Too Long; Didn't Read
Quadratic voting, funding and attention purchase are buzzwords that have been gaining popularity over the last few years. The ultimate effect of these schemes rolled out in their full form could be as deeply transformative as the industrial-era advent of mostly-free markets and constitutional democracy. But since when do we expect a single package of technologies to solve every problem anyway? "What about oceans?" isn't an argument against cars, it's a position that we need cars and nothing else. Public goods (eg. public parks, air quality, scientific research, this article...) are different in some key ways. When we are talking about public goods, production for multiple people can be decomposed into sequences of distinct trades between two parties.