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2026-05-04 17:41
Bad Governance Can Break Even the Best Tech, Says GoodDollar's Sam McCarthy
TL;DR: Sam McCarthy, Governance Lead at GoodDollar and Ecosystem Lead at DAOstar, just wrapped a nine-week community redesign of GoodDollar's governance system. His core argument: the hardest problems in DAOs are social ones, and most governance primitives have already been built—what's missing is the people work. He breaks down how to diagnose broken governance (plutocracy, back channels, fake in...