It’s a post global warming look at real estate in a tidal zone. NYC is referred to as”super venice”. It’s wonky and focuses heavily on trading and selling, the economics of salvaging a city, landholders and renters rights. Slow but fairly interesting.
Tax evasion doesn't care which currency you're using; the IRS will catch up in fairly short order. People complain a lot about taxes but they're rarely the biggest drain on our personal spending power... that would be medical expenses. And if crypto-currencies ever become a real threat to the stranglehold big financial institutions have on our country you can bet they'll find a way to co-opt them.
You might check out this book, I thought it had an interesting take on how big finance might be brought to bear:
You really want Hawaii to achieve financial independence? The only way that's going to happen is if we stop sending more money out than we take in; in other words, spend local, and stop shipping goods en-masse from the mainland.
Crypto-currencies are not a mature financial instrument; thus, the risk is higher. The people who can least afford to take those risks are the very people you're talking about rescuing from big finance.
You should check out kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 https://www.amazon.com/New-York-2140-Stanley-Robinson/dp/031626234X
It’s a post global warming look at real estate in a tidal zone. NYC is referred to as”super venice”. It’s wonky and focuses heavily on trading and selling, the economics of salvaging a city, landholders and renters rights. Slow but fairly interesting.
Tax evasion doesn't care which currency you're using; the IRS will catch up in fairly short order. People complain a lot about taxes but they're rarely the biggest drain on our personal spending power... that would be medical expenses. And if crypto-currencies ever become a real threat to the stranglehold big financial institutions have on our country you can bet they'll find a way to co-opt them.
You might check out this book, I thought it had an interesting take on how big finance might be brought to bear:
https://www.amazon.com/New-York-2140-Stanley-Robinson/dp/031626234X
You really want Hawaii to achieve financial independence? The only way that's going to happen is if we stop sending more money out than we take in; in other words, spend local, and stop shipping goods en-masse from the mainland.
Crypto-currencies are not a mature financial instrument; thus, the risk is higher. The people who can least afford to take those risks are the very people you're talking about rescuing from big finance.
You have New York 2140, which is not explicitly solarpunk but shares a bunch of themes.
https://www.amazon.com/New-York-2140-Stanley-Robinson/dp/031626234X
Besides that recently these two collections were published as well:
https://www.amazon.com/Sunvault-Solarpunk-Eco-Speculation-C-Wise-ebook/dp/B071J8QD6H
https://www.amazon.com/Ecopunk-Speculative-Tales-Radical-Futures/dp/1925212548
'17
1.5 3.55 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29570143-new-york-2140
350 3.8 https://www.amazon.com/New-York-2140-Stanley-Robinson/dp/031626234X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_2140
'13
2 3.45 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11830394-2312
600 3.4 https://www.amazon.com/2312-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0316098116
120 3 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/2312-kim-stanley-robinson/1030400006#/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2312_(novel)
Reminds me of the book New York 2140
https://www.amazon.com/New-York-2140-Stanley-Robinson/dp/031626234X