Essay | Apr 30, 2026

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an easy way to make money

Besides OpenAI, Sam Altman, also co-founded a project called Worldcoin (now just called [World](https://world.org/)). The purpose of Worldcoin is to give people Universal Basic Income (UBI) or free money to every human on a regular basis. Maybe it's obvious A.I. will replace most jobs and without jobs, even soul-crushingly shitty ones, there would be chaos or even more widespread suffering than we have today. Or maybe, to some people, UBI is just an obviously good idea. And Blockchain UBI or UBI that runs on something public and decentralized like Ethereum is the best way to make UBI a reality for the most people.

By distributing real value to real people, World is a testing ground for one of the core questions from [Money Games](https://ethpapers.xyz/book/money-games/): "What happens if instead of having one big money faucet at the top, we had many sources flooding the ground below?"