I read one of your replies and tried to reply to it but I can’t find where to do that. Your comment doesn’t show up in the article (on the app), only in the notifications. You linked to this post from your comment so I’ll reply here.

This sounds like a few ideas I’ve heard and also mentioned where everyone gets a fair share of the commons (you can acquire more but everyone gets a fair share vs nothing). And similarly UBI as a remuneration for loss of the commons.

Unfortunately, I don’t know what options mean and some of the other terms you use. In this article could you make a summary for the common layman? It’s sounds like a national or sovereign wealth fund?

For your comments on my post, the picture that has been painted about native americans and life on the frontier I believe is a lie. And there is a difference between the experience of the settlers and the experience of the natives.

Thomas Paine observed and said the life of the the native american was like a continual holiday. There were millions of buffalo roaming the plains. There were flocks of birds that would darken the sky. There was so much abundance in the americas it was an abundant world to the colonists who first observed it.

The book Frontier Living from the 1950s talked about how some people would never work a day in their life (they ridiculed them in the book) but they admitted it. There was abundance and an open commons among members of tribes and sometimes between tribes. And while there was fighting there was also peace. The Constitution is based on the Iroquois Confederacy a peace treaty that existed between native nations.

The South Carolina lands were so rich with game the natives from different tribes from all over would regularly go in to hunt and gather what they needed and then return.

In that same area in South Carolina after the Europeans arrived, they completely decimated the game and wild life in 40 years. For skins to sell for whatever reason. The Europeans over consumed the natural resources. Later we all know the american colonists killed millions of buffalo to kill the food supply of the natives. There was no poverty and no homelessness in all of the americas before the Europeans arrived. Not in the same way as in Europe. The Europeans brought poverty and homelessness with them. Henry George also confirms this in Progress and Poverty.

I don’t know why all the lies were made but probably for the traditional reasons. In school they would say look how good you have it, look how bad things were in the past. look, there was only starvation and scarcity. btw nothing else works but what we have. And, a very important distinction I’m making is I’m not saying is not “in the past it was this way” but “in America in the past”. In Europe, it was a different story.

They took natives to England and showed them the homes and cities. None of them said they would trade places. There was no rent no mortgage no loans in the americas. They probably didn’t even have a word for homelessness. “What do you mean homelessness? I can go built a home right here right now in in a few days.” Even for the settlers for a long while you had cabin rights. You could build a home and raise in a few days.