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How Self-Taxing Changes Your Mind

How Self-Taxing Changes Your Mind

I have enough money, so I self-tax myself [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/test-we-should-tithe-more-and-where-im-personally-giving-20-of-my-income/] 20% post-tax ($900/month) to give to support civil society. By categorizing this 20% into a special self-tax bucket, this money now has a completely different texture. Instead of "money for self", it is "

Carbon Offsets as a Service

Carbon Offsets as a Service

I recently realized that Fred Wilson's "Funding Friday" [https://avc.com/category/crowdfunding/] is an example of self-taxing. In this vein, I'd like to experiment with #SelfTaxSunday! Today, I'd like to talk about Carbon Offsetting. Remember [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/test-we-should-tithe-more-and-where-im-personally-giving-20-of-my-income/] that:

Getting $1000 of Free Stuff

Getting $1000 of Free Stuff

I write a good amount [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/test-we-should-tithe-more-and-where-im-personally-giving-20-of-my-income/] about the paradigm shift towards the abundance of capital. This is an abstract concept that is sometimes difficult to conceptualize, so I'm always on the look out for concrete/physical manifestations of abundance. Thus far, I've

Religious Tithing

Religious Tithing

Institutions are complex systems that all have a central goal: to sustain themselves. “Continued existence” is the only must-have goal of any complex system. This implies an interesting exercise—for any type of institution, how does it sustain itself? We’re familiar with how states sustain themselves (taxes), and how

Axelrod’s Theory of Cooperation

I recently wrote about my mindset towards giving, titled: We Should Tithe More! However, creating organic, bottom-up, “selfless/cooperative” behavior is difficult (without some centralized coordination mechanism for cooperation, e.g. the government). This article explores one way to organically catalyze cooperation. Applying Theory of Cooperation to Universal Tithing In

Universal Tithing

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Universal Tithing

We Should Tithe More! (and where I’m personally giving 20% of my income) Hi! The goal of this article is to show: 1. Why “universal tithing” is a key leverage point for a global paradigm shift. 2. The charities I tithe to. tl;dr * I donate (tithe) 20% of

Factfulness

The goal of this article is to explain why adding a 5th level to Hans Rosling’s 4-level income “map” is both more accurate and will vector us towards a more positive future. 👇 Instead of “Developing” and “Developed”, 4 Income Levels In Hans Rosling’s book Factfulness, he presents a

Giving $3000

I just donated $3000 to 6 causes (yay!). The goal of this article is to explain both: 1) Why I donated and 2) How I chose the 6 causes. The highlights are: * I became carbon neutral for the last 4 years of my life! (For $50) * I supported a year’