Finance the building of social housing.
It creates jobs, fuels industries and finally we’d get affordable housing.
Definitely not by building a $1T Robot army.
Buy up huge tracts of Amazon forest real estate and carpetbomb it with anti-personnel mines so that nobody can go there, it can’t be illegally logged, and poachers won’t dare go there.
Yes this plan has flaws but can be tweaked.
I would build decentralized platforms that secure the basic needs of a civilization.
- decentralized world-scale messaging
- decentralized world-scale data transfers (video, images, etc)
- on top of these systems:
- anon voting with attestations
- reimplementation of all popular social media
- distributed gov functionality (political parties as a service)
Basically I would implement core functionality as a service. Everyone deserves a say in what they consume, in how they’re governed. I would codify all of that, open source it, and foster a culture of continuous improvement for all systems of governance.
This pattern, if done correctly, could persist for generations to come, and redefine our relationship with governance, exchange, and freedom. The objective would be to most accurately capture the will of the governed, with minimal disruption or life intrusion.
Such a mechanism would be infectious. Eventually, every population in the world would adopt it or some form of it.
This would make the world better for everyone, in every industry, on every level.
i’m dirt poor but I feel like ive already has quite an impact on a reasonable number of people. I won’t take about the specific things that i get up to but community work can reach a lot of people if you do it right. start a food not bombs, open an autonomous squatted homeless shelter
I’d domesticate bears.
what did they do to you to deserve such a shit fate?
Invest in unionization campaigns and non-profit independent media projects.
Possibly a more humble answer: Ask.
Life, and struggle, operate differently in hundreds of areas around even a single large country. Even individual towns might have ideas for different programs that would have varying levels of benefit, and operate much smoother through voluntary buy in.
I’d be open to fining / taxing the ultra rich, I’d just want to remember it’s a means to an end. We don’t improve people’s lives by “taking down the haves” alone.
To start, raise the income tax rates for corporations and high earners in the USA back to the levels before Reagan.
Eliminate the veto powers afforded certain countries in the UN.
Remove the bs cultural stigma against socialism in some countries.
Enforce international law and prosecute crimes against humanity.
At this point, start an media company. Call it Working Class Propaganda and publish stories that I think we should be talking about instead of what is out there. Explain how the rich are controlling the echo chambers and the topics of conversations so we can’t ever get to solving real problems. Too many people get rich by us not solving these problems. How much money is spent on anti-union, anti-public transportation, or anti-universal health care? All that money is always spent by companies getting rich off the current system.
I have no clue how to explain some concepts in an easy manner, but if I had enough start up I would hire many others. Promise to never be AI articles or pictures. Explain open source and the problems of having a walled garden. Explain Israel having a honey pot setup for pedos and now they have blackmail on many American and EU elites.
Might it just be better to grow ProPublica, 404media, or both instead of starting a new one?
give them all a platform they can dish on - propublica, 404, wired’s great reporting, jacobin, mother jones, dailykos - there’s a fuckton of fantastic journalism on the left that goes nowhere because we don’t have a fox-level advocate echoing it - msnbc is at best a milquetoast echo of a lefty leaning platform.
Yes that would be a good network to plug into, but I think the more the better.
Plumbing is a noble trade.
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Someone secure John Leguizamo he is our greatest asset.
man a young John Leguizamo would totally rock that role playing Luigi M.
I’d start hiring hitmen to kill every billionaire in the world.
Youre going to need to start a cult and get disciples. Even with some start up capital they can out bid you so your only hope is religious indoctrination.
Not a bad idea
But first make sure their will & estate stipulates that their wealth will be evenly distributed among every deserving needful hardworking person on the planet, right?
Why? Just imply sending another hitman! I think the billionaires would find themselves feeling very altruistic eventually.
No… They’d just scale up security
I don’t. They’d send their own hitmen.
No need. If they have heirs, the wealth will be split. If the resulting heirs still have enough to be billionaires apply the solution recursively. Eventually it will be diluted enough that nobody is a billionaire.
If there are no heirs it usually goes to the state (depending on jurisdiction).
Collapse the current US government by changing a 1 to a 0
Aw, geez…
Start-up capital means investors, investors mean expecting a return on investment, that means you must make sure that people you help will pay you back more than you spent helping them.
The concept in itself is contradictory. If you want to help someone, the easiest thing is not to expect anything in return for the help.
Its a hypothetical, let’s assume the capital comes from a charitable source.
Education - the only way to enable people to help themselves long term. And enable them to excell in a specific field they have interest in.
I’d research an internet node that could be raised with a couple of bake sales and deployed anywhere with the objective of providing free high-speed wifi to the populated world.
After a roll-out to get every point on the globe covered (that has people near it), we’d work on an upgrade campaign to make sure it is redundant and robust and never shuts down no matter how angry the local dictators are.
The people have advantage when crowdsourcing repairs and reroutes around censorship and responding to DDOS so this should usher in a wave of democratic (lower case) movements across the world. Movements towards public services and benefits will likely follow, according to CIA analysts who study such things.
