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If we are actually looking to close tax loopholes and raise revenue*, we should look at the ~3.5T a year ‘non-profit’ industrial complex~ https://t.co/GwgvuoibvO
-Starting an angel fund, fellowship, or grant program to support people or ideas you like
Nadia Asparouhova • 27: Friend groups
Embracing Paradox
Exploring the balance between opposing principles in investment, such as trust versus skepticism, patience versus urgency, and transparency versus confidentiality, emphasizing the importance of harmony in decision-making.
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eBay founder Pierre Omidyar became a major progressive philanthropist with a particular focus on supporting journalism.
Since the election of Trump in 2016, he now widely funds social, financial, and legal attacks on Silicon Valley.
Read the new Bismarck Brief! (link below)... See more
when resources to improve the lives of the poor are scarce, how can we get these resources to go further – much further?
Bjorn Lomborg • Prioritizing Development: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
If the purpose of each corporation is not primarily the health and well being of the earth and all life thereon, if its principles are not based on equitable distribution of power and wealth, if it avoids responsibility for the sustenance of family, community and place, if it has no belief system, or one devoid of ethical and moral content, it is... See more
Dee Hock • CORPORATIONS: THE SOCIALIZATION OF COST AND CAPITALIZATION OF GAIN
The government should open source 100% of its software
This is apolitical and lowers the cost of running the government, while also increasing the quality of the products and services it provides.
The Federal Source Code Policy pilot program already requires agencies to release at least 20%... See more
Sahil Lavingiax.comWe could do something called the American Equity Fund. The American Equity Fund would be capitalized by taxing companies above a certain valuation 2.5% of their market value each year, payable in shares transferred to the fund, and by taxing 2.5% of the value of all privately-held land, payable in dollars.