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I'd love to see more interest in experimenting with alternative economic models. I could also come up with at least one. I'm not sure how this is ever going to happen though, given the politics of the world we live in now.



If I were myself rich, and able to hire a dev team, I'd build a global full-proof identity system (iris scanning maybe?) to guarantee identity 1:1, and a crypto coin with guaranteed basic income built in.

Then I'd build a not-for-profit grocery chain/and other businesses, where all fiat/crypto go back evenly to users of the coin. I'd buy up homes rent them below market rent values to try and drive rents back down instead of up.

Grocery stores would sell products cheaper, and profits would be split between gbi coin holders who live in that area, and workers at the local businesses we run. Execs at all companies we build would be capped at 100x worker salary. They'd also be not-for-profit (opposed to non-profit), meaning ALL money has to be paid at end of fiscal year to improvements of business, or to wages/bonuses/charity/etc.

I don't have faith in government to be the change we need, we're going to need to think outside the box and create self-sustaining government agnostic solutions.




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