Kin's GOT SOME WILDLY INNOVATIVE POLICIES
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A. Affordable Housing 🏡 is Where the H.E.A.R.T. Is
Affordable Housing is Where the H.E.A.R.T. is… Home Equity Accessibility through Residential Tokens, creating fractional ownership enabling true rent-to-own and a live-in fixer upper economy so that anyone can get in on the action of real estate appreciation.
B - The "Border 🧽 S.P.O.N.G.E." a Sound Perimeter and Shared Storytelling
The Border S.P.O.N.G.E is an acoustic “Sound Perimeter, path to Naturalization (in 2026) and Genuine Empathy” NOW with water aid and a translation-aided pen pal program matching those with grievances to those striving for a better life in America. Let’s help them come correct and understand one another..
C - Climate Change ♨️ Make C.L.I.M.A.T.E. Cool Again
“Make C.L.I.M.A.T.E. Cool Again” Comprehensive Legislation for Innovative Mitigation and Adaptation to the Environment VIA Collaborative, Local Initiatives Making Action Tangible and Effective. Think globally and act locally like Mitch Hedburg: “I’m gonna shave (the world) too..” as someone’s always shaving.
D - Digital-physical mail 💌 dMail USPS Overhaul
Say Goodbye to Email.
Reinvent email and the US Postal Service creating digital-physical mail or dMail, imposing digital postage on commercial senders solving spam and ushering in “dCommerce” supercharging the economy.
Dmail will help usher in dCommerce, a decentralized sharing economy anyone can plug into and begin to add value in. We can find upward economic mobility for the people not just letting all the money accrue to big tech. We will crack the “last mile distribution problem” through autonomy solving hunger, food waste and food deserts, building community and economies of scale. By subscribing to commoditized goods in bulk around common preferences and what I call a “Tokenized Life” we can make better use of all our stuff comprising a sharing+auto-bartering economy.
E - Education 📚 Pioneer "School Work" and the S.T.E.A.M. Engine
Education, the S.T.E.A.M. Engine & “School Work” pays kids to learn adding to the GDP not just their GPA via STEM Subjects + Art/Commerce = “We Shave the World.” Let’s build a virtuous feedback loop through a collaborative, open-source curriculum repository with version control. Just “fork” the lesson, make it your own and re-commit improvements.
F - Federal Debt is Ratcheting Up Exponentially, we need "The Public Ledger"
Federal Debt rises a Trillion dollars every 100 days now. Fortunately, it’s a Quantum Leap Year in 2028 (see Q). Give me 500 days and we’ll start shaving $1T OFF every 100 days with thrift and ingenuity. See “O” for Open Government and the “Public Ledger” giving the GSA, purchasing arm of the US more leverage to buy smarter.
G - "Get the F Out" of the FDA & deploy “The Food Chain”
“Get the F Out of the FDA!” Move it to the end of the USDA as the US Department of Awesome Food, leaving the Smart Drug Administration to get life-saving medicines right. This petition tees up an Omnibus bill including the “Food Chain” Act under the new USDAF handling all food on-chain to dramatically improve safety and quality.
H - Healthcare - Movement is Medicine & Mental Health Thru "WeHab"
Healthcare costs can be alleviated by solving obesity with my “Movement is Medicine” campaign, food desert mitigation via dMail and the Food Chain Act (G). Mental health can be improved with the WeHab pilot program: “No problem? No problem.” WeHab seeks to normalize therapy and serve as an onramp to get a wider cross-section of people seeking services.
I - Infrastructure That's Digital First
Infrastructure that’s digital first. The metaverse is dumb.. but if we model life on it FOR the “regaverse” (real world) we will live in better thought out environments whether metropolitan, rural or remote to comfortably accommodate One Billion Americans Strong by 2050. Tripling the population will save social security too (See “S”).
J - J.O.B.B.I.N.G. is the new "working"
JO.B.B.I.N.G. is the new “working” 😅 a made up word grasping at the changing attitudes and approaches to work. Let’s take the good parts of the gig-economy, solve for worker protections but bake in choose-your-own adventure career paths into dCommerce. How can we work towards our calling and recapture the social benefits of working together again?
K - Killings have to stop
Killings have to stop. I don’t wish to infringe upon the 2nd amendment. I also wish we weren’t spraying lead indiscriminately. Prohibition approaches though may just drive a market for “ghost guns.” Instead, redirection initiatives and WeHab mental health services will play into a broader campaign to reach the lone wolf with love.
