About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT network. Naming things is hard, and we almost voted on the name, like we did for Stack Overflow, but we quickly landed on Off By One with Jeff Atwood. Which is funny for so many reasons, but mainly because of this programmer joke:
Jeff: And the other thing is, you can just run the math on this, I’ve posted several times on Mastodon and other places like LinkedIn, I’ve done some research and if we simply collected a fair tax from Billionaires, we could literally elimate all poverty in this country at the 100% FPL level, which is $15,000 per year. All poverty. We would have zero poverty. We have the means to do it."
do you talk about how you’d use your billionaire tax in the video ? That’s quite an interesting subject
Sure; it’d be implemented the same way it is through https://rgmii.org via a non-profit, not the viciously exploitative for-profit “means testing industrial complex”. The whole point is to give the money to those in most need of it, ala “trickle up”. Because we sure as hell know “trickle down” (aka give the rich more money and add thoughts and prayers) does not work.
See RGMII Initial Frequently Asked Questions for details.
I agree with trickling being a big failure. What I’m not sure is just giving money for nothing in return I’m not sure it scales well, I’d love to.
Thanks for the effort you put in stuff like that, that’s the kind of experiments I’d love to run if I had enough money.
Also! For those of you that read the comments, let me reward you. 
Anyone who wants a free year long Club TWiT membership, watch the first episode (#2), decide for yourself if it’s worth your time, then fill out this form and I’ll happily cover your first year membership costs, so you can see all the shows, too :
(limited to 10 slots, but at least 4 were available last I heard an hour ago)
Is there an RSS feed for the show? I know you haven’t even done the second episode yet but I’d like to add this to my pod-catcher
Hey there! You can find all instructions related to RSS feeds for TWiT shows here: Club TWiT FAQ