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I like this idea. Furthermore, it could be used as a preparation for basic income: one of the problem with BI is where do we get enough money ?

One solution is making things cheap.

And one way to make that happen, is by collaboratively creating assets that may have high fixed-cost, but very low variable cost - which what we'll need for BI.

For example, shared community fiber. or on a bigger scale - build together a city ?



Things like "free fiber" is thinking too small.

The "killer app" for making things cheaper is obvious.

Solve the housing crisis that effects every major city in the world, and you get rid of the biggest expense that humans pay.

It is not even that hard to solve from a technical perspective. Construction costs are pennies on the dollar, when compared to land costs.

The tough part is solving the political problem of convincing all the rich landowners to let us devalue their investment.

By definition, if we make housing cheap, we have destroyed the housing investment of a whole lot of really powerful people.


I agree. Maybe the solution is starting a city from scratch, on cheap land on the middle of nowhere, while building rules that will keep prices low.

EDIT:it seems that it's possible legally to start a city with your own rules(as long those doesn't conflict with US/state/county laws):

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3bnzp3/e...




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