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The road not taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income

by andersco on 3/21/25, 2:30 AM with 3 comments

• by zafka on 3/21/25, 2:53 AM

  This is a breath of fresh air for me. I am so grateful that a portion of society has held onto their empathy and moral compass while becoming very successful.

• by andersco on 3/21/25, 2:37 AM

  I was at the talk Jeff gave earlier this evening at Cooper Union and I came away with a strong conviction of the power of this idea. To learn more, check out https://www.givedirectly.org/rural-us/

• by markus_zhang on 3/21/25, 2:45 AM

  I think the American dream had a few conditions that might not be repeatable:

  1. Pretty much all Non-American part of the world has SHTF moments;

  2. US was an expanding empire;

  3. The aristocrats were wiser;