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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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My idea is some non profit gets setup to manage a system where someone announces their mortgage and then they can have friends, family and second and third degree friends and families finance your loan.

Let's say someone buys a $250k house. Each person puts in $100 and then they get a receipt showing they are owed $200 against their 1/2500th share of the mortgage. Repayments are paid the $200 in return in a random time frame of between the first month to the last month 30 years later. Repayment is completely randomized, meaning you could get your money back really soon... Or a really long time from then.

There are a lot of other ways you could build on this idea.

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[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If you asked everyone in the US to give you one dollar you could buy a pretty nice house

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I asked this baby in this stupid rolling cart thing for a dollar and all it did was cry, and the adult lady pushing the stupid cart thing punched me in the face, so I didn't get a chance to ask her. Then everyone in the area chased me out of town. This is proving to be a difficult task already. Will update further. Stay tuned.

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Tysm keep me posted

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 2 points 5 days ago

Especially if you're operating out of India or Myanmar.