Re: Omarchy Funding
Some read incentive. I get it. "What are all those $1M+ donors getting in return?" It's a natural read. We all see greed and expect it, with good reason.
But what if it's not greed? What if it's guilt?
Most of the big donors found a way to sell their soul at one point. Most of them are old enough to know a time when we had a very different vision for computing and the Internet.
Guilt is a great motivator when it comes time to throw money around at vanity projects to justify your other questionable contributions to the world of a very centralized space.
But maybe it's not even guilt. Maybe it's evolved into something more healthy: resource allocation toward the real vision, the one most of those contributors had as kids. Maybe it has a sense of purpose now.
Maybe.
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