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.

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