# Vinay Gupta - Basic Income | London Real > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [700]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: video, 2014-02-07 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqRDBcasu9U. Text: automatic captions, uncorrected - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009), before the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Universal minimum provision. - Career works it belongs to: - The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas (2010): One-page paper: the richest fifth are eating the planet, so the next economy has to be at peace with other... (suggested by machine) - A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (2014): His "very conservative vision" for global change: six or maybe eight machines everyone on earth should... (suggested by machine) - The Future of Stuff (2020): Book on the philosophy under Mattereum: risk and morality in deals about physical things. (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. (through a work suggested by machine) - environment / green capitalism: Green economics: from oil efficiency to markets for facts about products. (through a work suggested by machine) - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. (through a work suggested by machine) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: basic income (4 here; 21 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); London Real (1 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); markets (4 here; 159 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 6 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.21 (1.00 is the top), number 354 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [677] [Vinay Gupta - A Radical Manifesto for Fixing the World (2021)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/677.md): close in content (cosine 0.90) - [747] [Startup Societies Podcast - Episode 34 - Vinay Gupta (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/747.md): close in content (cosine 0.89) - On the same works, just before: [689] [Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru | London Real (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md); [701] [Vinay Gupta - Gun Control Precedes Genocide | London Real (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/701.md); [696] [Vinay Gupta - Pandemic means Death? | London Real (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/696.md) - On the same works, just after: [316] [Vinay Gupta - Maker Faire UK - Newcastle 2014 (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/316.md); [172] [vinay gupta | be you. (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md); [73] [A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine | The... (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/73.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Vinay Gupta - Basic Income | London Real, video, 2014-02-07, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqRDBcasu9U; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [700], https://guptaoption.com/texts/700.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqRDBcasu9U&t=0s) London real sponsored by Bulletproof Coffee how would you like to see an eight-story building that rolls out of a sea container inflatable right you're obsessed with structures aren't you well I look what does everybody need they need some food they need some water they need a place to live they need some energy they need some telecoms right we can do all of this with new technology for the entire world without breaking a sweat right to provide for the whole of humanity in 1950 with available technology so nobody died of whack would have been difficult right to do it in 1980 would have been possible to do it in 2010 is getting to be just about imaginable by 2030 or 2040 it's going to be easier to do it than not to and what keeps us from doing this what makes that keeps us from the markets from being efficient um the markets are efficient okay the markets are efficiently concentrating wealth in the hands of the most capable people right markets are revolutionary and evolution is brutal right put the weak to the sword eat their carcasses that is evolution and people talk about Cooperative modes of evolution and you know social uh you know sort of group selection and all the rest of this kind of stuff yes but there's always a pre animal and the prey animal is the thing which goes down your neck capitalism is simply the praying of the strong upon the weak right okay if you want to have a social system that doesn't work that way you have to start accepting that the weak are going to be taking things from the strong strong in ways which are completely unfair to the strong but I'm strong I could do that it's my right I evolve to do it I'm going to do it right you begin to develop an anti- evolutionary culture now whether or not that's the right thing or the wrong thing to do is a moral decision that people make right from my perspective I think that we ought to make sure that everybody lives but I also think that we shouldn't do that at the express of the freedom of the strong because the strong are the people that are going to give us new options right okay if if you tax the Elon musks of this world into the ground the human race doesn't go to space on the other hand I don't think that we should have you know infer mortality rates in Detroit that look like Somalia right okay so what do you propose um I think there's a ton of room in basic income right I think basic income is really worth a serious luk whether it will work or not let's try it in some small countries first and see what happens basic income what's that so basic income you basically run run tax rate of around 50% and the government writes everybody a check for $20,000 a year interesting right so you you are [2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqRDBcasu9U&t=150s) going to lose half of your income to tax but you're also going to get 20K a year in the form of a grant not means tested and maybe 50% will be lost as it goes through the government no nowhere it's super clean right because you close all the social programs okay right everybody gets a chunk of money from the government and that's all the government does they don't do Health Care they don't do education they do nothing they just redistribute wealth I already don't like this but I'm still listening well I mean look if you're going to have a government that does redistribution best it does nothing else else okay all right or you can go down the libertarian path and do kind of long wall the strong stuff the thing about libertarianism is it's one of the few political philosophies that is genuinely intellectually defensible right there is no doubt at all that you can bolt that thing down to philosophical truth no questions asked it's just if we actually try it I'm not sure we're going to like it okay right again let's have you know you know patry Freedman no I don't so seing Institute okay right partry son of David Son of Milton Freedman okay yeah so Pat's out uh perspective is let's start some new countries let's try some crazy government ideas let's see what works and I think that this is essential right I mean capitalism runs on competition the state is currently immune from competition because if you don't have the land you can't start a country and so we've completely stopped evolving governance and this is a freaking tragic right this this whole thing about representative democracy right how old is it 200 years right 400 or so in the UK but would sely American example so for 200 years people have voted once every four years everything else in the world has changed 200 years of voting once every four years in every other area life is speeded up by one or two orders of magnitude right transport a thousand times faster and cheaper and easier and you still vote once every four years right friend of mine runs an out called liquid law and they have a banner they hold up whiches 12 x's and what it says is in your wife lifetime that is your total contribution to the way that your government runs 12 times 12 votes 12 votes okay that's all you're going to get in your lifetime --- End of [700] Vinay Gupta - Basic Income | London Real. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [316](https://guptaoption.com/texts/316.md) Vinay Gupta - Maker Faire UK - Newcastle 2014 (2014); the most closely related, [677](https://guptaoption.com/texts/677.md) Vinay Gupta - A Radical Manifesto for Fixing the World (2021); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.