SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the this-is-just-what-our-corporate-overlords-want-us-to-think dept.
You’d think striking it suddenly rich would be the ultimate ticket to freedom. Without money worries, the world would be your oyster. Perhaps you’d champion a worthy cause, or indulge a sporting passion, but work? Surely not. However, remaining gainfully employed after sudden wealth is more common than you’d think. After all, there are numerous high-profile billionaires who haven’t called it quits despite possessing the luxury to retire, including some of the world’s top chief executives, such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.
But it turns out, the suddenly rich who aren’t running companies are also loathe to quit, even though they have plenty of money. That could be, in part, because the link between salary and job satisfaction is very weak.
(Score: 2) by Murdoc on Wednesday December 14 2016, @02:25AM
I wonder if there is some kind of economic equivalent to open-source either already in existence, or waiting to be invented?
Funny you should mention that. I've long liked to think of Technocracy [technocracy.ca] as an "open source" style of economy. It's entirely voluntary, just like open source. It works better with transparency and sharing of information like open source, as opposed to "trade secrets" that companies like to keep. And infrastructure!
and then redistribute the rest in the most fairest and most efficient way possible: Infrastructure. Either set up an organisation or team up with local / regional / national government(s) (depending on scale of my fortune) to build lasting infrastructure that will benefit thousands of people every day.
Technocracy's katascopic methodology insists on getting proper infrastructure in place from day 1. It's a key component of efficiency which is an important part of the design. This might be what you (and perhaps even ledow) are looking for.