Jeff Atwood“The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income.” https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-road-not-taken-is-guaranteed-minimum-income/
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.@codinghorror I hope this improves the world, but as someone from a fairly rural area ... I have my doubts.
Isaac Lyman@codinghorror Very cool! Donated and along for the ride
Tim Danner@codinghorror I have some money in a Vanguard DAF. I want to contribute to these GMI studies. Do you have a link or search terms I can use? 🙏
@tdanner soon! Thank you! Right now spread the word. Make sure people, especially state and local officials, are hearing about it! More to come soon. 💛
Pusher of Pixels@codinghorror It's such a damning testament to how brainwashed the US is on the whole. Giving money to low income people is considered 'bad' and 'wasteful'.
When in reality it's one of the best was to generate actual economic activity. People will absolutely spend the money...they have to. Which in turn generates tax revenue for low income gov'ts, which allows more services for to more people.
echarlie@codinghorror very interesting article. And as someone who lives spitting distance from Mercer County and drives through pretty regularly, I am very excited to see how this experiment improves those communities!
@notecharlie givedirectly was just there to visit and get bearings. We are working on this as hard as we can, and we will do it together with the communities as a team.
Jan Hamal Dvořák@codinghorror So we have this program in Czechia where poor people get subsidies to be able to afford rent. You know what? Those people now pay 50% higher rent than lower-middle class people!