Engineer Living
A Gallery of Observations About the World and a Blog on How to Improve It
Improving America: Low Hanging Fruit
Low Hanging Fruit to Make America Better There a variety of laws and regulations that people have recognized are bad have created feasible alternatives and they still persist in America, these are the low hanging fruit of America that if changed will immediately...
September 2017 Topics
Philosophical question of the day: Guaranteed Income or Guaranteed Jobs. Also the failure of technology as a panacea, brain cancer cure setbacks, North Korea, lasers for fluids, the purpose of public schools, a carbon capture breakthrough, and Will Hurd young black...
Public Options vs. Private Providers
Public Services, Private Providers There are services that are essential for modern life and crucial for a competitive business. Over the past decades, America has fallen in love with private solutions and have privatized numerous services that have traditionally been...
Guaranteeing Full Productivity with Basic Income
By considering common concerns about the welfare system and basic income, a modified basic income could be delivered for a comparative cost as our current welfare system, eliminate poverty, support the working poor and middle class, and guarantee productivity from...
How to End Poverty: Expanding the EITC
Transforming the EITC into an Acceptable Form of the Basic Income Going back to the EITC in essence it works like a basic income for those in a certain threshold. So if we wanted to apply those benefits to all Americans how could we change the rules? The EITC has...
How to End Poverty: How to Implement a Basic Income
Current Programs Similar to Basic Income In the United States we have Social Security which is a cash transfer from the working to the retired (if they are over 65) whose payout is determined by the amount of money you put in your working years. It is funded by a...
