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Companies of the future: No CEO, no boss, managed by blockchain

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Re: Companies of the future: No CEO, no boss, managed by blockchain

#11
Whether the technology can be molded in a way to address the need to make hundreds of "votes" or decisions a day I think is inevitable and it will happen.

I think what this author gets wrong is that a great boss is as amazing as a bad boss is shitty. People ultimately want to be led, they want to learn and be inspired. I don't seen an etheruem smart contract inspiring humanity on its own.

Re: Companies of the future: No CEO, no boss, managed by blockchain

#13
Its interestingly what these machines, free of mans limitation will do.. it boils down to a war of guessing.. he who can percive and manipulate the futures ahead of all others, while calmly managing the present will walk out of all turmoil a grown - thing.

Re: Companies of the future: No CEO, no boss, managed by blockchain

#15
post #7

The concept of a DAO is too simplistic when presented in all these examples. An organization has multiple levels and on each level there are many decisions being made constantly. Some escalate up, some don't. You cannot just expect that each decision within an organization will be decided via a DAO's shareholder voting mechanism because what will ultimately happen is, there are so many actions to vote on, shareholder…

It's the same problem with proposals for radical direct democracy (i.e. without representation). You'll probably end up with very, very low turnout.

Re: Companies of the future: No CEO, no boss, managed by blockchain

#16
post #7

The concept of a DAO is too simplistic when presented in all these examples. An organization has multiple levels and on each level there are many decisions being made constantly. Some escalate up, some don't. You cannot just expect that each decision within an organization will be decided via a DAO's shareholder voting mechanism because what will ultimately happen is, there are so many actions to vote on, shareholder…

What about a variant which employs representative democracy? Shareholders vote for members to serve on a decision making board.

Re: Companies of the future: No CEO, no boss, managed by blockchain

#18
post #7

The concept of a DAO is too simplistic when presented in all these examples. An organization has multiple levels and on each level there are many decisions being made constantly. Some escalate up, some don't. You cannot just expect that each decision within an organization will be decided via a DAO's shareholder voting mechanism because what will ultimately happen is, there are so many actions to vote on, shareholder…

What about a variant which employs representative democracy? Shareholders vote for members to serve on a decision making board.

And then the board selects a CEO to run the day-to-day operations... and we're back to the current system.

Re: Companies of the future: No CEO, no boss, managed by blockchain

#20
This documentary "Machines of Loving Grace" immediately comes to mind;

https://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-lov...

  Part one explores the myth that rose up in the 1990s that 
  computers could create a new kind of stable world: They 
  would bring about a new kind global capitalism purportedly 
  free of risk and failure, without the boom and bust of the 
  past, would abolish centralised political power, and 
  create a new kind of democracy mediated by technology and 
  the Internet, where millions of people would be connected 
  as nodes in cybernetic systems without hierarchy. This 
  film explores how this myth came to be by following two 
  groups that converged on the ideas. One is the small group 
  of disciples around the novelist Ayn Rand in the 1950s who 
  saw themselves as a prototype for a future society where  
  everyone could follow their own selfish desires and that   
  would somehow create a stable and equitable society. The  
  other is the digital entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley, many 
  of whom were also disciples of Ayn Rand, that espoused 
  grand visions of global utopia to be delivered by their 
  technology. They believed that new computer networks would 
  allow the creation of a society where everyone would also 
  follow their own self-interest but that would similarly 
  somehow miraculously bringing a stable and equitable 
  society too. They were joined by Alan Greenspan who had 
  also been a disciple of Ayn Rand, who became convinced 
  that the computers were creating a new kind of “stable  
  capitalism.”
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