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Let me contribute.

Civilizations eventually die under the weight of their own administration.

We become so fearful of any abuse, that we end up adding more and more regulations, and new administrations to control their application.

Today, our technical debt —or admin debt— is so big that we have an army of people, paid by our tax money, not to create value but to get in the way of the people who try to.

The first person we had to hire for the @commonshub_bxl is someone who ends up spending half her time doing admin. It’s crazy. Then we also pay an external person to do the accounting. And now someone else, at the administration, is paid to verify that we did it all properly.

One economic transaction, 3 people paid to ensure proper reporting. Crazy.

The only way out: open source everything.

Instead of putting the burden on entrepreneurs, put the burden on the community.

That’s how the Internet grew. eBay, YouTube’s biggest realization was the idea that you should let anyone share. Every friction point should be removed. Instead, enable the community to flag bad behaviors and abuse. Trust by default and empower the community to quickly react whenever needed.

What if our administration would work the same way?

Contributing to society, to the community should be as easy as contributing to Wikipedia.

Let people opt in to start an open source organization. All financial transactions would be open for everyone to see. In exchange, the administration stays out of your way. No paperwork, no reporting. They just send the bill for paying your fair share (also in a transparent way for everyone to see).

I’m not intro entrepreneurship to become rich. I don’t have a car, I stopped flying, I don’t need much. I just want to solve problems, create value, contribute.

Let me contribute.