Surely there’s a bit of slack to tighten up in terms of gun control, but heavy handed regulation is (pun regretfully intended) going to backfire. Think back to alchohol prohibition. Let’s see.. did that work? It just made it go underground and caused more harm than good. With the advent of “ghost guns” that can be printed these regulations won’t work.
There are scores of gun enthusiasts, sportsmen and women and collectors who relish in this stuff. I grew up in a hunting household. My dad used to wake me up before heading out to hunt with “It’s daylight in the swamp.” It was never daylight.. a good 90 minutes before the crack of dawn rather as we made our way to our stand. My dad’s dad would wake him up with the same line. It’s a tradition.
Traditional methods to curb the violence will not suffice. We gotta get creative here. We need to cross disparate domains and skill/passion share to build understanding of where people are coming from. Plus, it’s fun to try new things. Maybe some hunters haven’t gardened. Maybe some gardeners haven’t hunted. Perhaps cross-pollinating these two camps and doing a documentary on what they learned, enjoyed, liked or disliked about the other experience could teach us something. Hell, maybe we can find a way to combine the two and shoot/plant trees into the hills or some shit. I don’t know. I’m just saying this one is going to require emotional disarmament first and foremost as we fold this conversation into the broader mental health crisis dialogue.
L - Land Management & the H.E.I.R. program
Land Management & the H.E.I.R. program offers a path for our beloved Boomers to cement their legacy with a sweetheart deal turning part of their estate into a State carving up the likes of Calivada (CA + NV) or Arkahoma (AR + OK). A 250 Year Lease on up to 100M+ acres of public lands to combat debt.
M - Money & The Digital Gold Standard Through the "Honest Abe Act"
Money is a story with a promise in it. The Honest Abe Act will save the dollar from its impending demise via “The Digital Gold Standard.” I have a clever way of pulling it off without sacrificing privacy, or require some hasty transition away from physical money. Hint: Save your pennies.
*Bonus M - The Media, Get it Fixed with Kin's TV & Repair!
You may have seen my “Kin’s TV & Repair” bit or heard some of it by calling 419-KIN-VOTE. It’s silly, but seriously.. this could turn the tide in the disinformation age we find ourselves in.
Part of the problem is that the business model of news was broken by the internet. Fewer actual journalists exist in the wild and even their resources are spread too thin to effectively do the reporting necessary to keep us informed. The internet, when I was a kid, was billed as the “information superhighway.” Yet we just paved paradise and put up a paywall block.
How can we fund journalism and yet get it for free? Sounds impossible right? Well, not anymore!
Introducing the Free P.R.E.S.S. which stands for Public Reporting and Engagement Support System along with a new concept I call the 72-Hour News Cycle.
One of the pre-requisites for achieving the Free P.R.E.S.S. will mean breaking up Big Tech to some extent or twisting their arms to roll up specifically marked public-facing comments into a single public town square, visible without having to login, where people can “attest” to things. You can help “break news” however big or small. We need to break down the walled gardens of the web to some extent in order to form a collective hive mind of what’s actually going on here so we can make the most of right now. Think of it as a “veracity gauge” using a combination of technologies to codify reality as to help us ascertain the true from the false.
That brings us to this notion of the 72-Hour News Cycle, a combination of “old news,” real-time happenings and “prediction markets.” Some say history always repeats itself, others say it doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. The key takeway is that if we don’t learn from our past, we’re doomed to repeat its mistakes. We now have the technology to filter news and everyday goings on, through the lens of the past in order to gain key insights into what’s coming next all through a conversation aided by technology that could reduce our time spent staring at screens, yet help us become better informed. By continuously learning from each previous day, all the way back through to the annals of history, every day could have compound returns on your individual potential and our collective intelligence and output. That all culminates in us putting our money where our mouth is and betting on a better future through prediction markets. We can WILL a better world into existence this way, shortening feedback loops on what’s working and what’s not by creating economic rewards for people who can effectively predict the future. Humans hate uncertainty. Let’s take control of our future.
Part of these newfound economic spoils will go toward funding journalism as a public good.
N - Nationalize the Lottery for "Public Good L.U.C.K."
Nationalize the Lottery for Public Good L.U.C.K. which means Lottery Underwriting for Collective Knowledge, a new federal lottery system with skills based games that add value to the national interest of innovation. Don’t just play the odds do the math to increase your chances.
O - Open Government via the "Public Ledger" and the GET OUR ACT TOGETHER act
Open Government as a “Public Ledger” a fancy new record keeping system that literally underpins EVERY THING (deeds, titles, licenses and more) shedding light as disinfectant through transparency. It will manage budgets and purchasing processes as “smart contracts.” This is big.
