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<![endif]--> <table class="container" lang="container" dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" valign="top" style="width:100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="message-wrapper" style="color:#222;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" valign="top" style="border-collapse:separate;"><tr><td valign="top"><![endif]--> <div dir="ltr">Interesting because what you propose sounds to me very much like an application of the median voter theorem to SIlicon Valley:<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The median voter theorem as developed by Anthony Downs in his 1957 book, “An Economic Theory of Democracy,” is an attempt to explain why politicians on both ends of the spectrum tend to gravitate towards the philosophical center. Downs, as well as economist Duncan Black, who proposed the theory in 1948, argue that politicians take political positions <span zeum4c313="PR_1_0" data-ddnwab="PR_1_0" aria-invalid="grammar" class="Lm ng">are</span> far as possible near the center in order to appeal to as many potential voters as possible. Under certain constraints/assumptions, Black says, the median voter “wins,” and the outcome ends up as a Nash equilibrium. </blockquote><div><br><div>https://econ243.academic.wlu.edu/2017/01/30/the-median-voter-theorem/</div><div><br></div><div>I do wonder whether there is a similar trend at work in Silicon Valley as some posit is occurring in the nation as a whole?</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">[The median voter theorem is] not much of a theory at all anymore. Well-organized interest groups like the National Rifle Association and the National Education Association as well as large donors and ideological warriors on both sides have more clout than the median voter because they are organized and focused while most people aren’t.<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">And in many <span zeum4c313="PR_2_0" data-ddnwab="PR_2_0" aria-invalid="spelling" class="LI ng">nonpresidential</span> elections, the median voter probably isn’t voting at all. That’s particularly true for low-income people: Election participation by people in households just below the median income of $52,000 was around 40 percent in 2014, compared with 52 percent for voters in households earning $150,000 or more.</blockquote><div><br></div><div></div></div><div>Applied to Silicon Valley, one would argue that startup entrepreneurs make products for the mass market rather than for all consumers and startup investors only tend to invest in such companies, thereby marginalizing those groups that care about social goods the most but that have been systematically excluded from the marketplace by not being mass market. </div><div><br></div><div>For example, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are mostly white and male may target their sales and marketing to non-minorities because of these groups' higher income levels and cultural understandings or to certain ages such as younger demographics at the detriment of, say, the elderly.<br><div><br><div data-from-addr="" 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mso]></td></tr></table><![endif]--> </td> </tr> </table> <div> <div> <p data-m-apply-default-font="true"><br></p> <div class="gmail_extra"> <p data-m-apply-default-font="true"><br></p> <div class="gmail_quote"> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 9:41 PM, fuzzyTew <span dir="ltr"> <a href="mailto:fuzzytew@gmail.com" target="_blank">fuzzytew@gmail.com</a></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <u></u> <div dir="auto"><div>What about the idea stimulates the thought of artificial limits? I see it as growing and shaping the options to include everyone's views, rather than artificially limiting anything at all.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Like if group A likes privacy, group B likes control of their people, and group C likes complete transparency of communications, you might make a blockchain app where the ISP can toggle some reviewable privacy feature for their subnetwork to be set by user consensus, denied subnetwork-wide, or forced on subnetwork-wide.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You'd open the project to any concerns and mediate them all to be fully included, such that anyone who can communicate with the design process can massage the product to meet their preferences, no matter who they are.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm used to thinking of crowdsourcing funds and developers from potential users, as opposed to seeking investors. I guess businesses are used to starting with money, though.</div></div><br><br><div><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jun 18, 2020, 2:53 PM The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] <<a href="mailto:drwho@virtadpt.net" target="_blank">drwho@virtadpt.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br></div><div> On Thursday, June 18, 2020 10:47 AM, fuzzyTew <<a rel="noreferrer" href="mailto:fuzzytew@gmail.com" target="_blank">fuzzytew@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 40px"><div dir="auto"><div><div>Why isn't it seen as a sound business plan to honestly and transparently meet everyone's concerns and fundraise among anyone who likes the idea?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If I were an investor (angel or otherwise) and I saw that in the business plan, I'd back away fast. That means the company<br></div><div>wants to artificially limit their success and profit, which means the return on my investment would be impacted. That's not<br></div><div>good business.<br></div><div><div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div>The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]<br></div><div>PGP (new, Protonmail): 4d7d 5c94 fa44 a235<br></div><div>WWW: <a rel="noreferrer" href="https://drwho.virtadpt.net/" target="_blank">https://drwho.virtadpt.net/</a><br></div><div>The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.<br></div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>