You could institute a UBI by building a tower that drops a $1 bill every minute.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35585305

I propose pillorying for lesser crimes and public executions for greater ones, but that’s likely not possible due to the eighth amendment. And suspending the constitutional would be the final nail in the coffin of the whole American project.

The modern western criminal justice system only really works when thieves and killers know what they are doing is wrong, but do it anyway. What you have in places like Pine Bluff is more like barbarians sacking Rome. They don’t think it’s wrong but do it anyway, they do it because they believe that it’s right. It’s an antique problem that calls for an antique solution.