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[โ€“] brewery@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I was thinking about this last night. In wars we often issue war bonds and people go around asking everyone to contribute what they can. Why not reinvent this but concepts including co-operatives, employee councils, kickstarter, social awareness, community awareness, inclusion of minorities and socially disadvantaged people, etc.

How about a technology investment bond, or a direct investment fund into new enterprises to build these up.

Shame the rich to invest into them instead but we know that won't work so let's all invest so we don't have to rely on them.

I know it's politically challenging but I would happily invest my pension pot into companies to improve our European tech in a socially aware and fair system, than the current US stock market it's half made up of (I will change this!). Hell, just give grants to the open source community to develop things and let everyone in the world benefit