my political platform:
- electoral reform, particularly approval voting, score voting, STAR voting, and sortition/election-by-jury
- efficient taxes: we should only tax negative externalities (robust carbon and tax on the pollution from cars including tire and brake dust) and land rents. no sales/VAT/income tax or anything of that nature.
- UBI (to replace…
here’s a formula you can type into a spreadsheet to see how long your money will last.
=NPER(4%,yearly_spending,-principal)
for instance, if you spend 100k a year, then a 2m$ principal lasts 41 years. so if you think you’ll live no more than 41 years longer, a 2m$ is all you…