Davivi (davivi)

“This superiority of the professional insider every bureaucracy seeks further to increase through the means of keeping secret its knowledge and intentions. Bureaucratic administration always tends to exclude the public, to hide its knowledge and action from criticism as well as it can. Bureaucracy naturally prefers a poorly informed, and hence powerless, parliament – at least insofar as this ignorance is compatible with the bureaucracy’s won interests” (Max Weber, Economy and Society:993).

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Bureaucracy "in contrast to the feudal order based upon personal loyalty – is easily made to work for anybody who knows how to gain control over it. A rationally ordered officialdom continues to function smoothly after the enemy has occupied the territory; he merely needs to change the top officials. It continues to operate because it is to the vital interest of everyone concerned, including above all the enemy” (Weber, Economy and Society, 1913)

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“The purely economic compensation of the office as a private source of income for the official can also lead to the direct purchase of offices” - Max Weber, Economy and Society, 1921

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A university hires a professor and pays them to write academic articles. The academic journal pays the writer nothing to use their material. In fact, many journals charge the author thousands to publish an article. The peer reviewer for the articles gets nothing for their work, either. Then the university has to pay thousands of dollars a year for a subscription to the journal so that their students can read the articles they paid the professor to write. This is a scam and the profit margins for the academic journals are off the charts. The future of academia is web3, decentralized with low bureaucracy, open access, and transparent with writers holding their own IP and being paid for their work, both as teachers and authors. First it was defi, then gamefi, then socialfi and now desci.

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DAOs need to be created by people who don't agree with each other. We are joined by ideology, not geography. Our metamorphoses involve transmuting differences into similarities, lead into gold. As Narcissus said to Echo, "This way, we must come together."

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All suggestions are free. It’s the ones you don’t take that you pay for.

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The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down in order to feel it’s warmth.

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