Philanthropy for Hackers

http://www.wsj.com/articles/sean-parker-philanthropy-for-hackers-1435345787

by petethomas • 11 years ago

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meira• 11 years ago

This guy needs to wake up.

kentt• 11 years ago

What do you mean?

brosky117• 11 years ago

I think this is spot on. And he's backing up what he's saying with his own money. I hope the best for him and everyone he helps.

brokencup• 11 years ago

GiveWell[1] and Open Philanthropy[2] would probably be of interest here. (I am a donor to some of GiveWell's recommended organizations but otherwise not affiliated with them)

[1] http://www.givewell.org/

[2] http://www.openphilanthropy.org/

melling5• 11 years ago

I've recently donated to the mosquito nets. I don't see where they recommend institutions for medical or scientific research.

reasonattlm2• 11 years ago

You might look at Peter Thiel's presentations on radical philanthropy or venture philanthropy for a similar view on how philanthropy at the institutional level might be changed. He's been arguing for years that the balance of risk and how money is put to use in the philanthropic world is well out of line with the goal of achieving meaningful results, changing the world rather than just propping up present situations, and rather than the very conservative way it runs now it should look a lot more like venture funding:

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_16792615

So that view seems to be spreading, which I think is a good thing in the long run.

Of course as I've argued in the past, I think that the best thing everyone could do with excess money is to donate to some form of SENS-like rejuvenation research to accelerate progress towards an end to degenerative aging. 100,000 lives are lost every day in really very horrible ways, the slow crumbling to a painful death, until we stop it from happening. It's just another medical condition, and the only think stopping the research community from producing therapies is money and the will to use it.

reagency• 11 years ago

The billions of people suffering from non age-related maladies and mistreatments aren't well served by devoting yet more resources to the health concerns of the wealthiest.

cconcepts4• 11 years ago

Well put. I'm happy to face the frailties of old age if I can just spend the hear-and-now trying to do something that matters for people less fortunate than me.

If we ever got to a point where some people had greatly extended their lives and/or eliminated death for themselves whilst others still faced premature death from a basic lack of the necessities of life, well then, we'd be an even more narcissistic race than I originally thought.

reasonattlm2• 11 years ago

Um? Of the hundreds of millions suffering due to aging, most are desperately poor. Of the 100,000 who will die today, most are desperately poor. The wealthier people of the world have access to better palliative treatments, better support networks, or even treatments at all; they are marginally better off as they head towards a death they do not want. Aging is very much a health concern of the poor, and the poor suffer more from it. Doing something about that starts with creating the treatments.

Treatments to repair the root cause cell and tissue damage that leads to degeneration will be mass-produced infusions when realized, since everyone ages due to the same underlying reasons. They will not be very expensive, their price trajectory looking like that for drugs today, assuming the regulatory environment remains consistent over the decades ahead. Ultimately they will be as cheap as older medications are today. But to get to that point you have to start by creating the treatments.

HBMac16• 11 years ago

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HBMac16• 11 years ago

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codinghorror• 11 years ago

Didn't Bill Gates set the model here for everyone to follow? This reads like an exercise in how many times he can use the word "hack" in an article.

gvickers• 11 years ago

I thought the same thing, 35 times...

logn• 11 years ago

30. The editors boosted it to 32. The automated links to other articles added the rest.

philip1209• 11 years ago

On the other end of the spectrum, check out the Detroit Water Project (YC alum) - which aims to solve a problem like a charity, but is structured as a profit-seeking company. Addressing inefficiencies can be helpful for society, even if you pursue profit.

tiffani• 11 years ago

Detroit Water Project founder here. Thanks for spreading the word, but we're actually a non-profit.

jonpaine• 11 years ago

This is exciting to see here! I’ve spent a lot of time and effort on the challenges surrounding effective philanthropy.

Prior to seeing it firsthand while managing IT for a non-profit, I imagined that the bottleneck issues were advanced technical challenges; things like capital smoothing and what I think of as elastic capital allocation: capital allocation directed by marginal cost (per unit-social-benefit) among a portfolio of operating non-profits. That stuff is exciting - and when it comes to fruition it will change the world in a huge way.

