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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I am imagining the swamp almost like a flooded forest with stands of mangroves and intentionally managed, not over populated fish farms. Kelp farming is another possibility and if there is enough ground water pressure to keep the saltwater out, maybe even rice paddies.

    Houses that built with dolphin pylons (build a water tight shell that is partially submerged and not attached to the foundation conventionally but on pylons that allow the whole house to rise up and down with the tide and sea level change. Do away with streets entirely until you get to semi-stable dry land and use sustainably powered boats for travel.

    These houses have their temperatures moderated by the water they are in. (Which could be a bad thing as I recall the ocean has been at bathwater temperature recently



  • It seems like we need to build a system to guarantee a retirement. Maybe some kind of public pension? If you work thirty years, you’re fully vested in your own funds independent of your employer. Build it sustainably, everybody starts from the ground up, so that a portion of the funds coming in can be saved and grow in perpetuity. Might be easier to implement with a jobs guarantee, we should be training up more medical staff and environmental/sustainablity specialists anyway. Might be even easier if the government starts building housing to a passive house standard and part of your compensation is that you can lease-to-own the housing from the government as part of your employment. These high quality units would be incredibly energy efficient, and could be built-in ways that encourage regular micro-mobility use (walking, biking, e-bike).

    How could we afford to pay for all of this? By reclaiming the stolen wages of the working class and ending The Second Gilded Age.

    • Ending Nepotism - 100% inheritance tax over some reasonably high number pegged to inflation or a better indicator (maybe real value)
    • Wealth Tax - Progressive tax based on assets owned for those as similar number as above
    • Income Tax Reform
    • Funding The IRS
    • Business Tax Reform
    • Eventual Profits From Government Financed Worker Owned Co-ops (and supporting existing small businesses)

    Both the government run and worker-owned businesses can compete in the market with big corporations and force the corps to drive down prices. That way the government can moderate the financial sector (who is driving the inequality) indirectly through market competition.