The road not taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income (blog.codinghorror.com)

I was at the talk Jeff gave earlier this evening at Cooper Union and I came away with a strong conviction of the power of this idea. To learn more, check out https://www.givedirectly.org/rural-us/

I think the American dream had a few conditions that might not be repeatable:

1. Pretty much all Non-American part of the world has SHTF moments;

2. US was an expanding empire;

3. The aristocrats were wiser;

This is a breath of fresh air for me. I am so grateful that a portion of society has held onto their empathy and moral compass while becoming very successful.