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Not really, I saw it as technology that was "new and trendy" rebranding a very old and exploitive employment paradigm.

"You can work at a DAO and be paid on the blockchain"

"You can work at a company and be paid in script"

It's the same thing, but the modern technology masks what exactly is happening.



Do the relevant laws about how people get paid care about the difference between company scrip and company token?


I think the major difference is a DAO is not a corporation, by design. So the legislation around them is still in catch-up mode.

In other words, yes, because the entire framework is different.


We had this conversation in TheDAO (the big one that went sideways first) and ultimately the conclusion was that TheDAO would be best not investing its coin upfront, but sniffing out (potentially paying lawyers) the best legal jurisdiction to give it some kind of legal status, then it should go hunting for projects to invest in.


Oh if you mean someone doing a full time job for a weird nebulous computer contract without any kind of company or human leadership behind it that would be liable... does that ever actually happen?

A company that makes their own chains and contracts isn't really any different from a normal company situation.


No, but they might care about the difference between being employed by a company and doing gig work for other people with notionally no overarching structure.




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