{"id":3208,"date":"2020-11-02T00:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T00:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2020-11-02T00:25:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T00:25:12","slug":"if-i-was-a-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2020\/11\/if-i-was-a-billionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"If I was a billionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn\u2019t care about space colonies or make more money. I wouldn\u2019t try to pollute the sky either.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019d do:<\/p>\n<h3>Plant and transplant big old trees<\/h3>\n<p>Mature trees are the best stuff ever. Seriously. The only inconvenience is the roots but if we can build smartphones and send rocket back and forth outside the earth, we can take care of tree roots ffs. If there\u2019s some engineering and new tools to be invented well, let\u2019s fucking goooooo. <em>\u201cDon\u2019t worry, it\u2019s on me\u201d<\/em>&#160; I\u2019d say.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A6yRo_jV_CU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d create nurseries of mature trees close to every single city and make sure that we plant some beautiful ass, tall and luscious trees around our streets. They naturally cool everything. They give us the good kind of shade. Bugs and animals love them. I have no interest in using more machines to do something that nature does wonderfully well basically forever, if we maintain our tree communities. Let\u2019s get it.<\/p>\n<h3>Engineer a complete way of building prefab, passive houses<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s obscene that this country is so big, with so much empty space and yet we struggle with housing! How on earth is that not priority number one to solve this by spreading our communities more, and more intelligently? We can do that! But we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pFDl2YVjWrc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The way we build homes today is straight outta the 1800s. Same basic 4 by 4, same techniques. Why? Because that allows cheap labor to thrive (which makes big construction companies, big bucks). That allows cheap labor to teach themselves. True, prefab means COMPLETELY wiping out that cheap labor with more expensive teams. But prefab means excellent homes built in less than a week, how the FUCK isn\u2019t it enough incentive? It sure is to me. Slowly incorporating that cheap labor into building prefab, passive houses (which require very high precision in the making) would be the challenge but, that\u2019s when being a billionaire probably would help starting that. I\u2019d build a damn <em>\u201cbuilding homes in 2020 and beyond\u201d<\/em> university, you\u2019d get a freaking degree and let\u2019s fu-cking goooo.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daiwahouse.com\/English\/businessfield\/housing\/kodate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daiwa House has been building prefab housing<\/a> for over sixty years. They employ almost 50,000 people. Those houses are sustainable, use state-of-the-art technology and produce the least waste possible in terms of building (traditional construction is the absolute worse in terms of material waste). We suck.<\/p>\n<p>If I was a billionaire, I wouldn\u2019t care about electric cars or Mars. I would pour my money into this and rapidly creates new cities where people work from home, in houses that respect the hell out of Earth. Let\u2019s get it.<\/p>\n<h3>Sustainable electric bicycle<\/h3>\n<p>We keep hearing about public transportation or electric cars but the best for most daily commutes is the bicycle. Electric bicycles are clearly the winner here and yet we have been extremely quiet with those. I\u2019d pour hundreds of millions of dollars into something like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superpedestrian.com\/en\/copenhagenwheel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Copenhahen wheel<\/a> (I\u2019ve seen a couple folks using it in LA, they made me want to get one for sure) so that I can subsidize the tech and make it affordable (it\u2019s $1700 right now, without the bike), say under 500 bucks and make sure we can leverage the trillion bicycles around on this planet.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t been on a bicycle in months and I miss the absolute non existence of parking, the ability to actually enjoy neighborhoods and notice things you never would otherwise. That\u2019s Quality of Life.<\/p>\n<p>I need to be a billionaire real quick so that I can almost even quicker, spend the money and change things for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn\u2019t care about space colonies or make more money. I wouldn\u2019t try to pollute the sky either. What I\u2019d do: Plant and transplant big old trees Mature trees are the best stuff ever. Seriously. The only inconvenience is the roots but if we can build smartphones and send rocket back and forth outside the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3209,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions\/3209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}