or almost for free.

I am trying to put this in economic terms that I understand… you seem to be saying that information is a pure public good, and in Libro Werde it is used as such (no or limited IPRs). This would indeed be a source of efficiency, but it needs to resist to the tendency of greedy people to “digital enclosures”.

@iouxo

Depending on the situation, fulfilling any task is rewarded with advances in virtual rank (like levels in a game), money, or tokens that function similarly to money but are more suited towards re-investment into self development or project development.

This reminds me of the novel Freedom TM by Daniel Suarez (we also reference it in the Sci-Fi Economics Lab wiki). Have you read it? Is it what you have in mind?

@iouxo

Granularity is also about efficent use of space . The boundaries between relatively monolithic domains such as the home, shop, restaurant and office become fuzzy. […] the efficient use of time , which in turns has implications for ownership. It is much more resource efficient to share than to own.

These are interesting components of the microeconomic elements of LW, and it makes sense that they would drive some kind of efficiency. Do you have an argument why this happens in LW, and not in our societies? After all, people are the same, both on Witness and here on Earth.