However, as you get into it you realize that even for high-performing and well-funded organizations, the challenges and roadblocks are much more pedestrian. They’re things like standardized metrics [1] and data collection when your program’s target members don’t have internet access.

Perhaps the toughest challenge is the most straightforward: the non-profit employees trying to tackle these problems are non-technical, with limited access to technical resources. They’re forced to become subject matter experts on impact metrics and analytics, data science and their database-of-choice all at once. It’s quite a challenge.

My passion for both the sector and the technical challenges led me to found sluce.io [2], which makes software that addresses this exact challenge for operating and supporting organizations as well as Impact Investors. I’m happy to discuss these challenges with anyone who’s interested.

[1] https://iris.thegiin.org/metrics [2] http://sluce.io

cdcarter• 11 years ago

Thank you for sharing IRIS. As a technologist for non-profits, it's something I've never seen before. Our industry is VERY fragmented.

Your point about standardized metrics and data collection is very key. Even the organizations that realize a benefit to being data-driven just don't have the staff background in what that means or how to do it. From programs to funddev, staffs are trying to work with the limited data they are collecting, and making poor extrapolations based on that.

Even working to implement good databases and good procedures can't make up for both executive level buy in and staff level training and understanding.

bjelkeman-again5• 11 years ago

Indeed. It is a bit of an uphill struggle, but we are starting to see change though. I think some people are really starting to get it. And yes, IRIS is interesting for some things we do too!

sobkas• 11 years ago

My advise: Try to not murder everyone while you build your tehno-utopia? Pretty please?

joyce• 11 years ago

As the executive director of a tech nonprofit (https://www.stellar.org/), this is a topic I spend a lot of time thinking about. Certain problems need scalable, open, global public infrastructure, like global open system for identity, money, healthcare, energy research, climate data, etc. Unfortunately, the current model of foundation philanthropy doesn't fund these kinds of solutions well because the current charity funding model focuses on funding "programmatic services" (programs that service recipients directly). To put in more familiar HN terminology, foundations prefer to fund front-end services rather than back-end infrastructure. But Wikipedia cannot exist without http. And who funds the development of http-like projects?

With the growth of the Internet and the open-source movement, we, the tech industry, understand why open protocols and technology are crucial to providing access and opportunity to more people. I am a big believer in for-profit companies too, but there are certain things in tech that should be executed with a more philanthropic bent. When asked why Stellar.org is nonprofit, decentralized and open-source, we reply, "Can you imagine if the Internet had been owned by a for-profit company?

The thesis of Parker's post in the WSJ really struck a chord with me. There is a unique role that technologists can to play in philanthropy. We understand infrastructure and we should be funding the big tech bets that the world needs. Our industry is full of the unreasonable optimists - let's take that optimism and invest in an unbelievable future:)

rabbyte• 11 years ago

Everything you're saying is great but I'm not sure I understand how a for-profit would be that different from a non-profit owning the Internet. Isn't the contentious bit on "owning" and not on "profit"?

MacsHeadroom• 11 years ago

Can you imagine if ICANN were a private company?

We could see insane gTLDs like .book and .diamond owned by large multi-national corporations.

Oh wait...

contingencies• 11 years ago

Here's a philanthropic project that won't break the bank: we need a museum to MDMA (ecstasy). I believe the logical place would be in the location it was first synthesized by the Merck company: Darmdstadt in Germany.

hauget• 11 years ago

Of possible interest: Students Helping Honduras http://ceciskids.org Organization takes kids off the streets of one of the most dangerous countries in the world (highest murder rate according to UN report released in 2014; ~90.4 homicides per 100,000 people) and gives them a home, proper food and education.

Also, org. is always looking for teacher volunteers. Please feel free to pass this along to anyone whom you think might be interested in helping. Cheers!

Disclosure: I was born in Honduras and am a sponsor/donor

bjelkeman-again5• 11 years ago

It is a good article. I particularly relate to the focus on “hackable problems”. The approach we took when we started was identifying areas in the international development sector where the combined expertise of a team of software hackers and people working in international development could make a real difference, working as a non-profit social enterprise.

