“To have the future we want, we need to build and invent more of the things that we need.”
The Year Is 2050
Housing
High-density apartments and duplexes and less regulation have made American cities affordable.
Artificial Intelligence
Frontier AI development was paused globally in 2027 to mitigate extreme loss-of-control risks. Models with similar capabilities to human experts safely supercharge math, robotics, and medicine, but the future is never handed over to Artificial Superintelligence. 50% of AI lab stocks are publicly owned, so everyone benefits from the labs’ profitability.
Community
Social media restrictions, walkable cities, and revitalized public parks have helped people find friends and community.
Infrastructure
City buses and high-speed rails make cars optional, and the revitalized electric grid powers cities with affordable clean energy.
Climate Tech
Renewable energy, electric vehicles, cultivated meat, and clean concrete have largely reversed climate change and created manufacturing jobs at home.
The Time Tax
Paperwork is all digital and mostly automatic. You can pay your taxes over text and get a business license approved the same day you submit it.
Policy is the only thing separating our present from that future.
Our Approach
We are democrats and we have fundamentally progressive values. We support affordable cities, a physically and mentally healthy population, a social safety net, equal rights for people of all backgrounds, and limits on corporate power. But democratic politicians often pass policies that directly hinder our shared goals. For example, zoning laws and rent control increase rent and homelessness because they deter developers from building affordable housing. Ironically, conservative states like Texas tend to build more, cheaper housing than liberal states like California.
We are focused on outcomes, not processes. After the US government funded Bell Labs’ public solar cell research in 1954, solar energy was too expensive to be commercially viable. But over the next 6 decades, public incentives primarily from the German and Chinese governments encouraged manufacturing scale-up and innovation, driving costs down an incredible 99.6%. Today, solar energy is significantly cheaper than energy from fossil fuels, even without government incentives. So we reject dogma around processes (“the market is always…” or “the government is always…”) and instead support the outcome-driven public-private partnerships that led to affordable solar energy. We support the same approach for emerging climate technologies like clean animal protein and cement manufacturing.
This is our approach broadly. The free market is already skilled at building affordable housing, so we support less regulation to empower developers to build more homes. Private companies learn to manufacture new technology more affordably as they scale up, so we support public-private partnerships to catalyze manufacturing of socially positive emerging technology. The government is best at building shared goods like infrastructure, so we support a higher-capacity, more efficient government that builds an energy grid and public transportation system for everyone. Across the board, we also support a larger earned income tax credit to help people below the poverty line afford the goods and services they need.
We believe that by using evidence-based processes to pursue progressive outcomes, we can build an abundant future for everyone.