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>The biggest thing that excites me about the possibilities for the future of smart contracts is that creators of all kinds could automatically benefit from any work they do.

>Any company that used faker.js to make a profit would have X% of that revenue feed back to the smart contracts.

Doesn't work in the real world. If you rely on them to tell you what their profit are for a project, they'll just give you a value of 0$ and continue to not pay you the same way they did before. The blockchain/smart-contracts adds no value compared to changing the licence on your code because either way you have to beg/sue them to get paid.

Even with a client who is well intentioned and wants to pay you, they will never want to link their profit to a smart contract and expose their financial data. Measuring profit btw is very complicated and there is a lot of human interpretation to it, you can have a company worth bilions of dollars with top employees making millions per years even if it technically has never made a profit.

And also, the risk of a bug in the smart contract emptying their account would be enough to stop any serious companies.




I totally agree that it does not work in the current version of the real world. We just don't have enough insight in to all the moving parts so there's no way we could properly compensate a long chain of people even if we wanted to.

If we were in a different version of the world (which we might end up in), it will be a no-brainer for someone to create a company that openly builds on the work of others and shares profit with those others. It democratizes the "I only need a small piece of a big pie" business model.




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