Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative

> all we want to do is advance the concept of direct cash transfer

I love the simplicity of this. I've been thinking a lot about generosity myself.

And while I don't have $100m, our family also has everything we need. What ideas, resources and tools are there for folks like me who want to be as generous as possible with what we have?

To start, I've set up a Donor Advised Fund because I learned that it's a great way to do something with a bunch of appreciated stock that I don't want to pay taxes on. What other tips do you all have?

This is better than nothing, but the big advantage of the UBI is that there is no bureaucracy deciding who gets it and doesn't get it. If there are any conditions on the income, then there's a constant danger that the program will become another tool of control.

I’m not sure which parts are supposed to be new since his previous post. [1] I think it’s the website? [2]

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-road-not-taken-is-guarante...

[2] https://rgmii.org/

If AI and robotics reach their logical goals then projects like this are about to become more and more important. I don't mind machines taking all of the jobs, as long as all of those displaced workers don't starve.

"Those 10 words had a profound effect on the world. "

And are a paraphrase of even older words:

"From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked." ~30AD

And probably even older than that.

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Why rural Americans? The same amount of cash will go a lot further and likely be more effective in rural areas of other countries. The source of Atwood's wealth (Stack Overflow etc) is global, not American.