Why can’t big companies be as productive as startups?

Why doesn't Google split up into mini startups, with more equity upside in doing well? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm)

How to fight decline in ownership?

Why don't any US consumer social apps have money built in?

Aka Why no mega-apps like WeChat in US?

How can capitalism account for the welfare of nonhumans?

Animals? AI? Institutions/corporations/nations? Future beings?

See https://aiimpacts.org/we-dont-trade-with-ants/, https://www.thinkingcomplete.com/2022/07/moral-strategies-at-different.html

Why don't bounties or prizes work?

To a first order approximation, almost no work in the world is accomplished via a bounty or prize. Serious work tends to be done by fulltime professionals.

• Returns to focus are extremely high?

What is the gap between retroactive bounty payments and other forms of trade (payments, taxes)?

Problem: how much to value of a thing after already receiving the thing -- proactive payments reveal true preferences; retroactive payments encourage lying

Maybe: representative democracy seems to do a pretty good job; corporations are kind of representative democracy (except votes are mostly dollars)

How do you decide how much to pay under a QF situation?

Is Quadratic Funding any good?

Vitalik seems to like it, but outside of a few test cases like Gitcoin it hasn’t gotten wider traction. One might expect actually good decisionmaking criteria to be adopted by curious orgs.