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RE: Τhoughts on state use of blockchain in order to end governmental corruption. 10 Steem for each of the top 5 comments.
The Steem itself can be viewed as a social experiment of a 'state' where 'sitizens' do have an almost complete ability to distribute 'taxes' everyone is paying, and even to do that without any middleman aka 'goverment'.
( The 'Reward Pool' is actually rather a 'taxation' on every Steem holder)
The result of this experiment do not live much space for optimism, it looks like the desire to increase one own short term gains is so far ruling.
Dear @svamina, thank you for your comment. Humans are reward driven animals so it goes without saying that we are always going to pursuit gain. Whether it's long term or short term profit we seek depends on our personality. The whole crypto currency world was created on this fundamental need so I fail to see how the experiment has failed. Maybe I am an optimist but it's 2020 and I am still here trying to figure out how communities work lol 🙂
I mean here on Steem you already can direct your 'tax payment' to any chosen 'project'.
And people are predominantly shoosing projects with the biggest 'tax refund'
(self voting, frontrunning whale votes to maximaze curation rewards etc)
Correct
So, elaborating a bit)
Let's say Bob haves $100. At the end of the year the Goverment takes $20 from Bob, keeps $10 for its own purposes and gives $10 to Alice.
We call it 'taxation'.
Alice quite often belives that if we can somehow (maybe with a little help from a blockchain) 'tame the corrupt Goverment', she'll get $20 by the end of the year instead of $10.
But, looking at 'Steem experiment' we have good reason to belive she'll get $0 instead)
Lol ok I love the conclusion, hilarious...