diff --git a/docs/how-does-it-work/phases-of-metagame.md b/docs/how-does-it-work/phases-of-metagame.md index 7a221787..461510d3 100644 --- a/docs/how-does-it-work/phases-of-metagame.md +++ b/docs/how-does-it-work/phases-of-metagame.md @@ -2,41 +2,58 @@ title: 🌒 Phases of MetaGame --- -Here’s a high level overview of how I see phases of MetaGame, [drop feedback here](https://forum.metagame.wtf/t/phases-of-metagame/147). +## **Phase I: Seed** -## **Phase I - Seed Phase** (The Decentralized Factory narrative) +> _Elon Musk: We spotted what appears to be an octopus at the edge of the Solar System. It looks like a baby but it's half the size of moon and it appears to be heading our way. Just 2020 things 🤷‍♂️_ +> +> Weeks later... +> +> _NASA: This morning we’ve received a distress signal. After mocking our information technologies, she seemed to have started sobbing; claiming to be lost and dying of thirst._ -This phase is all about: +The main goal of _Phase I_ is to build a hub for anyone interested in decentralized organizations & applications. A library of guides & portals to anything one might need to build them & a community of people to support them. -- Building the initial community. - The community of people strongly aligned with the MetaManifesto. The idea we should build a bridge between the high-tech world and the new-economics world, and use Web3 & other technologies to build a better world. One revolving around problem solving rather than profit seeking. -- Building the initial knowledge base. - The [Interspace](http://interspace.metagame.wtf/), built into a gamified connection making resource hub. With everything one needs on their path to building a technological solution to some of the problem our community or the wider world is facing, or unplugging from the global economy. +The meme of this phase is _A Decentralized Factory_; a collective of decentralized teams, churning out the building blocks we’re going to use to build a decentralized world. -We should focus on attracting as many disconnected idealists out there, and help them find their way & build whatever it is they want to build. -Other than the people, we should also be absorbing smaller teams & communities aligned with our ideas and doing cool things that fit into the bigger picture of what we should be doing. +### Goals: -The token is Seed, and it’s on a bonding curve. +- Build a community of people strongly aligned with the _MetaManifesto_. +- Set up the basic socio-economic infrastructure. +- Assemble the initial resource base. + -## **Phase II - Growth Phase** (The Web of Opportunity narrative) +## **Phase II: Growth** -This phase is all about expansions: +> _Gently, she descended into the Atlantic Ocean. We were worried about the oceanic life, but she assured us she only feeds on h2o & co2 - she doesn’t stop blowing our minds. First, her decentralized technologies, and now this? She might turn out more useful than we thought._ -- Making alliances with bigger organizations. - As we have grown as a community and built a track-record of doing cool things for the people, we should now be able to attract attention of organizations bigger than us. -- Build a global army game-changers & game-changing guilds applying pressure to any problem we are trying to solve. Far from being a Web3 community, this army is about using any cutting edge technology, from machine-learning to 3D printing. Far from being a technological army, this army is about using any means necessary to create a better world. -- Start building the 2.0 version of MetaGame. +Proven ourselves worthy; _Seeds_ grow into _Trees_ & we summon _The Great Flood._ +A wave of capital flows into MetaGame and it allows us to pay even more people to do awesome things - like grappling with the real-world issues. -Sometime during the _Growth Phase_, we should do a big fund-raising campaign. -So far I think it should be either a proper security token sale, or simply a land offering for guilds that want embassies or HQs on our Great Octopus. -If we choose the latter, the token should now be called “Skin”, as it will quite literally be skin-in-the-game (on the Octopus). Maybe “Apples”? Who knows we’ll figure it out in due time. +So we zoom out of crypto and start onboarding people from other high-tech, but also ecological & philanthropical communities; MetaGame starts looking more like a federation of guilds & alliances than one single community. -## **Phase III - Sustainability Phase** (The Web of Life narrative) +The meme is _A Web of Opportunity_; there is no lack of funding nor a lack of problems to solve. Anyone is able to just jump in, start solving problems & earning an income. -Of course we keep on-boarding people and guilds, but this phase is mostly about: +### Goals: -- MetaGame being a self-sustainable effort. Whether through subscriptions, fees or sub-projects, MetaGame should now be making enough revenue to stay afloat without relying on volunteering power. -- Focusing more on the real world problems. +- Summon _The Great Flood_. +- Spread tentacles into all high-leverage technologies. +- Start solving problems outside of crypto. + + +## **Phase III: Equilibrium** + +> _It’s been years since we spotted her drifting towards us. Her technologies helped us overcome coordination failures & her presence here turned out greatly beneficial for our ecosystems. She’s all huge & covered in greenery now; looking more like a breathing landmass than an octopus._ + +MetaGame now really _is_ a _massive_ online coordination game. By now, we have onboarder players & guilds offering anything one might need to live a rich & meaningful life through MetaGame. Now, there’s anything from co-working & co-living arrangements to ecovillages, being offered & even built through MetaGame. + +As the name suggests, MetaGame is no longer focused on rapid growth but sustainable growth in the state of equilibrium. It is able to thrive & grow without any additional injections of speculative capital. + +The meme of this phase is _A Web of Life_ - to support life as a whole. + +### Goals: + +- Support a mass of people in doing something meaningful & making a living. +- Onboard co-working/co-living spaces as well as off-the-grid farms & eco-villages. +- Get deep into ecological & philanthropic initiatives. If that’s what we’ve been doing by now, we should by now have built a big enough community to start tackling actually big problems such as global warming & poverty. - Solving real world problems cannot easily be made self-sustainable. This means we should be using our big MetaArmy to apply pressure to all the big corporations & rich people claiming to be philanthropists.