Update January 2022: The experiment has "unfortunately" not found favour. I have not found a single application video. As promised, I have transferred the money via the organisation "Effektiv Spenden Schweiz" to the aid organisation GiveDirectly. And I am confident that it will be put to good use.
... and here is the speech text as it should have been exactly :)
Hello I'm Tom
And I wish you a wonderful new year.
I would like to do an experiment in 2021.
I will give away 21'000 USD this year under three requirements.
If I don't find someone who meets these three requirements in my eyes, I will donate the money to the charity "Givedirectly.org" at the end of the year.
So what are my requirements?
- I have a great respect for entrepreneurs. In my eyes, these are people who manage to create something real in the world of things from an idea, and by doing so, they can offer jobs, for example, which enable other people to make a living. My first requirement is therefore that you have to convince me with a business idea, which acts in the sense of the LUTTAI intelligence definition. Which means, you have to show me why your idea increases the well-being of as many fellow human beings and/or as many other sentient beings as possible.
- I have great respect for entrepreneurs, but I have absolutely no respect for the most common economic model, which in my eyes strives for maximum profit maximization and maximum financial wealth. This model has failed catastrophically in my opinion, so many people benefit from it and so many suffer from it. My second condition, therefore, is that you would have to be willing to operate according to an alternative economic model. And this looks something like this, about details we can then gladly talk, or improve this model together.
Everyone in your company, including you, earns the same amount until the point is reached where every employee can be paid the minimum wage of at least the national median wage. If you manage to reach this point with your company, the further profits are divided by 2. Half is given away after deduction of taxes in the same way as I would like to do now with this 21'000 USD. The other half can be used to make provisions for worse times or to make wage increases. The maximum possible wage, including the boss, is 4 times the minimum wage. Some additions you can find on my homepage.
- My 3rd condition is that if I want to support your idea, you have to show me credibly that lack of money prevents you from realizing your idea. An idea is free and can therefore have each of us, money has unfortunately not each of us. I have a bit more money than I need at the moment by pure chance, so I would like to give you some of it if you have a sensible, intelligent idea what to do with it.
If you can accept these three requirements, then please proceed as follows:
Make a short video (I hope you have the resources) preferably in English, and upload it to YOUTUBE or Facebook, Instagram works aswell. The video quality is secondary, what matters to me is your idea.
Please label the title as follows:
- #LuttaiTeamHuman_your country_your name_your idea title.
- First tell me your name and in which country you live.
- Then please explain your business idea to me or to the whole world.
- And then, very important, explain why you think this idea would increase the welfare on this earth.
- Then tell me how much start-up capital you need to begin the work.
- And then include your contact information so that I or we can find you.
I will be on the lookout this year and hope that at least one idea will come to me that I think is worth supporting. I know that 21'000 USD is not even a drop in the bucket, but I hope that many people in the privileged situation like me will look for your video and maybe support you. I also hope that this video will find its way to countries where 21'000 USD are worth more than here in Switzerland. So I thank you already now if you forward it to your friends in such countries.
If someone other than me will support you, then of course you don't have to follow my proposed economic model, it is only one among many possible economic models. I primarily hope that your idea will succeed for the benefit of all of us and then you will also pass on some of your financial success.
If you upload a video, then at the moment three disappointments come to my mind, which could come to you and for which I would like to prepare you.
1. it is possible that I and no one else will respond to your video.
2. it could be that someone else will see your idea and steal it from you and have financial success with it, but not involve you in it. You have to expect this disappointment as well.
For the world, however, it does not primarily matter whether you or I have economic success; what seems important to me is that as many sensible ideas as possible have financial success and that these ideas are then hopefully also embedded in a sensible economic model.
3. The third disappointment can come to you in the form of laughter from your fellow human beings. Unfortunately, some people still tend to laugh at other people and if you go public, then you have to expect that you will also be laughed at. I can only promise you that I will not laugh at you, because you show great courage to share your idea publicly with me, no matter what your idea is.
I too am trying to build a business with LUTTAI, and I too have a high chance of failure, I have not earned a dime with LUTTAI, at least to date. But even if we both fail, I am sure that when we are on our deathbeds one day and look back, we can at least tell ourselves that we tried.
I sincerely hope that you will succeed with your idea. If you get support, please put it in the title of your video like this, so we know you are working and we can support other ideas: "Name of suporter" helpt me, i can start to work now#LuttaiTeamHuman...
That brings me to the end of this video, I will announce at the end of the year at the latest who I will support or if I will donate the money Givedirectly.
Finally I would like to make a free investment tip for all people like me who have a little more money than they need for their desired lifestyle: let's invest at least a part of our money in humanity and not in stocks, I'm pretty sure the dividend will be priceless.
Let's look ahead.
Let's do better.
Let us try to act intelligently.
And now I really hope you have an idea and the courage to share it with me, if you have too little money.
And if you have enough money, I would be very happy if you will also support an idea.
If you find this experiment meaningful or you also want to support ideas financially, then please let me or us know, I think in a team you just feel better. Feel free to use the hashtag: #LuttaiTeamHuman_21000USD.
And now I wish you not only a happy new year, I also wish you enough to eat, a safe home, self-esteem, good health, a family, true friends, a purposeful task, a lot of confidence and love.
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