michael_nielsen

@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.

@mathpunk @michael_nielsen huh. It's not an irrational idea, the way it sounds under capitalist ideology (broken record here, sorry).

@mykola @michael_nielsen I have other ideas, thoughts, schemes, but UBI as "capitalism up to affine transformation" seems small & possible

@mathpunk @mykola My fave crazy idea: money with values chosen from a (non-compact) non-Abelian group. Breaks lots of conventional ideas.

@michael_nielsen @mykola Please blog about this. If it's too weird you can anonymously guest on mine :)