> People studied the UBI idea and recognized the costs of giving money to everyone are so enormous that it's unworkable

This is simply false. Please provide sources for this claim.

Most implementations of UBI are comparable to the existing taxation.

> if you have a rotating team of engineers

That's the problem: burning out engineers.

Google has been developing a language to make it easier to change cogs in the machine.

The quotes from Pike are pretty clear:

http://nomad.uk.net/articles/why-gos-design-is-a-disservice-...

You need to define meritocracy.

There's plenty of excellent software engineers paid pennies to work on difficult problems because they live in countries with very low wages.

And plenty of people in silicon valley being wildly overpaid to copy paste javascript from stack overflow.

Not at all.

Sadly, that sort of thing gets boosted on HN & calling it out for what it is like you did gets your comment turned grey & flagged.

Plenty of companies provide mostly unhealthy snacks.

Also, encouraging workers not to spend time out of the building is not so healthy, physically and mentally.

And it's not meant to be a perk. It's mean to keep people glued to the chair.

Go outside. Don't eat the donut. You are not a NPC in some game. Do your thing.

And yet, on average, nudges work.

The article makes a good point about the dumpster fires named ansible and docker.

Not at all.

> non-standard hacker in the US

non-standard hacker? Most hackerspaces and hackers communities are strongly aligned with Anarchism (and therefore socialism), at least outside of the US.

Excellent project! I hope it gains traction.

Can you please clarify on the docs why it uses a blockchain and how it is mined or otherwise generated?

Hi, sorry for the late response, I thought this thread was dead so I stopped checking.

There is no mining. The blockchain is a permissioned system that uses byzantine fault tolerance. So the current working idea is different regions would have their own server that participates in the network and facilitates the transactions.

As for why it uses the blockchain, the idea here is less about currency, and more about making a system that enforces the smart contract layer network-wide. A lot of the costing is based on what would be smart contracts (in ETH for example) so making sure these trnasactions, given the same inputs, will always have the same output no matter who's running them is much more natural on a blockchain than any other system.

The project originally started as a postgres-backed app, but once I started thinking about federation between regions, how to do this transparently, etc...blockchain was just a really natural fit.