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RE: Have you Heard about VIVAcoin?
Really interesting, and a very well made presentation. Not only does this sound really promising because there is a very clear reason for it to exist (a lot of projects come across as quickly assembled copycats of something else), but I love the fact that there is a long term vision. Which is me saying that I'm sick to death of "get rich quick" schemes.
In an unrelated aside, I originally ended up here on Steemit because a Facebook friend had posted one of @williambanks' articles about Viva on his FB feed.
Wow! Thanks for the compliment! Wonder who that was though?
Very "very alternative" friend Kelly who lives in Vancouver, WA... he's a big Basic Income proponent; I have no idea whether he followed up with Viva or not. I should message him and ask...
Interesting, we're at , at least 2 degrees of separation and counting.
I'm always interested in how tight the social graph is between any 2 random people on the internet.
Thank you! I'm with you there on the long term view. It's rather hard (at least in my eyes) to view this as a means to simply line their own pockets. I do really see it as a means to have a meaningful impact for others...which I'm a huge fan of.
Hehe, he was just about the first person I met when joining up on here. It's definitely hard to not get drawn in to his posts. :D
What's close to my heart is the idea of "creating a better world." Of course, this is often the territory of idealists and visionaries... I tend to be more interested in the functional implementation and execution of such visions. The world is filled with brilliant ideas that are so contingent on layers of "if only" that they stand no real chance of coming to pass.
It's tricky to find balance between the "somebody's getting rich off this" and the "slaving endlessly for zero reward" perspective... both seem (to me) to be doomed to very different forms of failure. My favorite word in these contexts is "reciprocity." There must be an energetic exchange of some kind, be it skills for money, or time spent for benefits, or whatever... for me, Basic Income should be a tool to foster creativity and expression, not a ticket to check out of life and just suck on the teat of other people's efforts.
Wonderfully said! I can wholeheartedly agree with that in it's entirety.