Great! And thanks for your reply! What I’m most interested in is answers to two questions:

1. How do we solve poverty? Previously I pointed out “stimulating demand” as a central problem; another perspective is to solve the paradox that there is both high unemployment and a lot of work that should be done (e.g. crumbling infrastructure, school closures). In the U.S., my tentative answer to that involves two pieces: a guaranteed-work program or UBI (the latter, however, requires several years of experiments and a large movement before a nationwide rollout can occur, so other reforms might be more attractive), and before that, corruption reform to deal with the dysfunctional congress: campaign finance reform and electoral reform.
2. How can we empower people like me that want to actively pursue “improving the world” (for some reasonable definition of this, e.g. “creating positive externalities”) without being so rigidly constrained to make a profit? My current thinking is that there should be a government-funded “open engineering” program akin to government-funded academic research (meanwhile, academia needs to move away from treating papers as its only work product, and put more value on raw data and software as outputs).

(In practice there’s a third problem: having figured out how to fix the world’s main problems, what’s a politically feasible path to implement those solutions?)

P.S. How do you have time to write such quality articles prolifically and be partner in TheFamily? (Hypothesis: that your main job is to be a thought leader, to educate leaders in TheFamily. Edit: hypothesis confirmed.)

P.P.S. don’t forget to link your original article forward to the new one.