[UPDATE: This idea had me excited for a time but I'm not doing it 😁] I'm having trouble getting an MVP up that uses PayPal or another provider like Stripe; these platforms seem to be weary of money just getting sent places for, "no reason", due to concerns over money laundering and other nefarious activities. So I've decided to just pl...

I have found a few projects to create universal income schemes without waiting for governments. Here are the ones that I have found, Comingle https://www.comingle.us/ Still yet to be launched but just completed a successful Indiegogo campaign to get up and running. The landing page gives a great example of how a private scheme like thi...

Talking to people, they cannot really get why I would want to get something like a Universal Income Cooperative off the ground. Listening to them for so long I'm struggling to get it myself, I forget why I wanted to do it in the first place. But every now and then, I start reading something and I remember. Everywhere there are places w...

I have been thinking about the goals of a Universal Income Cooperative and have come up with the below... • To Transfer Pledges at the Lowest Possible Cost • To Have a High Degree of Trust • To Have a High Degree of Transparency • To Increase Support for Universal Basic Income • To Connect Everyone Living on this Planet • To Communicat...

I wrote in this post about my idea for a Universal Income Cooperative and have been asked, "why a cooperative?". A cooperative would be an ideal structure because its strengths align with the goals of such a scheme. Run for the Benefit of its Members This is important for an enterprise that is aiming transfer as much as possible to its...

Recently I've been reading Rutger Bregman's, "Utopia for Realists" and "Humankind: a Hopeful History", and was excited by the idea of Universal Basic Income and thought it could be the answer to all of humanity's problems: Poverty, Nationalism, Climate Change, Planned Obsolescence, and our lack of collective vision to name a few. I beg...

It was a funny time, I'd just said good bye to Rose in Vancouver, it was February 2020, and the virus was spreading in Wuhan and was popping up in Iran and Italy as well as (we would later find out) Washington State where we had just spent a night. "See you in a few months or so" once this all blows over...

....or should I say, "Hey world" 🤭