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Governance Team
Diagnosis: Ask 10 Americans to describe how our government works, and you’ll get 11 different answers. Half of each answer will be factually inaccurate, half will be whatever they saw on social media yesterday, and all will understate the dysfunction, corruption, and malaise regularly described by actual elected officials.
Team mandate: Reorient every facet of government around a single metric: increase the number of families that choose to live on a single income.
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Early governance seeded by New Athens launch company. Company is our mechanism for using private investment to get the city off the ground.
Shared goal up-front: single-income families
Shared enemy up-front: Regulating tech
Openly committing to redistributing wealth—and doing it smartly.
City controls a trust fund—a soverign wealth fund similar to Alaska’s.
Trust fund receives a portion of tax revenue.
Every month/year, portion of the fund gets paid out as dividend.
Shares in the trust can be bought and sold.
Every year, shares diluted and granted to permanent residents. (To ensure locals retain upside.) Parents of minor children hold their kids’ shares.
Three, we aim to solve the biggest problem with venture capital: it’s not accountable to normal people, and over time it drifts off the road until we get to today: the industry dumping its money into building a new race of digital super beings. The leaders of the AI industry tell us that, in this new world, we humans will be either side-kicks to the robots, or dead. …It feels absurd to even type this out, because obviously—obviously—normal people don’t want this, but even casual news observers know this is happening.
A quick recap: representative democracy keeps government accountable to citizens. The system creates stability and reduces the risk of bloody revolution. Thus, the US is wealthy, powerful, and not a Fascist dictatorship (yet) or Communist totalitarian hellscape (yet). Venture capital built the digital world with a new investment strategy: run lots of experiments on the cheap, then double down on the successful ones. This process gave us 9 of the 10 largest companies in the world—the crown jewels of the US economy—including Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Nvdia, and Tesla.
Security
most permissive gun regulations allowed under ohio law
training given to school resource officers available to all adults at no cost. training is for neutralizing active shooters.
Operations
Runs primarily on paper.
- Risk of cyber attack high and cost expensive
- Get people off screens and talking. Designing systems to enable serendipidous conversion is itself a technology