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Wings to Fly — a Platform for All
Let’s get Andrew Yang’s “Freedom Dividend” to become real and serving everyone.
Some of the best ideas are the wackiest — at least in the beginning. Some things, sometimes seem — well, just impossible. Take getting buffalos to fly, for example. It may turn out to be not that difficult once you have relaxed the brain and flown past variations of physically attaching wings to these hefty bovines. Answers include hitching them to hot air balloons and roaring the flame for that beautiful lift into the sky. For even faster travel and more efficiency you could simply load them on an airplane, and take off — buffalos are flying.
Our Universal Basic Income needs wings to fly — big wings! A special airplane has to be built, an enormous Spruce Goose that really has lift. The exact materials and shape are not as important at this time as our goal and the commitment to making it happen — like “Let’s go to the moon” from centuries back. One thing for sure, the solution will not be simply pulled from of an existing hangar. We are definitely looking at something new — and big! Getting the roof on the Sydney Opera…
