Your Crypto Won't Get You Too Far
Continuing our series on what it would take for PricelessDAO to be an independent state (or Network State), the issue of a national currency needs to be addressed. Priceless Economics recognizes the absurdity of putting prices on everything, eschewing free market economics as the “best” way to manage an economy. Why a Monetary Currency? In fact, monetary pricing is completely outdated. Money used to be an important proxy. Humans needed it to indicate the trade value of things because it was i...
Your Crypto Won't Get You Too Far
Continuing our series on what it would take for PricelessDAO to be an independent state (or Network State), the issue of a national currency needs to be addressed. Priceless Economics recognizes the absurdity of putting prices on everything, eschewing free market economics as the “best” way to manage an economy. Why a Monetary Currency? In fact, monetary pricing is completely outdated. Money used to be an important proxy. Humans needed it to indicate the trade value of things because it was i...
One Purpose: Divided We Fall
For the purposes of a Network State, according to the author Balaji Srinivasan , there must be one, and only One Commandment, a moral innovation that sets this state apart from the existing system. It’s an appealing concept. If you just have one point of differentiation, one moral imperative, one unique selling point, as it were, you can rally enough people behind this concept and create your own digital Network State. Yet, as appealing as this concept is, it’s about as solid as the idea that...
One Purpose: Divided We Fall
For the purposes of a Network State, according to the author Balaji Srinivasan , there must be one, and only One Commandment, a moral innovation that sets this state apart from the existing system. It’s an appealing concept. If you just have one point of differentiation, one moral imperative, one unique selling point, as it were, you can rally enough people behind this concept and create your own digital Network State. Yet, as appealing as this concept is, it’s about as solid as the idea that...
Recognition? We don't need your recognition.
(Author: Grace Rachmany, co-founder, Priceless Economics / Voice of Humanity) One of the fundamentals that Balaji Srinivasan speaks of in his Network State is that the state becomes recognized by other states. We find that ironic, after his excellent and well-researched description of what happens to "recognized" states when they don't toe the line of the existing (US-dominated) order. As founders who live in Kenya, the Philippines, and the former Yugoslav Republic, we consider internati...
Recognition? We don't need your recognition.
(Author: Grace Rachmany, co-founder, Priceless Economics / Voice of Humanity) One of the fundamentals that Balaji Srinivasan speaks of in his Network State is that the state becomes recognized by other states. We find that ironic, after his excellent and well-researched description of what happens to "recognized" states when they don't toe the line of the existing (US-dominated) order. As founders who live in Kenya, the Philippines, and the former Yugoslav Republic, we consider internati...
PricelessDAO: It's not about a clean slate
Persecution, really. "We want to be able to peacefully start a new state for the same reason we want a bare plot of earth, a blank sheet of paper, an empty text buffer, a fresh startup, or a clean slate. Because we want to build something new without historical constraint." says Balaji. No, we don't. That is not why we are building PricelessDAO. This is the first of a muti-part series on our response to Balaji Srinivasan’s new book, The Network State: How to Start a New Country. To the b...
PricelessDAO: It's not about a clean slate
Persecution, really. "We want to be able to peacefully start a new state for the same reason we want a bare plot of earth, a blank sheet of paper, an empty text buffer, a fresh startup, or a clean slate. Because we want to build something new without historical constraint." says Balaji. No, we don't. That is not why we are building PricelessDAO. This is the first of a muti-part series on our response to Balaji Srinivasan’s new book, The Network State: How to Start a New Country. To the b...
