Ask HN: How to incentivize people for a long term project?

1. study past examples

2. focus on a selected group that you can incentivize to donate/invest for prestige or similar

3. use money to pay people that make day to day progress

4. what’s unclear to me is how do you make the project continue after your time, you should probably reserve some of the money to plan for this (back to point 1)

In science fiction there’s very long term projects such as in Dune or Foundation which the authors put a great deal of thought into.