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title: 🔭 In Search of Commons That Scale
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[](https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4375aa20-0390-4450-a02f-4ee3ce49e5e4_1812x700.png)
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The Common Citadel
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*The Common Citadel*
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> I will attempt here, to disentangle the way I saw Ethereum back when I first stumbled upon it, and how that train of thought drove me to commit.
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At the time, uneducated and barely out of puberty — I thought the answer was to burn it all down and start from scratch.
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[](https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9ffb8d3-9af3-4dfa-8747-9eb279c9d5d7_500x572.jpeg)
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## Quest
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It became my obsession to figure out why **exactly** the world is the way it is.
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My journey went from unfounded conspiracy theories to established truths, from _Marx_'s critique, to _James C. Scott_ examination of failed systems; from *Hayek's* critique of socialist thinking to more critiques of *austrian economics* thinking. Point is, I was spending ridiculous amounts of time (and I still am) at examining both propositions & critiques of mainstream as well as alternative economic thinking:
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My journey went from unfounded conspiracy theories to established truths, from _Marx_'s critique of capitalism, to _James C. Scott_ examination of failed systems; from *Hayek's* critique of socialist thinking back to critiques of *austrian economics* thinking. Point is, I was spending ridiculous amounts of time at examining both propositions & critiques of mainstream as well as alternative economic thinking:
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- What makes systems work,
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- What makes them fail,
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And although I was leaning closer to the “_free markets_” side of the argument, I was still certain that the conclusion “just pursue self interest” and “markets should be free” — is just not the way to go about…
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One thing that really stuck out for me was this concept of a “Resource-Based Economy”;
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In theory, it all sounded very nice — except the “_how to actually get there_” part was non-existent. Not to mention the illustrations of his Utopia made me anxious; would anyone actually want to live in a city that looks like this?
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Maybe, but somehow doubt it…
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> _“Holy shit, this is the software infrastructure for scaling those above the Dunbar’s number!”_
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[](https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf3f527c-0a0c-4d28-aca2-04ebf456e56d_498x280.gif)
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My mind was immediately 100% occupied by it.
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The possibilities of this single, decentralized, programmable ledger seemed endless.
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Of course reality is still far from the ideal we imagined it to be in 2015, but we're slowly getting there.
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## The Fuel
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[](https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc1c68f6-976e-4d79-9793-a894178d7f3b_800x565.jpeg)
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Tokenized organizations being crowdfunded; in theory results in a perfect alignment of incentives between investors and end-users — merging them into one.
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- And for that, we need a better sandbox.
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## Spaceship Earth — A Pale Blue Dot
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