Web3创始人之路

“Safe career” 「职业安全」

There was a time when a person’s career was spent at one company, climbing the ladder & feeling secure in the notion that retirement was there for them. Looking neither safe nor rewarding, that path is just not the norm these days.
曾经有一段时间，一个人的职业生涯是在一家公司度过的，在这个公司里爬梯子，并且感觉能稳妥地做到退休，这让他们感到安全。今天这看起来既不安全，也不值得，这条道路已经不是今天常态了。
These days, people jump between companies, seeking novelty and gathering experience & skills, building their CV in search of advancement, or stockpiling resources to build their own thing.
如今，人们在不同的公司之间跳来跳去，寻求新鲜感，积累经验和技能，撰写简历以寻求晋升，或者囤积资源以建立自己的事业。
We can only speculate on why that is:
我们只能推测其中的原因:

  • Those safe career/life paths may no longer be that safe. 那些安全的职业/生活道路可能不再那么安全了
  • Recent generations are restless & don’t settle as easily. 最近几代人都很不安分，不容易安定下来
  • It’s getting cheaper & cheaper to do your own thing. 做你自己的事的成本越来越低

The truth is probably a combination of the above, but I’m going to go ahead and put emphasis on the last bit.
事实可能是上述三者的结合，但我将继续强调最后一点。
Cost of building companies pre-internet or early-internet, vs. now, was 10x-100x higher.
Of course I came up with the number on the spot, but think about it:
在没有互联网或早期互联网的情况下，建立公司的成本是现在的10倍到100倍。当然，我是当场想出了这个数字，但是想想看:

  • Building a brick & mortar store? $100k _might _do. 建一家实体店? 可能确实需要10万美元。
  • Building an early-internet company? The computers were super-expensive, you needed to build your own servers… Let’s kid ourselves and say you could have done it all for $10k. 建立一个早期的互联网公司？计算机超级昂贵，你需要建立自己的服务器… 让我们估摸着说，你需要1万美元来做到这一切。

  • Online? You can build a storefront with drop-shipping for under $1k, or even free if you’ll have it hosted on sites like Etsy or eBay. 电商？你可以用低于1千美元建立一个代销店面，如果你在Etsy或eBay等网站上托管它，甚至可以免费。

    Two Other Options 另外两个选项

    Enabled by the widespread adoption of the computer & the internet, two other paths have experienced a resurgence:
    随着计算机和互联网的广泛应用，另外两个选择也经历了复兴:

  • Freelancing & founding 自由职业与创业

These paths existed long before the internet, what gave them fresh appeal is the above mentioned drop in costs of starting a company & the about to be mentioned, location independence enabled by the widespread use of computers & internet.
这些道路，早在互联网出现之前，就已经存在了，上面提到的开办公司成本的下降以及由于电脑和互联网的广泛使用而实现的地理位置独立，赋予了它们新的吸引力。
Anyhow, these roads tend to overlap, as a lot of freelancers will tell you their main passion is that project they’re working on in their free time or that podcast they’re running on the side.
无论如何，这些道路往往是重叠的，因为许多自由职业者会告诉你，他们的主要兴趣，是他们在业余时间做的项目，或者他们在主业之外做的播客。

Enter The DAO DAO的到来

Decentralized autonomous organization, as a concept, have now been around for a while. In practice, we’re only now getting a glimpse at them - the ones that work.
去中心化自治组织（DAO）作为一个概念，已经存在了一段时间。实际上，我们现在只能瞥见那些能起作用的。
As it currently stands, the most fully functional ones are the ones that are intended for running decentralized funds, such as the MolochDAO/DAOHaus/Pokemol.
就目前的情况而言，功能最全面的DAO是，那些旨在去中心化运营的基金，如 MolochDAO/DAOHaus/Pokemol。
To make more use-cases possible, we will need tools like Colony to allow us to actually manage work & reward allocation, and a reputation system inside your decentralized organization.
为了使更多的场景成为可能，我们将需要像Colony这样的工具，来让我们实际管理工作和分配奖励，以及在您去中心化组织内部的声誉系统。
Other notable frameworks for running DAOs are Aragon & DAOstack, but let us get into more detail comparing all of these in some future article, and move back to the main point.
其他值得注意的运行DAO的框架，是Aragon和DAOstack，但是让我们在以后的文章中对所有这些进行更详细的比较，现在回到重点。
These magical tools for building DAOs will make it orders of magnitude cheaper, faster & easier to launch & manage organizations of any kind.
这些神奇的建立DAO的工具，将使它更便宜，更快，更容易发起和管理任何类型的组织数量级。
This should enable people on opposite sides of the world, who don’t necessarily even trust each other - to build companies together, over the internet.
这应该能够让世界两端的人们——他们甚至不一定相互信任——通过互联网来一起建立公司。

  • It’s not surprising this blows your mind, what’s surprising is that it doesn’t blow _everyone’s _mind.

  • 这让你大吃一惊并不奇怪 — 奇怪的是它不会让每个人大吃一惊。

    The Roads Become One 道路合二为一

    So, what we got is:
    所以，我们得到的结论是:

  • The emergence of tools for building & running companies digitally & without any central authorities;

  • 出现了数字化建设和运营公司的工具并且没有任何中央权力机构;
  • Driving down the cost of starting companies,
  • 降低成立公司的成本,
  • Taking the cost of participating in building companies down with it.
  • 降低参与建立公司的成本

You can start to imagine people “freelancing” from organization to organization, earning a bit of ownership anywhere they go - all the while having a company that they’ve started running in parallel, being built by other freelancers.
你可以开始想象人们是从一个组织到另一个组织“自由职业者” ，无论他们去哪里，都能获得一些所有权——同时拥有一个他们已经开始并运营的公司，同其他自由职业者一起建设。

The paths of a “freelancer” and a “business owner” become one - magic. “自由职业者”和“企业主”的路径变成一个魔术。

Another thing you get is freelancers starting to form decentralized units & unions, one such organism is the Raid Guild. A decentralized workshop providing pretty much anything from consulting to design, development and marketing - formed by the members of the MetaCartel.
你得到的另一件事是，是自由职业者开始形成分散的单位和工会，其中一个这样的有机体是Raid Guild。一个由 MetaCartel成员组成的分散式工作室，提供从咨询到设计、开发和营销的各种服务。

Possible side effects 可能的副作用

  • The freelancer feels less lonely & isolated. 自由职业者感觉不那么孤独和孤立
  • The business owner feels more freedom. 企业主感到更多的自由
  • They’re both able to say “fuck you!” to their landowners in San Francisco, because they’re living the dream in the 他们都能对旧金山的土地所有者说“去你妈的” ，因为他们生活在Web of Opportunity 机遇之网
  • Random remote villages in the developing world prosper. 发展中国家的某个偏远村庄繁荣昌盛