Palau: Stanford Ethics - Experiments in Unconditional Basic Income," Dear @JimYongKim @CondoleezzaRice @AnnieLowrey #JulianaBidadanure @Stanford Palau: Stanford Ethics-Experiments in Unconditional Basic Income, @WorldUnivAndSch seeks to create free universal education-high quality, online, in ~200 countries' countries ...," World University and School seeks to create free universal education as well - high quality, online, in each of all ~200 countries' countries and nation states, and their official and main languages, and indeed in all 7,097 living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning, * * MIT Tech Review - "Machine learning + satellite images = addresses for the estimated 4 billion unaddressed," 4 billion people in world don't have addresses (est.) per MIT, In what ways in #RealisticVirtualEarth (think Google StreetView with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth+) for #ActualVirtual correspondence could WUaS facilitate an #UniversalBasicIncome to end poverty?

Dear Annie and Juliana, (and could you please forward this email to Annie), 

Thanks for your great "Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World" talk and conversation about an Universal Basic Income at Stanford on Thursday - https://events.stanford.edu/events/797/79792/. Thanks too for your US economic (and political) realism perspectives, Annie. (And nice to have met you first, Juliana, in February of 2017 at another Stanford UBI talk). 

And thanks, too, for your responses at the close of this conversation to my individual questions about whether - per the MIT Digital Currency Initiative's mission to "empower individuals by making it as fast and easy to move value across the world as it is to move information" (https://dci.mit.edu/) - we could develop an UBI for all 7.5 billion people in each of all ~200 countries, and in their official and main languages, and indeed to peoples in all 7,097 living languages (re MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School), on smart phones and on bank cards, etc., as a way to distribute a single cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger backed by ~200 countries' central banks. Annie, I appreciate your observation that "the money would have to come from somewhere," and, Juliana, that "banks are predatory," and that when I asked whether you meant nation states' central banks, that you implied they are too. And that when I asked further, Juliana, whether a hypothetical "Bitcoin" or similar could emerge as such an international currency (post US dollar as a current de facto international currency, and post Euro, in its ~19 out of ~28 nation states, as a new regional currency, backed by ~19 central banks), that you implied a wariness of central banks as being predatory here too.  

In response, I wonder if the money could actually come from non-predatory central banks (and I realize that that may be an oxymoron, Juliana, in your thinking). But in planning in very broad strokes for an UBI for all 7.5 billion people (see this recent blog entry https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/11/damson-blockchain-ledger-open-course.html - for other aspects of how this might work), what do you think about planning to give ~ $1000 for a year to the rich people in the rich countries of the world, and a ~$1000 to the poor in the rich countries of the world too, indefinitely, and a some proportional amount per GDP (or similar) per country to the poor in each of all ~200 countries (with a focus here on helping the poor in the poor countries especially, and indefinitely, but - per what I learned in your Stanford talk, Annie - building on the existing social welfare schemes and programs in the US for the 320 million in the US, and building similar social welfare schemes and programs in the countries that have them and which may have been operational for generations, and also to develop new related programs in the countries that don't have such programs in relation to an UBI?  

I think that it could be possible to connect giving a hypothetical $1000 in 'Bitcoin" or other smart cryptocurrency to all 7.5 billion people (proportionally per country or similar) to their smart phones / bank cards / accounts / etc., for a year with all ~200 countries' central banks, and importantly, especially as a way to distribute a new single cryptocurrency universally. I'm also a bit in touch with the President of the World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and Stanford Professor Condoleezza Rice, 66th U.S. Secretary of State, whom I heard at another Stanford talk, "Human Capital and Technology: Building the New Social Contract" ... https://events.stanford.edu/events/804/80416/ on October 2, 2018, and who could be very helpful in these regards as well. I'm including in this email the MIT DCI Director Neha Narula, as well as President Jim Yong Kim, Stanford Professor Condoleezza Rice, and Larry Viehland, who's the Chair of the Board at MIT OCW-centric World University and School (https://twitter.com/JimYongKim - https://twitter.com/CondoleezzaRice - https://twitter.com/neha).

Looking forward to the Stanford UBI talks in January and March, Juliana, and thanks again for your timely, topic and thoughtful talk about an Universal Basic Income.

Thank you.

All the best, Scott

Here's a recent UBI Tweet at WUaS - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1066170966210895872

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