Share your top concerns about a future Member Based Organisation (MBO)

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Hello everyone,

This thread is a good place to share your top concerns about a Cardano Member-Based Organisation (MBO).

Where do you have the most concerns, and where do you see the greatest risks?

By sharing our perspectives, we can have an engaging discussion that covers different viewpoints and maybe even come up with some solutions. Just remember, let’s keep it respectful and open-minded. We’re here to learn from each other’s experiences and ideas.

If you are looking into an entry point into the whole MBO discussion best to start here:

What is the Cardano Member Based Organisation (MBO)?

Since Charles did the video about the Cardano roadmap and Governance 4 months ago, we can hear more and more short format channel mentions about “members-based organization” (MBO) in Cardano Community but rarely see long format discussions about it, so why not start some? In this context, also thanks to @Michael.Liesenfelt who has already started a topic yesterday with some concrete suggestions under CIP - Cardano Professional Society. In this post, I’d like to take one step back and start the …

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Over the past year, I have been observing the great success and rise of Intersect. Perhaps there is more for me to dive into and learn, however three questions / concerns that I am interested in discussing as follows:

1. Intersect is becoming very involved in many if not most aspects of governance. Does anyone share any concerns that this may become too big a branch of government? Such that DReps and SPOs are relegated to only a few functions aside from being supervisory so to speak over the main governing entity in Intersect?

2. Along with my prior point, happens now if there are 2 votes of no confidence from DReps and SPOs? Is there a robust alternative to Intersect, or will there be a giant gap here? Perhaps we need to be concurrently be building up at least the bones / framework to quickly spin up alternatives in the event such a case happens, because in the long arc of history this has always been a certainty. If we want this to be truly enduring, 2100… hell 2200 and beyond, this should be in mind.

3. I somewhat have concerns, albeit not deeply thought out, about the rules having DReps also possibly being SPOs, and Intersect members. It’s a bit of an incestuous dynamic which can run into problems. In particular, I am thinking of situations in which ideas / proposals can be rammed through because the people proposing them and the people confirming and executing them are the same parties. Shouldn’t these branches behave more like proper checks of power against each other? Imagine if in the US, the people in Congress were also the same exact staff as the executive and judicial. That wouldn’t be a tripartheid government, rather it would be a singular entity masquerading as one.

At any rate, this is all exciting stuff and can’t wait for us to hash out the most robust governance system out there.