Decentralize it all? Or just one thing?

[First published on Cent]

There are a few projects doing some cool things towards making decentralized organizations a thing.

Case in point: Aragon.

The Aragon team have a bevy of heavy hitters and deep thinkers behind them. And their promo is like an episode of Mr. Robot.

Their mission is laudable too. They want to allow anyone to come together in order to interact, make decisions together, share in a common enterprise and benefit together, from anywhere. Sound familiar?

They have a client app that serves as the interface between users and their latest smart contract framework (currently aragonOS 4-A).

It looks like this👇

With that "simple" app, users can spin up a decentralized organization with shares, shared finances, custom permissions, votes, payroll management and more. Much more, apparently. And all decentralized. Did I say there's more?

As someone who works in a 10,000 employee organization with tens of billions of dollars worth of going concerns across 30 countries, it strikes me that the Aragon team seems to be creating a tool capable of enabling a (more) decentralized version of where I work.

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like complexity is being overlayed with a new complexity creating something that most people can't and don't want to be bothered with - at least right now.

But directionally they're right. My main contention is that to allow the most people to potentially join and participate in a non-traditional organization *simplicity* is needed.

Instead of decentralizing *every function* how about simply taking payments, traditionally the most centralized and core function of any organization, and creating a suite of transparent automated tools that anyone could use in any way they wanted?

This is exactly what @Ezincrypto (and @elrapierwit) seem to be proposing with their idea of co-creator reward splitting put forth in a recent post.

Or to view an existing tool in a different light, let's take a look at Seeding🌱. It's been described both as incentivized generosity as well as a hybrid of tipping/staking.

But to me Seeding🌱 looks like a tool that can guarantee and automate payments to a distributed group of early supporters *if* those supporters do the advertising and marketing needed to attract additional micro-subscribers to a specific creators post.

This arrangement eliminates the need for employment contracts, not to mention payroll and accounting departments (at least). Crucially there is no room for the creator to break their promise to pay since that promise has already been guaranteed in code at a set split.

That's interesting. Or at least it is to me. Let's be clear though, there is still a ton of experimentation left. And that has me so damn excited.