Idea: decentralized hierarchies

Describing a scenario

Charles creates a group, when he does it he has all the rights, including the right to invite others(1), so he invites James, then Charles also gives James the right to invite people(2), then James invites Bob, and now Charles decides that in order to invite more people, a poll needs to be made, so he gives James and Bob the right to vote(3) and the right to poll an invitation (4), then he revokes the right to invite without a poll (5).

Analysis

1 - Right to Invite

2 - Right to grant the right to Invite

3 - Right to vote on poll to Invite

4 - Right to create poll to Invite

5 - Right to revoke right to Invite

Now replace Invite with X

Right to X

Right to grant the right to X

Right to vote on poll X

Right to create poll X

Right to revoke right to X

Recursion

Right to grant right to vote on poll to vote on poll to create poll to revoke right to Invite

Complex recursion is solved with a DSL and good UI.

Roles

Roles group rights, adding a bit more complexity

Replace the X above with each of these:

- Assign Role

- Revoke Role

Rights are assigned to roles in the same way they are assigned to users. (This can be problematic but I still didn't think it through)

Meritocracy

Roles can group rights based on a meaningful quality

(This is just an example ok)

Designer: Right to vote on X

Developer: Right to vote on Y

Economist: Right to vote on Z

Engineer: Right to vote on XYZ

Vote Weight, the solution to not exclude people

Replace all the cases where you saw "vote on X" with:

Vote on X with weight N ( 0 ls N gte 1 )

Now everyone can vote on an engineering related poll, but the ones with the Engineer role may have a heavier vote weight.

What is the point?

I described this system that is supposed to be very flexible and allow for many types of power structures to be created. What is great about it is that I am not telling you how to distribute power, because I actually don't know the solution for that, and I doubt anyone does. Some things work for some people, but not for others. What I am doing is providing tools to create a variety of power structures.

With a system like this, if 100.000 people are divided among 100 groups of 1000, they may try 100 different combinations and that increases the chance of something that is better to arrive.

This is a very generic solution that can be applied to many cases, including the Cardano's distributed decision making.

Implementation and Integrations

I'd love to see something like this being built on Haskell or F# or some awesome functional programming language.

I would make plugins that could be used by the groups to interact with the outside world based on Rights. Like the right so make a purchase with the money shared by the group, or to vote on those expenses, etc etc…

Final thoughts

This is an idea I worked on my head throughout the last year, so maybe it's all wrong and I am just tripping on my own imagination. Anyway, if the value that I see in this idea is real and not just fantasy I would be happy to see further discuss and even work on implementing it.