The most disturbing trend today is megacorps coming out with Metaverse strategies (god have mercy on us all). Unrelated, the second most disturbing trend is the proliferation of scarce land.
Not just a trend, but a status-quo at this point. You can find this model everywhere — from multi-billion projects to lowly nft collections as a roadmap item. It’s astounding how an entire industry — that prides itself on thinking outside the traditional box — appears to be incapable of NOT selling land.
So I’m here to say:
FREE DIGITAL LAND FOR THE PEOPLE!
I only need three paragraphs to convince you.
You see mr land tycoon, in a digital world, most value is created from the bottom-up. It’s the teens, the artists, the ambitious creatives. Anyone with an internet connection that is on the same ground level and can create content without limitations. Countless people try —only the most talented and ambitious succeed. They are your fuel. And you need them to fucking start the engine. Yes, the capitalized companies and individuals will meaningfully enter at some point, but only after years of scrappy, creative individuals showing them how to do so successfully. They build the audience, and aura, of the platform.
If you depend on well-off lands owners (or the mercenaries they hire) to create unique content and draw audience, boy, things are gonna be rough for you.
You only need to look as far as Twitch, Roblox, YouTube. Can you imagine what YouTube would look like today, if you had to buy or rent an account before you can begin creating? I find it hard to believe that my stance here is contentious — it’s just that most folks in crypto have so far failed to make the analogy.
Only in the past two months did I begin to see sparks of truth pop up on twitter. The people are awakening. There is no stopping it now. It’s a populist movement, the very best kind.
Yours truly, Arad
https://twitter.com/aradtski
