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build a semi-automatic distributed kibbutz (or replace the Mayor with a block-chain) #15

Open davidtweaver opened 8 years ago

davidtweaver commented 8 years ago

So I was reading this Techcrunch article, this morning - the TL:DR is about using block-chains to create minimum basic income for San Francisco:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/21/and-realpolitik-for-free/

Would a similar approach work in Liverpool? Is anyone interested in trying?

At a time when the council's budget is increasingly cut, perhaps the council could act as a kind of brokerage between kibbutz units, taking a cut of transactions to maintain infrastructure?

(Yes, I am aware that I'm hopelessly utopian, but I'm just throwing this out there.)

amcewen commented 8 years ago

Nothing wrong with ambition ;-)

I haven't had chance to read the article, but if feels to me like you'd need to start a bit smaller than a whole city for replacing the governance. Are there smaller experiments that could be done to prove (or disprove) the tech/concept? How would you get the idea across to people who haven't heard of minimum basic income or blockchain?

davidtweaver commented 8 years ago

I was being mildly flippant about replacing the mayor, but it might be fun to play around with basic income generation on a small scale, if anyone is up for some social experimentation?