I voted Yes on this ratification.
Prior to voting, I read all of the prereads, the summaries, and the comments in this thread up until this point. I found the deliberative process to be thoughtfully run and also found the conversation here to be positive and inspiring. I am grateful for all of the hard work that went into both the upfront deliberative process and all the responses that folks have written out here.
I found my personal perspective on the specific subject matter at hand to be a very close call — on one hand, I do believe that we should be weighing upfront grant funding as a component of overall reward, on the other hand, I also observe that we are very early in our ability to understand cause + effect, measure impact, and really understand these systems. Weighing it all out, I came out at probably 52/48 in favor, similar to @spengrah.
That said, what ultimately gave me the confidence to vote Yes is the belief that we are playing an infinite game and that action produces information that will help us play that game in a better, more just way.
We decided to run a deliberative process. That process was thoughtfully run. That process gave us an output.
Is that output perfect? Absolutely not. The output is controversial and complex and not 100% clear. But that’s exactly what we predicted when we started the process and why we ran the process in the first place. This is the hard work of incrementally building new governance systems that work better than anything our world has seen before.
I vote Yes to stand behind that process, embrace all the learnings we get from it (and the output that it got us to), and make our next process + systems better with those learnings. Onwards!