michael_nielsen

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.

@mathpunk @mykola It amuses me that one advocate for a basic income to cover these was Milton Friedman.

@michael_nielsen @mykola I didn't know that, but I understand it was also mooted by Nixon.