So, I'm not the greatest at generating profit. That is a *very* specific skillset which tends to involve 1. having start-up money, and 2. a very specific set of skills and mindset to pull off.
I think that's inefficient, and I think that sentences a lot of people to death.
I don't know if you've heard about Guaranteed Minimum Income, but at this point of resource hoarding in our society, I've come to see it as an absolute necessity rather than just a nice option.
It's started picking up some traction in Silicon Valley - in fact, I think Zuckerberg might have even floated the idea recently.
I need to come up with a solid battle plan as to how to approach this as an individual - and how to help other individuals approach this until the demand is overwhelming - but it is something urgent, and something that would change both our lives in such astounding ways if it ever comes to fruition.
If you're not familiar with it, it's been experimented with to great success in Canada, as well as a small town here in the US to great results. Of course, that's where it stopped: a trial period.
My partner got an assignment on Mechanical Turk recently, from a study in Syracuse evaluating the feasibility of Guaranteed Minimum Income. People are interested in this. Even people in power are considering this. Now it's just a matter of building momentum, like Bernie did, and getting enough people to demand this instead of letting politicians keep fooling around with killing Medicare.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2017-10-11 12:02 am (UTC)So, I'm not the greatest at generating profit. That is a *very* specific skillset which tends to involve 1. having start-up money, and 2. a very specific set of skills and mindset to pull off.
I think that's inefficient, and I think that sentences a lot of people to death.
I don't know if you've heard about Guaranteed Minimum Income, but at this point of resource hoarding in our society, I've come to see it as an absolute necessity rather than just a nice option.
It's started picking up some traction in Silicon Valley - in fact, I think Zuckerberg might have even floated the idea recently.
I need to come up with a solid battle plan as to how to approach this as an individual - and how to help other individuals approach this until the demand is overwhelming - but it is something urgent, and something that would change both our lives in such astounding ways if it ever comes to fruition.
If you're not familiar with it, it's been experimented with to great success in Canada, as well as a small town here in the US to great results. Of course, that's where it stopped: a trial period.
My partner got an assignment on Mechanical Turk recently, from a study in Syracuse evaluating the feasibility of Guaranteed Minimum Income. People are interested in this. Even people in power are considering this. Now it's just a matter of building momentum, like Bernie did, and getting enough people to demand this instead of letting politicians keep fooling around with killing Medicare.