Designing the Commons: Beth and Josh on Community and Political Infrastructure in Web3
Beth McCarthy, Program Director at Web3Privacy Now, joins Zk Av Club in Berlin to reflect on an event built entirely without keynotes or a stage, and the significance of being the first place we ever ran the Recording Station.
Beth’s community weaving spans cities, from Bangkok to San Francisco, bringing the people building decentralized infrastructure into the same room as the people building decentralized communities. What does it look like to bring a relational graph to life in physical space?
Josh, known as the Blockchain Socialist and co-founder of Bread Cooperative, joins partway through with a different register. He breaks down political economy as a design space rather than an ideological battleground, explains how Bread Cooperative builds applications from a post-capitalist lens, and discusses why most crypto use cases default to financialization.
A conversation about building infrastructure people can actually stand inside.
