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{{KidsIntro|This page explains why people choose to give money to help WikiDeal grow.}}

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== Position Paper: Why Fund WikiDeal? ==

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==== 💰 Rewards (no guarantee*) ====

A portion of your WIL is designated Rewards (no guarantee*) — convertible to CHF when users subscribe. As more users pay their WikiDeal Membership subscription, your Rewards (no guarantee*) is redeemed progressively. This is a progressive community redistribution, not a return on investment.

A portion of your WIL is designated Rewards (no guarantee*), convertible to CHF when users subscribe. As more users pay their WikiDeal Membership subscription, your Rewards (no guarantee*) is redeemed progressively. This is a progressive community redistribution, not a return on investment.

==== 🔗 Community Contribution (automatic) ====

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==== 🔗 Karma Token Ecosystem ====

[[Gov/en/Portal:Economy/Karma-Tokens|Karma tokens]] give you access to the complementary currency network — exchangeable for housing, transport, food, and services within [[Gov/en/Portal:Trust-Safety/Rings-of-Trust|Rings of Trust]]. The more Rings exist, the more valuable your Karma tokens become.

[[Gov/en/Portal:Economy/Karma-Tokens|Karma tokens]] give you access to the complementary currency network, exchangeable for housing, transport, food, and services within [[Gov/en/Portal:Trust-Safety/Rings-of-Trust|Rings of Trust]]. The more Rings exist, the more valuable your Karma tokens become.

=== 5. Exit to Community = Long-Term Sustainability ===

Many social-impact platforms fail because they depend on founder charisma or donor fatigue. WikiDeal is designed to become ''more'' community-owned over time — not less. As more users join and the bonding curve fills, governance rights shift progressively to the user base.

Many social-impact platforms fail because they depend on founder charisma or donor fatigue. WikiDeal is designed to become ''more'' community-owned over time, not less. As more users join and the bonding curve fills, governance rights shift progressively to the user base.

This means funding WikiDeal is not just supporting a current product — it is seeding an institution that is designed to outlast its founders. The Exit to Community model, pioneered by Nathan Schneider and embedded in WikiDeal's founding architecture, ensures that early funders are contributing in a transfer of power, not a concentration of it.

This means funding WikiDeal is not just supporting a current product: it is seeding an institution that is designed to outlast its founders. The Exit to Community model, pioneered by Nathan Schneider and embedded in WikiDeal's founding architecture, ensures that early funders are contributing in a transfer of power, not a concentration of it.

=== 6. Social Impact: Deprivatizing Markets ===

Every CHF contributed to WikiDeal funds the deprivatization of a market that currently extracts value from vulnerable workers and consumers. Babysitters paying 25% to care.com, drivers paying 30% to Uber, fundraisers working on Commission for charities that capture most of the value — these are the markets WikiDeal targets.

Every CHF contributed to WikiDeal funds the deprivatization of a market that currently extracts value from vulnerable workers and consumers. Babysitters paying 25% to care.com, drivers paying 30% to Uber, fundraisers working on Commission for charities that capture most of the value: these are the markets WikiDeal targets.

The impact is not abstract. It is measured in Commission points: the difference between 25% extracted by a platform and 1.5% at-cost by WikiDeal is money that stays in the pocket of the babysitter, the driver, the fundraiser.

The impact is not abstract. It is measured in Commission points: the difference between 25% extracted by a platform and 1.5% at-cost by WikiDeal is money that stays in the pocket of the babysitter, the driver, the fundraiser. Beyond these first markets, WikiDeal explores cooperative co-ownership of agreements applicable to every domain, with research questions emerging from the community itself: see [[Gov/en/Portal:Ecosystem/Coopetition#beyond-crowdfunding|a new form of co-opetition]].

=== 7. Deliverables: what has been produced so far ===