Set up a network of them, with an exchange program to keep the energy and excitement high and the community entrenchment and stagnation low.
Bring in artists and multimedia teams and construction crews and sound engineers. Make a 360 compound you could play in together. Hire editors and layout folks to profesionalize what we're making and donate it to art insititutions and community centres and libraries and schools.
Sponsor game design retreats. Set up con scholarships, hell, grad school scholarships for things like what Jessica Hammer does. Found your own game company to highlight POC and female designers.
I think these things go together well, as then there's hundreds of people making professional and awesome content. Alternating, switching out, never the same people for too long. Neat.
Note: I would not actually do this, because I'm not that noble, but...
I think it would be interesting to give $100 each to the 7 million poorest people on earth, just to see what would happen. Or maybe $1000 to the 700,000 poorest people on earth. A lot of people will argue that the money would go to waste, but I'm not so sure that it would. It would be an interesting experiment. What would the poor do if they themselves were allowed to decide what to do with grant money, rather than leaving that decision to a charity that might not be familiar with their needs and strengths? Would they dig wells? Start microbusinesses? Build a school? Buy a small solar generator rig to charge cell phones in their villages? Blow it all on something dumb? I don't know, but I'd like to find out.
Create a gamer commune where we just play and design and never have to work again.
ReplyDeleteLet's see, maybe 50 people at a time, yeah? Much bigger than that at community starts to fall apart.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm covering room plus board, plus hiring folks to do logistics (meals, cleaning, scheduling), then ... .
This is probably doable for a million a year. Sounds like a bargain at twice the price, which is probably what it'd actually cost.
Pretty much!
ReplyDeleteWe have similar plans if we win something like that.
ReplyDeleteBut guys, a mil or so a year is a tiny fraction of 700 million dollars.
ReplyDeleteI'll for sure setup a few million in an account I can't touch, so i'll always have the principle. Some sort of crazy ladder of bonds.
But guys, that's a scratch on the surface. This is a truly stupendous amount of money.
Even taking the annuity, that's still an average of 20+ million per year.
Even if i give away 10 million dollars a year to charities in the names of the bigots that hate them, that's still 10 million dollars per year.
Let's think bigger.
Set up a network of them, with an exchange program to keep the energy and excitement high and the community entrenchment and stagnation low.
ReplyDeleteBring in artists and multimedia teams and construction crews and sound engineers. Make a 360 compound you could play in together. Hire editors and layout folks to profesionalize what we're making and donate it to art insititutions and community centres and libraries and schools.
Sponsor game design retreats.
ReplyDeleteSet up con scholarships, hell, grad school scholarships for things like what Jessica Hammer does.
Found your own game company to highlight POC and female designers.
Oh, an endowed chair at Carnegie to do the sort of game design I care about. That's a neat idea.
ReplyDeleteI think these things go together well, as then there's hundreds of people making professional and awesome content. Alternating, switching out, never the same people for too long. Neat.
ReplyDeleteBuy and forgive student debt.
ReplyDeleteNote: I would not actually do this, because I'm not that noble, but...
ReplyDeleteI think it would be interesting to give $100 each to the 7 million poorest people on earth, just to see what would happen. Or maybe $1000 to the 700,000 poorest people on earth. A lot of people will argue that the money would go to waste, but I'm not so sure that it would. It would be an interesting experiment. What would the poor do if they themselves were allowed to decide what to do with grant money, rather than leaving that decision to a charity that might not be familiar with their needs and strengths? Would they dig wells? Start microbusinesses? Build a school? Buy a small solar generator rig to charge cell phones in their villages? Blow it all on something dumb? I don't know, but I'd like to find out.
Ron Stanley You raise a good point: endowing Give Directly is pretty high on my list.
ReplyDeleteAnd to be clear folks, this is delightful fantasy and things I say here are not contractually obligatory for when we win.
Could be we'll just give it all to BLM. Who knows.