Initially we focused mostly on knowledge sharing and transparency on how funds were spent, where the sector was deeply into paper report publishing as an acceptable output of major investments. We call these “cover your ass reports”, as they are primarily an instrument for the project owner to give to the donor/investor to show that they didn’t squander the money and used in an audit. Often the reports show no such thing, but the metrics used and the way people use data is often so poor that the only thing you can show is the money was spent.

As an extent of this we saw that we could make a big difference in providing better data collection and presentation systems. We took over a prototype field data collection system from a US NGO working in water and sanitation. They wanted to open source the software, which we helped them do, and we took over the continued development and running of it as a service. Our first work was primarily with western NGOs working in countries in Africa and South Asia, but soon our systems started becoming part of the infrastructure management of these countries. Projects to implement this is often a collaboration between a UN organisation, like UNICEF or UNDP, the country government and a number of local and regional NGOs. We have the whole rural drinking water supply systems for several countries mapped using this now, and a dozen or so in the works.

This is where the open source aspect what we do becomes really important we think. We are being asked to implement infrastructure and resource tracking systems for things like a country’s bridges, fishing stock, drinking water supply and schools to name a few. We believe that these IT systems will become nearly as important infrastructure as the things they are tracking. We have started to see that this is understood by some of the countries we work with, as they are asking for the data to be housed in their jurisdiction. We think also that it is important that these are open source systems, as when these systems are successful they are going to remain for decades in production. And many of these countries have no governmental IT infrastructure to talk about at all at this point and we think that by having governmental infrastructure running on open source software you have better control of it. You can choose where it should be run, by whom and you have the possibility to have control over it.

In the article he talks about getting political. Actually building software systems for governments to use, based on open source principles, trying to build the best thing we can offer them, is in my experience a way more politically powerful tool than anything else political I think we could have ever engaged in. With a dozen countries investing heavily with us in our systems and dozens more knocking on the door I think it is safe to say that open source software can be both deeply politically engaging in a positive way, satisfying to work with and have a real world impact which is impressive.

c4n4rd• 11 years ago

Caveat emptor: completely out of subject.

It seems that we want the new generation to think that a hackers is a young guy with a hood.

Can we just stop this misconception and show a picture of a "hack" as a "normal" person (i.e. any one working in a computer: young, old, woman, man, any race).

secfirstmd2• 11 years ago

As the CEO of a human rights and tech non-profit startup (https://www.secfirst.org) I've spent a number of years looking at the issue. I think the possibilities for applying technology to philanthropy are very high (we are currently doing that for the physical/digital security of activists, journalists and aid workers in high risk countries with our app Umbrella).

However, I would caution against an automatic rush towards techno-centric approaches. I've seen it happen so often that people get overly excited by the technology itself rather than really understanding what the end goal of it's use is. (I think one of the most common conversations I hear these days in the non-profit sector is "How do we build an app?" and "Let's run a weekend hack-a-thon and build a very complex piece of software" - without any concept of what problem they are trying to solve and what the real value added would be). I hate to say it but in reality, most non-profits are really, really bad at building and implementing technology - their structures, people, mission, goals, experience etc does not allow that aim. Often you find people paying way too much money to build tools that essentially end up with little or no use - because even if they work, the processes to implement them (training, updates etc) are not instituted. It's the digital equivalent of the aid agency who build a water well but doesn't train anyone to fix it or leave spare parts. But it's a shiny tool that can be shown off to the donors/media/public, so that unfortunately sometimes seems to be the main output. Also, most IT people in non-profits are overworked just doing basic network admin etc - and are not the right people or in the right position to do development. In fact, these days I often find myself asking - "How can we do this without technology?"

