So, in these days weāve seen a new wave of proposals in the Honeypot to finance our swarms, and while the Support Swarm proposal has been published for more than two weeks (I want to emphasize that until recently there was no other proposal that could have fragmented the available HNY to stake) and still doesnāt have enough conviction, Tulipās proposal got enough HNY in less than 24 hrs.
And Iām not going to lie, that made me feel some kind of way.
(tulipās proposal)
(supporterās proposal)
[Screenshots taken July 20th 8:00 PM UTC]
Butā¦ what does that mean?
On paper we would assume that itās the result of the community signaling its conviction towards the Support group, however, if we look at the images we see how in the Support proposal, āothersā corresponds to the highest stake in honey, here I suppose that more members of the community support it, while Tulip needed just 5 members to reach enough conviction to pass.
At this point, I was thinking about the current way we distribute Honey to those who contribute and although we try to get rid of common structures and wages, we end up close to what the industry is used to pay for each position. But in our case, it doesnāt work as in the outside world, our form of payment also represents our conviction about how our society is built and this is where I think we have a problem.
I donāt mean to earn as much as a developer, but it seems certainly unfair that the difference in the wage results in a difference when voting and so we have to trust and rely on the responsibility and judgment of the developers to support proposals out of their area of expertise, especially when the support between guilds doesnāt appear to be mutual.
We all stand up for dev-related swarmsā proposals or in discussions where devs are disadvantaged, but Iāve repeatedly seen how non-related dev proposals take a fairly long time to reach conviction, conviction that due to the wages is acquired in greater volume by a group that doesnāt necessarily understand the tasks and responsibilities of other groups, I donāt expect them to understand them as I donāt understand theirs, everyone is focused on their area of knowledge.
Sometimes I think that part of that is because many believe that anyone can be a Supporter, and although thatās mostly true, itās also a position that on the long run is pretty sacrificed. To justify supporterās payments:
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We must keep up-to-date reading and learning stuff we oftentimes donāt even understand from all swarms (which isnāt an easy task) to give accurate information.
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We are incapable of having a schedule, what we earn is relative to the demand which of course is unpredictable. (This last point in particular for me has generated some anxiety issues, itās not easy and healthy to have one eye 24/7 here)
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We depend on the amount of help we provide, regardless of the time and effort we put into being always ready for the action.
Yet the most we earn is an average of USD ~$150/week, meanwhile Tulip membersā recent average has been about USD ~$390/week, this is without pollen.
How long would it take for a non-dev member to acquire an amount of conviction comparable to them? Who stands up for the mundane small playersā initiatives?
All this makes me wonder if weāre on a truly community-driven DAO or a in a devs technocracy.
We canāt raise our wages because everyone would complain and find it uncomfortable, yet when everyone supposedly agrees the conviction feels clearly vague, like if there wasnāt clear incentive for them to vote; for now, all we have left is to appeal to the support of the other members of the community for these initiatives and hopefully start a conversation about how we could mitigate this problem and give the different areas of 1Hive the same ability to stand up for themselves.
I want to end up saying that here Iām talking as a member of the Support Swarm, as I feel thereās where I contribute the most, but I donāt want the particular example I used to steal importance from my premise, if it turns to be true that the community has such vague conviction towards us, I wonāt be the one to force it.
Wanted to open this thread because Iāve seen this situation repeated with swarms like Terra and others.