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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ZenHeathen 🇨🇦1d ago

@heinragas And every one of them set up with solar from Day One. @vlrny

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Hein Ragas

@ZenHeathen @vlrny Obviously. Energy costs will be lower, and if we split the difference between 'normal' and these lower costs with the renters, they will still rent cheap and we will be able to recoup the investment sooner so we can build more, sooner.