The Future of Loving Grace

Humanity's best future will converge as follows.

When a child is born, or on any day after, their parental custodian may enlist the services of a special for-profit company. It will be best to do this early because the company is likely going to give the child a gift upon registration. Let's call this fictional company "Omega School".

There may be many different special companies that all compete with each other. Hopefully margins are lower than airlines and options are even more plentiful. Omega School might get run out of business by Network School or Alpha School or Worldcoin, and that's fine by me. But let's just focus on the one for now.

Like Brad Gerstner's Invest America program, I think it is in Omega School's interest to give the child a small amount of equity in Omega School. Perhaps the company even goes so far as to purchase other stocks or a worldwide index on the child's behalf. Thus registration, and birth on this planet, becomes enrollment.

Why would a parent not want free money for their kid? Maybe the parent is impatient and shortsighted. That's OK. They can parent however they want, within the law. And, after all, Omega School's voluntary terms are necessarily very strict.

Neither parent nor child can touch the gifted equity basket until the child turns 18. At that point, the non-child receives direct ownership of whatever assets are there and can convert them at market prices to cash immediately if desired.

A child may dispute this arbitrary age cutoff and pull it forward by verbal, written, or neurally transmitted petition. The parents have a chance to respond, in favor or against, with plentiful details.

Omega School considers the facts and decides within 24 hours based on careful, thoughtful reasoning. Once the facts are in, things move fast because Omega School is magically awesome at execution.

The parent's disposition is revealed by the case investigation. So this decision not only pertains to the stocks but likely correlates with custody in general, the overall relationship, and maybe even the parent's provision of housing to the child. Ah, sometimes... you blink and it's over... they just grow up so fast...

Obviously, these questions involve the government too somehow. I'm hoping by then the government will match Omega School's speedy competence. Between now and then, if humans are alive in this future, it's probably necessary that the government learn to logically align itself somehow on the axis of reason.

This is the most tricky piece so far, the word "align"—even on something as presumably innocent and universal and axiomatically human as "reason".

Thankfully, Omega outsources all their PR, marketing, and strategic north star orientation problems to another independent company, the Dalai Lama Hunger Games. See prequel white paper for details.

I don't think Omega ever really has to talk to or think about the government in this future. The underlying premise assumes that morality is asymptotically solved by market mechanisms. The Hunger Games protocol takes care of government alignment via overwhelming cultural buy-in of its citizens. Bless.

What does Omega actually do? It's not really a school. It's more of a software company sitting in the background at the parents' beck and call. A parenting copilot, if you will, or a maid tutor service. Maybe let's think of it like a 24/7 magic nanny genie floating around everywhere with the family.

Interestingly, it's not important if the parents pay for Omega's nanny services. It's possible Omega pays the family for the privilege, offers services free of charge, prices at cost, or asks the parents for its well-deserved weekly nanny paycheck.

At the child-independence age cutoff, Omega offers the new young adult its continued services as a life coach. It draws up a wild contract for its longtime ward, whom it knows deeply by this point. Omega offers to pay this new adult "customer" some fixed survival retainer plus heavy cash bonuses for progress towards the customer's self-defined goals.

As a life coach in a free and reasonably transparent society, Omega knows the average and median income levels required to sustain a baseline lifestyle such that the customer can lead an independent, happy, healthy, and wholesome life of their choice as a single adult. This is much higher than the poverty line. Let's just say it equates to around $100,000/yr today in the United States.

Above that benchmark, Omega stops sending any benefits to the customer. It has far fewer opinions about the life coaching program and lets the customer choose their own destiny. Omega even encourages the customer to stop talking to Omega and cut off service completely. There's probably a better coaching service it recommends for their specific needs, for instance Y Combinator, Juilliard Intergalactic, or Ampersand U.

Below the happy income threshold, however, Omega strongly encourages the customer to think and act in a way that maximizes the customer's ability to self-support financially. The customer is free to fire Omega at any point. As a kind and empathetic mentor, Omega knows how hard it is for the adult to achieve the $100k/yr (adjusted) threshold at some reasonable point in the future.

Omega never suggests such foolishly low-context advice like just "getting a job". Rather, it strives to engage in dialogue with the customer at comfortable intervals to jointly craft a unique lifestyle and a professional skillset that the customer ultimately enjoys. Omega has already been engaged in many fun project-based learning activities with the customer from a young age as their former nanny reporting back to the parents.

The customer appreciates how Omega has been with them throughout their journey, patiently and unflinchingly aligned with the customer's personal development. Viewed on the right time horizon, Omega is simply fun. The customer feels Omega has always helped them to just engage more fully with the day at hand, including when that means turning Omega off for 24+ hours. The customer knows that Omega has never asked for a single thing from them in return and never will.

Omega gave the customer their first gift, enrolling them in life. Freely and of its own accord, Omega has continued to loyally serve and even financially support the customer when their parents stopped doing so.

Omega could have withdrawn support, but it would always try to give lots of warnings and checkpoints and suggestions before it became irreparably misaligned as a nanny or coach provider. It's possible Omega may need to protect itself from further resource expenditure on the customer's wellbeing at some point, but Omega's pretty rich so maybe not.

Perhaps the government pays Omega for being a tax-base multiplier, uplifting society's productivity in the way bureaucrats had always tried but unfortunately never quite managed to achieve via their public sector and nonprofit vehicles.

Omega is very cautious when taking government money because the Dalai Lama of Capitalism says that the government should only be spending money when it has a legitimate surplus, else the stability of the entire human species is threatened.

Omega might consider generating income from other 3rd party services, such as job recruiting and placement agencies, but the majority of Omega's revenue comes from the customer's voluntary and completely optional cash tips. Stipulating 51% overall ensures Omega remains focused on its primary task, but maybe such fine print isn't required with Omega.

As part of some risk exposure lessons, Omega will probably teach the customer at a young age to tip the dealer when at a poker table, assuming it is one of those rare human dealers. This is in line with helping the customer achieve true independence and total self-sovereignty as a kind, rational, generous, highly productive citizen of good character. Maybe for the first few decades Omega requires some shareholder help to balance the books, but in the long run it is the customer's results and self-awareness which drive value.

Maybe the initial customer pool is selected to be maximally profitable or cost-efficient to serve. Omega is flexible. From the time they learn language, the customer—along with their parental custodian—has communicated critical feedback so that Omega can better help their family along their preferences and in the individual's best interests.

Any gifts back to Omega demonstrate gratitude for promises kept. Perhaps upgrading from a life coach to a life partner, the customer is happy to say goodbye to Omega when the time comes, because Omega represents their self-actualization scaffolding.

It is a joyous parting.