I think Sean Parker is pretty correct in his interpretation but the non-profit sector is surprisingly very driven by "trends." So one year everyone wants to talk about X because thats what donors want to talk about, so suddenly every NGO cares about X. Next year it is Y. Also, one thing that I've noticed is that Silicon Valley funders are generally quite risk adverse in their philanthropy funding - many are happy to donate to (very worthy I would add!!!) causes like the environment or earthquake aid but most are not willing to tackle some of the more controversial stuff like human rights issues in Russia, China etc - which contrasts with the great work of people like George Soros in that area.

Indeed I wish the non-profit sector had more of the startup culture - it's extremely hard for us and other small non-profits to get funded as the sector is dominated by traditional NGOs and very conservative funders. (Can you imagine an Angel funder in Silicon Valley saying they only fund "innovative" ideas by companies that have five years of existing accounts!). There needs to be more of a competitive concept of startup/failure/merger etc in the non-profit sector but unfortunately this very very rarely happens, so you end up with a cycle of "zombie" NGOs doing very little (with high overheads) but sucking up donor money - and then new NGOs with good ideas being locked out of being able to scale. Even the processes for applying for funding can be incredibly complex and essentially in most cases require an expert in the sector to be able to go through with the applications.

I've hoped for a long time that the brain power and resources of the tech sector can be applied more effectively in our non-profit space but I still think too often people with tech skill-sets are not used properly by non-profits. Why give a software programmer a hammer to build a house when he can build you software? At Security First we've managed to try to bridge that gap by utilising volunteers for Android/UI/UX/Copywriters/Testers/Security folks etc in a way which taps into their main skill-sets. It's a much more effective and rewarding thing for everybody that way.

vezzy-fnord• 11 years ago

Assuming HN is a correct window on startup culture (I would think it is), then that too seems awfully techno-centric. Obsession with new (in age, not actual concepts) technical stacks and constant reinvention while the myth of software innovation keeps being propagated are all too common.

bjelkeman-again5• 11 years ago

But you can take some of the great parts of that culture and what has been learned and apply it fruitfully. One has to make sure not to be sucked into the new, for newness sake, but there is a lot of good stuff to use.

bjelkeman-again5• 11 years ago

Can you imagine an Angel funder in Silicon Valley saying they only fund "innovative" ideas by companies that have five years of existing accounts

One way of getting around that for us has been to incorporate some of the best things we have come across into what we do. Essentially taking on those teams or their software. As we finally have the "five years" of accounts. (Described elsewhere in this thread.)

We are also teaming up with some of the larger NGOs and also governments where they essentially end up collaborating with us on the innovation side which has a hard time inside the organisations.

As you say it is sad how hard it is to get access to funds which are actually there, and it is sad to see what get funds instead, in the name of innovation.

secfirstmd2• 11 years ago

Awesome...I have never come across you guys before. Some very cool work you are doing!

HBMac16• 11 years ago

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Are you following this so far? Hang on this is about to get really deep. What if this newly formed Alliance of Free Nations invited each other country on earth to adopt this same constitution of humanity, and participate in The Universal Alliance of Free Nations? Suppose the newly Formed Universal Alliance of Free Nations, informed all of the other world’s governments, “If you refuse to adopt The Universal Constitution of Humanity the Universal Alliance of Free Nations will not recognize you as legitimate, and won’t have any economic associations with you. Did you understand the plan? We will offer voluntary participation in the Free Human Society to the entire planet. Each nation, business, and individual person on the planet is strongly encouraged to support the Free Human Movement, and join The Free Human Society. Those who Support the free human movement will be welcomed equally into our society based on honesty, and peace. Those who reject our goal of equal freedom for all, and peace forever will not be recognized by The Free Human Society. No Free Human will ever recognize a violent leader. We will continue to explore exactly how it is possible to achieve our goal of equal freedom for all and peace forever, but for now let’s discuss why these social changes are vital. Every one reading this must agree we are currently on a crash-course for world economic, and environmental devastation. I’m tired of people saying there is nothing I can do about it. Yes, there is something I, and everyone else can do about it. I’m doing my part right now, and I intend to instruct you on what you have to do also. Let us recognize the world’s problems, and find common solutions to them all. We must agree to protect our one vital asset, the planet we currently inhabit. Currently there are governments plotting the destruction of our economy and global resources. They are led by powerful and greedy people promoting their personal agendas for society. They have proven themselves more than willing to murder to promoting these ideas. This has been proven throughout history by countless millions of people being slaughtered in warfare. Currently, a select few government leaders have the ability to destroy our entire planet. There are still more who seek the power to murder us all. All the while we stand around hoping something will happen, and we will all be saved. Now is the time for action! These greedy leaders must be stopped, but how are we going to do this peacefully? Just keep reading, all the answers are ahead. We must agree to certain facts in order to save the future of humanity. Let’s think about one now.

