michael_nielsen

So! Friends! How can we use our considerable capabilities to circumscribe capitalism to relegate it to the status of 'tool', not 'ideology'?

We need a non-financial way to explicitly and sustainably denote value. What mechanisms are available to us to this end?

Some random (and probably bad) ideas around this point:

Can we, using block chain tech, collapse the space between contract and payment? Etherium is doing some interesting work in this space.

@mykola (Not quite what you're asking, since it's about creating _new_ markets - more capitalism. But very interesting.)

@michael_nielsen then suddenly it's being used as a tool that anyone can leverage. Very interesting space.

@mykola The idea of packing assets to reduce risk, & thus providing money to poor people to buy houses is a good one.

@michael_nielsen @mykola Sometimes I think all we need is to redefine $0 to mean, the number that affords health care, food, shelter, edu.