Builders burn out while corporations profit off their free legos. Without financial support, free software becomes unsafe — putting users, companies, and communities at risk.
And when building public goods isn’t profitable, the best and brightest of our generation are drawn to more lucrative work, rationally putting self-interest above the needs of the community.
The Optimism Collective believes that building public goods should be profitable.
The Optimism Collective believes that building public goods should be profitable.
This key ingredient to the Optimistic vision is more than just altruism – it’s core to our success. Optimism’s codebase itself is an open-source project, and builds on the shoulders of countless OSS giants which came before it.
This means public goods funding is a critical growth strategy. For Optimism, well-funded public goods means better developer tooling, widespread user education, safer infrastructure, and industry-leading research. It means Optimism can last and thrive.
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Once we show that this model can drive a successful economy for the Collective, we can take the principle of impact = profit to the world.
Together let’s end financial martyrdom, builder exploitation, and let’s empower people to change the world.
Because the ones that are crazy enough to think that they can, are the ones that do.
Because the ones that are crazy enough to think that they can, are the ones that do.
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