Mastodawn

A friend was bemoaning (justly) we haven't been dreaming and imagining for a while. I think we've all been kinda head down surviving the winter and *waves hand at everything*

But it's spring now, and time for hope to come back to life at least.

Thusly I present a new tag:
#ifIHadABillionDollars

What would you do with a billion dollars? What would you build, create, solve, cultivate...?

[social cue: this is not the place to rant politics, we've got the rest of the Internet for that]

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Hein Ragas 1d ago

@vlrny After the obvious of taking about 5 million for myself so I will never have to work again, I would spend the rest to set up a public housing corporation with the mission to build, build, build! But the houses have to be well-insulated, full-electric with a heat pump etc. Make it resilient so it will last, with the aim to have the rent cover the cost of building and maintenance within 30 years. With a bit of luck, we can keep the momentum going indefinitely.

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Valerie Roney

@heinragas oooo I love this! A lot of things we just need the kickstarter energy to boot up a new system.