My first thought about this is that, if I had a guaranteed &quot;floor&quot;, I wouldn&#x27;t have to live in a big city but could move my family to a cabin in the woods.  Perhaps what YC should experiment with is something like a new Homestead Act: you&#x27;ll get an economic foundation to stand on, but only if you&#x27;re willing to work the land, so to speak: you have to <i>do</i> something with it, whether that be starting a company, writing, farming, or something else creative.<p>I don&#x27;t have any research published in a related field, but I&#x27;m tempted to send in a proposal.  Would the researcher have to live in San Francisco for this?