Every time a Human Being is killed by violence, a terrible atrocity has occurred. Every murder is a failure by society. A human’s absolute freedom and personal independence has been stolen from them. The human victim has lost their inherent right to freedom, and to have a peaceful life. Their opportunity has been stolen, and their full potential will never be known. At times you will be asked to consider ideas that aren’t appealing. You are being asked to do this to help us come to some common conclusions. This will be one of those times.

Read this, and then close your eyes. Think about precious memories of the people you love the most. Think about the first time you saw your newborn child, or the memories of your wedding day. Think about your mother, and father. Feel the love in your heart for all of them. Now close your eyes and think about them being brutally murdered! I know you don’t want to; and you wouldn’t be asked if it wasn’t important. Close your eyes and watch the ones you love the most being viciously taken away. See the blood, and hear the screaming. If you didn’t cry; you didn’t do it well enough. Close your eyes, and do it again. Ok, enough of that. I’m very sorry, but we must all understand, every time murder happens; those painful feelings you just imagined, become very real to someone. Nearly everyone has someone that loves them. Every time murder occurs; pain and suffering follows. We must make a decision as a society that no human violence is acceptable. None of us can be completely free If we allow violence. If you live under the fear of being a victim of violence you can never be truly free.

Are we saying we are going to end all violence? Of course not; what we are going to do is solve the problems causing most of the world’s violence. Afterward, violent occurrences would become isolated incidents, not organized terror. Are we in agreement so far? Not really, keep reading things are going to get better. Why is it, if a government official or a famous person dies it important news, but if a bum dies in the street no one seem to even notice. Someone well known suddenly dies, the whole world takes notice. If the well-known person was held in high regard, their sudden death will be called a tragedy. If they happen to be a person that is considered to be powerful, or incredibly wealthy; the entire world may mourn for them.XXXXXXXXXXXXZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ What we must understand is, the Dead Bum lying in the street that no one cares enough to notice of, is the greater tragedy. The powerful leader, or the, famous person must have achieved much in life or they wouldn’t have become rich, and powerful. The bum on the other hand, was a wasted life. No one will ever know what this person’s full potential was. Society has failed once again. These are new ideas for society, and I realize it is hard to mentally digest them all at once. I hope I have at least gotten your attention. I told you things were about to get better. Can you imagine living on a city in space? If humanity is to survive, that is exactly the direction we must work toward. We will discuss this later, but for now; do you realize we are over populating our planet? At the same time we allow the exploitation of our natural resources. Scientific facts prove that modern society will completely deplete our planet of its fossil fuels. Fossil Fuel is currently the only energy source we have to power the planet. We must find other energy sources to fuel the future or live in darkness again. Science has also proven that certain life ending geological events have occurred, and will occur again. These events include several known eruptions of super volcanoes. Meteorological events have occurred on our planet also, giant meteors that have struck the earth’s surface causing massive destruction . This is not speculation, it is undisputed fact. These cataclysmic events have occurred before in history, and they will happen again in the future. The question is, can humanity survive such a catastrophic event? Life on our planet will eventually end. That is a fact. Exactly how long it is until that happens isn’t known. We can’t control volcanos or a meteor, what we can do, is improve our quality of life until the end happens. If we all decide to work together in peace, there is no known limits to human ingenuity. If we can simply put our differences aside, and agree to disagree in peace; there are no limits on what humanity will accomplish. If not, we will all kill each other. I told you things were going to start getting better. Modern society will be terribly affected, or will completely end by a catastrophic event. Either way you look at it, currently our society is doomed to eventual death and destruction unless we change our behavior. We must create a new economic and government system that can’t ever fail. This new social system will be called “Equalism”.

