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>Neither category requires a special funding mechanism

Can you elaborate on this? What effective ways are they funded today? Public goods are chronically underfunded even in the western world so alternate ways of funding these projects seem beneficial to everyone.

One major problem is that the internet is global and most public goods funding happens at the nation state level which leaves a giant hole where too little funding exists for species-wide public goods such as climate change, medical research, and anything related to the internet which is all of the public goods like open source libraries, cryptography, and Ethereum projects like clients, base layer contracts, and other open source infrastructure.

Having a public goods funding mechanism at a global scale seems necessary for our increasingly interconnected world.



> Public goods are chronically underfunded

What are public goods you consider to be underfunded?


He said them: medical research, and anything related to the internet which is all of the public goods like open source libraries, cryptography, and Ethereum projects like clients, base layer contracts, and other open source infrastructure.




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