Editing Criticisms of the DGF project (section)

=== Fundamental Criticisms ===

* [[wikipedia:Unintended_consequences|Law of Unintended Consequences]]
*[[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence|Chesterton's Fence]]
*[[wikipedia:Criticism_of_democracy|Criticisms of government]]

==== Over-financialization ====
Financializing every human behavior degrades the fundamental human impulse to help without expectation of reward. Under this system, everything is tied to a measured value, then accounted for and rewarded according to whatever system is currently in place, even though that system is necessarily flawed. It eliminates the possibility of selflessness, self-sacrifice, for your community. [There are more elaborated arguments<ref>Rossman, Gabriel. 2014. “Obfuscatory Relational Work and Disreputable Exchange.” ''Sociological Theory'' 32(1):43–63.</ref><ref>Zero HP Lovecraft, "The Gig-economy" (2022 re-upload)

https://zerohplovecraft.substack.com/p/the-gig-economy</ref> in this vein.]<br>
:Answer: It doesn't need to. This tool can be used to help us ignore the trivial accounting, by automating it with a system which is trustworthy because it is perpetually open to auditing by anyone. Then we can focus on higher-level concerns. This is the reason DGF has a primary concern with [[transcendent values]] when building DAOs. 
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:This tool does, however, need to be constantly sharpened--re-evaluated, improved, questioned--instead of taken for granted. But the evolutionary structure rewards that very type of continual improvement--as long as that looseness is preserved.

==== Downsides of meritocracy ====
Meritocracy without cultivating gratitude and humility is corrosive over time. Though we want somewhat of a class structure for efficiency, we don't want the gap to be large enough for the the top and bottom to dissociate. This is built in computationally with hyper-inflationary reputation, but this must also be managed emotionally.

==== Downsides to transparency ====
* Threat to privacy
*...

==== Downsides of globalism ====
* Threat to local community
* Inevitability of oppression
* Global-level mechanisms are existential threats