I guess there might also be a distinction between a team and a movement. Latecomers to a movement might start putting the people who started the movement on a pedestal. Maybe it's just human nature...
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Yeah, a team is an attempt to maximize the efficient use of available resources. It's something inherently capitalistic (a group leveraging their joint labor and the means of production, to increase productivity, in the hope of eventually increasing profits).
A movement is just people imitating the behavior of someone prominent and paying them homage, in the hopes that some good things will spring out in return.
I've compared it to a cargo cult. If you write in ALL CAPS or cheer the appropriate OpenSats post, and jump through their hoops, the lightning gods will make Bitcoin rain down on you. And that really does work, so it'll just stay that way, forever. Only a few oddballs, like us, will even try to do their own thing.
Teams, tend to be self-directed and have their own ideas of what they want to do or where they want to take their projects. They will resist submission because they have their own internal leadership.
There are no teams in a cargo cult.
Interesting, yes I see a lot of value in working with others who bring insights or skills that I don't have and have the conviction to take things in a new directions.
However, I also see value in a project having visibility, users and momentum. Not sure if you had the audio on in the movement video. The narrator does emphasize the importance of the second and third participants rather than the person who started it.
Perhaps both teams and momentum/movement are required for impact...