Here is our next matter to consider. A child’s geographic location at birth is the most important factor in their lives. If a child is lucky, they will be born into a wealthy family in an industrialized area. This child will grow up with luxuries most of the world will never know. Other children are born into war-torn areas, or areas of famine. There are tens of millions of children that will never have the opportunity to reach their full potential. These children will grow up, and live in the same horrid living conditions as their ancestors. Why? Think about this. If your own child was switched at birth with a royal prince, and no one knew but you; your child would grow up and be a Royal Prince. As a Royal Prince your child would be reared with great expectations for their future. There would be no cost spared in your young princess’s education. They would experience the best life has to offer. The point here is; any person that is treated like royalty from birth will grow to act like royalty. Doesn’t your child deserve to grow up in a society that expects royal behavior from everyone? Why should luck be the determining factor in how successful a person will become? Try to imagine a society in which everyone gets to explore their full potential. Seriously, Think about it. Why can’t we have this type of society?

HBMac16• 11 years ago

This is an excerpt of my manifesto "The Universal Constitution of Humanity." All copyrights are reserved by Hillary B. Mcclelland.

HBMac16• 11 years ago

Is this site exclusive for brainiacs or can us common folks attempt to solve complex problems of modern society? Has any of you looked over my submissions last night concerning the "Universal Constitution of Humanity" and "The Free Human Society?"

HBMac16• 11 years ago

Do you believe people are instinctually good, or bad? They are neither. All of us are exactly what we have been taught to be. From the moment we are born, we learn from other peoples actions. Everything that you understand has either been taught to you, or is a conclusion you’ve developed. I will use illustrations and examples through-out this publication to help you understand the facts, and concepts we are discussing. The prince that was switched at birth was one, here is another. Have you ever smelled coffee brewing? How did you know you were smelling coffee? The only way you could have known how coffee smells, is someone presented you coffee and you smelled it. You then drew your own conclusion of what coffee smells like. Have you ever visited a coffee plantation, or a coffee processing plant? Coffee has several different smells. It smells one way growing, another while it is being processed, and yet another when it is being brewed to drink. So, you probably have only been exposed to one of the smells of coffee. If you ask a person if they know what coffee smells like, they will most likely say yes. The fact is, they probably only recognize aroma of coffee, The actual fragrance of the coffee will vary greatly depending on whom you ask. If you ask the farmer, the worker at the coffee plant, or the consumer, all of them may have a different conclusion of what coffee smells like. They are all correct in their conclusion of what coffee smells like, even though all of their conclusions are different. This is the concept that we will build the free human society upon. We can all be right even though we have varying opinions of what right is. As long as I respect your right to freedom and a peaceful life, and you do the same, we have just solved the problems of human violence. All that we have to do is convince everyone to agree to the same set of general standards for society, and then enjoy their lives. We can create a society in which everyone has the opportunity to have a free and peaceful life no matter where they were born. Your children and grandchildren deserve this. Your grandchildren’s children and beyond haven’t done anything to deserve the society that we are poised to leave them. I will explain how these things are possible, please, just keep reading. Not every child can be born of royalty, but that doesn’t mean great things can’t be expected from every child. In The Free Human Society, every child will be born with a plan for guaranteed success. This will be discussed later as a main topic in this publication. Every living person deserves the opportunity for peace, and personal success. The Universal Constitution will guarantee equal freedom for everyone. Everyone will have the best medical care, education, and business career opportunities available to society. All of the Free Human Society will agree to live a life of honesty, and with-out violence. We will then create a society in which it is very easy to find peace and prosperity, if you live by some simple rules; don’t lie, don’t steal, don’t cheat. How hard can this be?

