• What if instead of paying to go to school, you got paid to go down intellectually rich rabbit holes and document your learnings?
• What if we valued thinking as much as we valued working?
• What if we normalized thinking as working?

<aside> 👉 It's weird that most people are either researchers for a living or not and there's no middle ground.

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Startupy’s Universal Thinking Income experiment is an experiment to see if giving curious, creative intellectuals a financial buffer and the freedom to read, think, and produce public-facing work (with no strings attached) can improve their lives, lead to less [bullshit jobs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs#:~:text=Bullshit Jobs%3A A Theory is,associates work with self-worth.), and more interesting contributions to the world.

We are still thinking through the details and will be launching in Q3. Check back for details.