There is too much stress in each of us and too much stress in our systems as well.
We are burning out and the world is burning up.
Stress always gives off heat.
When we do “our thing” we are less expensive and more productive–cooler–than if we are we ground down by the system.
When we give money in a thoughtful way we can cool off someone’s day.
So the wheel cranks out wages that pay people to do their thing and to give too.
Molly Agents doing their thing in service of the world, armed with laser-guided rain.
For a month.
A month is enough time to make real progress on a project, perhaps transform your career, for sure upgrade your cool.
(We'd love to hire you for a year, but that gets expensive and we strive to do in a month what others do in a year or four or never.)
As an Agent you agree to:
Do your thing.
Sew a stitch in the social fabric as best you can.
Make it rain: Give.
Get as much support as Molly can provide and as serves you.
For your month you will be paid one of two wages:
€1000 or €4000
Plus €1000 to give invest, or donate, what we call Laser Guided Rain.
To become and agent someone has to suggest you be one and, of course, we would ask you a few questions like:
Is now is the best time for you to take this month?
How might you best use your month if it is?
How can our village and our school support you?
If you are a billionaire we might ask you skip taking a wage But you get that.
An agent with some resources can use the €/$1000 to take a month (or work for Molly) without resentment.
Just two wages is meant to make things easier logistically (think of all the paperwork that goes with a scholarship).
We aim for these number to suggest a middle class wage that works everywhere--a lot in Sierra Leone, not a ton in Zurich, but enough for a month--and that we might think of economy around that very word: enough.
It is great that billionaires build hospitals, but working at the ground level and in increments where a well-placed drop can do more than a flood is also how we heal and nurture and grow, where seeds of connection and ideas of merit and people toiling in obscurity to do the right thing can be given the moisture they need.
So a Molly Agent is paid to give. €1000
A 1000 euros is a lot of money if you are one of the many people trying to flesh out a living on an insanely divided planet, but then again, the none hundred million we would put to paying agents over the next thirty years is a drop in the global economic bucket.
And the opportunity to give focuses people on what they care about–their thing.
Besides, we want to know how many people giving away a drop of money we need to cool up a few neighborhoods, maybe cool off the earth by one degree.
Yuval Noah Harar and Jeremy Irons are correct, money is made up.
You know how the kids say, I will “make it rain.” Fine, but they forget that actual rain does not just end up in your garden alone. If it did, you would drown, just as Wall Street is drowning, unmoored from the solid ground of common sense or everyday human connection. Meanwhile their neighbors live in drought conditions.
(In the real Amazon it rains like crazy and it is the most fertile place on earth while in the Bezos Amazon, everyone is stressed out and all the money flows to him.)
So we think it useful to think of money as water, what we have as in a river, and the purpose of that river to turn a wheel of wages.
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