HBMac16• 11 years ago

In The Free Human Society, each person’s level of success will depend on the amount of effort, and personal drive they put forth in life. If a person sets goals to accomplish great feats in life, they will find the doors to success unlocked, and easily opened. If a person chooses not to be a leader, that is fine. The world needs human workers. If everyone tries to lead, nothing will ever get done. Common Human workers will also find it easy to achieve the ultimate goal in life; peace, and personal fulfillment. Above all, The Free Human Society recognizes the individual rights to equal freedom, regardless of a person’s economic or social position. Everyone has their own place in society; each of us deserves the chance to accomplish as much as we can. Different people will always hold different levels of importance, and responsibility with-in society, the point is, no one deserves more freedom than another person. No matter how much responsibility or influence you have in life, you should be equally free. Whatever your position is in society, we must work together in order to accomplish anything. No matter the position, or amount of responsibility one has; we are all equally significant to the final out-come of humanity. We all have our own importance in life, and each of us has our own responsibility to society. If we all do our part, humanity will remain forever free and peaceful. If we continue down our existing ruts in the road of history, we will certainly drown in the mire of greed, and mindless discrimination. The choice is yours! All people should hold great pride in the country of their birth, and their government. The human population, and government should be totally trustworthy. In this publication we will prove that this is not only possible, we will give you step-by step instructions on how we will achieve this ultimate goal of equal freedom for all; and peace forever. Are you ready for the future? Ready or not here it comes. We can plan out a peaceful future for us all, or we can allow ourselves to be killed. The entire future of humanity is now your personal responsibility. Once you have finished reading this you will be asked to make a decision, to draw your own conclusion. If you choose to support the Free Human Society, many others will also. You are about to be taught exactly how we can save humanity forever. If you decide to support The Free Human Society we will be successful, if not; I suppose we deserve the consequences. Are you ready to smell the coffee a little differently? Prepare your brain for another new concept. Why must we pay taxes? Could someone tell me who first came up with the idea of taxing? This was the world’s first greedy genius. What do we pay taxes for anyway? Is it because the governments of the world do such a great job leading us? Do we really want to give them our hard earned money? I don’t think so. What taxes are is a method for governments, and greedy people to control society, so there is no need for them in the Free Human Society. Taxes are a bad method for funding government. Taxes both drain the common wealth of society, and limits government spending. This is a losing proposal for freedom, and democracy as a whole. Our current economic system is destined to fail because of inflation. Inflation causes the price of all merchandise to continue to rise until no one can afford anything. In this publication, we will explore an emergency escape route for our economy.

HBMac16• 11 years ago

Hello, is any one reading this? What do you think? This is an exact plan for addressing, and offering solutions to all major modern problems. I thought that's what this site is all about. I have 131 pages of this and it isn't half finished. Would you like to jump in and help save humanity from itself.

HBMac16• 11 years ago

Ok, here goes. You are going to be asked to close your eyes and think again, but this time it will be pleasant. Try to imagine a government that is freely elected by the population, and is totally funded by itself. This government is totally efficient, because all that it does is what governments do best; spend money.

To entice thought, and heighten your curiosity, we will now briefly describe the Free Human Societies plan for the economy, and our governments. In the free human society, government’s primary roll will be to make a plan for the future of humanity, and then fund it. Elected officials will create budgets which provide equally and fairly for the entire world’s population. Government will not be limited to what they can spend, because there will be enough currency available to fund any project.

It is time to introduce another new term. The Free Human Government (FHG) is the Government of The Free Human Society. It will be formed to replace all existing governments. Exactly how we will do this peacefully is detailed in this publication. The Elected Officials of The Free Human Government (FHG) would swear to protect and defend the Universal Constitution of Humanity, which guarantees equal Freedom for all, and peace forever. This means that every elected official in The Free Human Government (FHG) will be responsible for equally serving the best interest of every living human beings. Elected Officials in the Free Human Government will be the highest paid people, and will be held in the highest of regard of all people in the Free Human Society. These independent patriots of an Equalistic Society must put aside their personal ideals in order to protect humanity forever.

HBMac16• 11 years ago

Where are all you hackers? Don't you recognize genius when it right it front of your face? Read this then let's have an intelligent debate.

Philanthropy for Hackers

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