P - Prison Industrial Complex, a Racket That's Beyond the Pale
The Prison Industrial Complex, a reprehensible for-profit racket bred by misaligned incentives between public defenders and prosecutors. Kin’s robot butler attorney chatbot may outwit your “real lawyer.” Judicial Reform is a must. Our “Through the Glass” letter campaign will paint a picture.
Q - Quantum Leap Year Innovation Prize
Quantum Leap Year Innovation Prize awarded every 4 years like the Nobel but with a Patent Reform Bill baked in that adapts and grows with the pace of innovation in and of itself. We can now write “living laws” as smart contracts that adapt with the times.
R - Reclaim Reproductive Rights with Mass Abstinence
Reclaim Reproductive Rights thru the Abstinence Challenge. This is your body. Don’t “give it up.” Take it back. We need mass movement here of the likes of the Women’s Suffrage hunger strikes for the right to vote.
I’ve got this incendiary bit.. “I’ve got some advice ladies should take.. that’s it.. THAT’S the advice. TAKE! You take what is yours in this world. Take back your body – by any means necessary.
The women’s suffrage movement secured voting rights for women. Today, if we could successfully spark a sex strike at scale, perhaps starting an “Abstinent August” could we twist the arms of ill informed men calling the shots with your body? Perhaps us basement dwelling men, in the meanwhile could put down Call of Duty during that time to become better men, worthy and capable of being a dad that you could even consider keeping and raising a baby with. Imagine if women held out until election season when the issue comes to a head? If men also rose to the occasion could we reclaim reproductive rights yet also, counterintuitively, see a new baby boom? That’d save Social Security.
S - Social Security - How I'll Save "The Birth Rate Ponzi Scheme"
Social Security “the birth-rate ponzi scheme” can be saved outright between the Abstinence Challenge if we’re lucky (by not getting lucky) and One Billion Americans Strong by 2050, comfortably accommodated thanks to the H.E.I.R. program (L) and self-sustaining shelter tech.
T - Tech Monopoly Busting & Go from Tracking Cookies to "Baking M.U.F.F.I.N.S."
Tech regulations to reclaim our data (the new oil) will take us from Tracking “Cookies” to Baking M.U.F.F.I.N.S. Monetized User-Focused Feedback Information Systems a permission-marketing paradigm to make “mass customization” a reality and higher quality goods feasible.
We start by regulating the pixel.. which drops the cookies onto your device that track you around the web. This could help supercharge the economy while delivering higher quality goods that genuinely improve people’s lives and foster community in the making.
U - Universal Basic Income "Every Someday" made possible through "Indie Automation"
Universal Basic Income every “Someday” the 8th day of the week 😅 via a 21-hour day alternate clock/calendar. I’m only half-kidding here.. this could be a fun thought experiment to ponder on while optimizing for a “work-hard-life-balance.”
V - Vote on Anything Anywhere, Anytime with "Dollars and Sense" on the dMail USPS App
Vote on Anything, Anywhere, Anytime with “Dollars and Sense” on the USPS dMail mobile app. Some say voting doesn’t work.. well, write in Kin and I’ll make it work for you like you’ve never before imagined.
W - "Watergrams" aim to safeguard and distribute our most precious resource.
Watergrams, aren’t just the efficient distribution of safe drinking water, it’s a framework and increment by which we can measure, monitor and manage it as if… oh gee I don’t know, like our life depended on it. Time to get a grip.
X - Xenophobia from ancient Greek means “stranger fearing.” We need to "Bridge the Great Big Misunderstanding"
We can now bridge “The Great Big Misunderstanding.” I know how we can cross it and if not make peace, sell it. Culture is a kind of treasure to share with one another.
Y - Youth Programs that support Elder R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Somewhere along the lines we stopped respecting our elders and it’s a true loss for youth, as elders carry wisdom and experience that isn’t readily accepted, but rather becomes the subject of mockery. We can curb that attitude and show our elders respect in every way by letting them show us what they can still do.
Combine the E.L.D.E.R. care framework to youth programs to bridge generational divide while engendering respect for elders as well as the precocious young guns out there who should be treated like any other human being and not talked down to.
Z - Zero Waste 🗑️ "Don't believe in garbage."
Zero Waste “Don’t Believe in Garbage”. This disposable lifestyle is trash. I used to sell $10K trash cans to Donald Trump and I don’t even believe in garbage. All I see are resources. Let’s rethink packaging from the ground up.