set up a transparent, local, ~privately-run organization that took funds from charity donors and, once it hits some limit, start dispensing UBI for a set period of years ta a randomly chosen UBI recipient pool in the city? Possibly alongside a pool of donor-chosen specific individuals, to encourage giving* (‘If you’re in the top 20~5% of people pitching in by the end, you get to choose a person to be a recipient’; if you’re in the top 10%, you get 2, if you’re at the top 5%, you get 5, etc. Its program would be pretty simple: Kickstarter, but once we hit $(1000~0,000 people * [20~50K/year] * [5~30 years] we set up payouts for the recipients on schedule, you hand it off to an account you don’t control anymore that pays out, there’s one switch point within days of launch where the organization has none of that money anymore except that to keep a small staff to monitor those people across the years, collecting and formatting and analyzing and publishing anonymized outcome result data (doing so beingn part of its pledge/raison-d’etre of the organization)
* Ideally paired with a perception campaign to make giving money – staggering sums of money, even – to one’s poorer friends/acquaintances as a gift, and being transparent about it so one can get social credit from your local circle – is a nice thing to do that norms about money and friendship should allow. i.e. Our norms about money and friendship should be such that the act of giving money as a gift, large amounts of money that come without expectation of any debt/favor incurred (as the best-given gifts are), is accepted and even encouraged. Another perception campaign should make receiving and accepting cash gifts as a good normal thing to do.
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dededos
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kaledo-art
stormborns
