It's very exciting to see the concept of "asking random people what to do with pots of money" gather momentum, with the plans announced by Marlene Engelhorn, an 31yo Austrian, to redistribute €25m she's inherited.

Hopefully each time an exercise like this takes place, more people will be inspired to follow suit, and we will learn a little more about to do it in the most optimal way.

The plans described in the press seem to be similar to what we did with Wealth Shared in terms of the open-endedness of what the participants are able to choose - apparently there is a general aspiration to come up with "solutions to benefit society as a whole".

The main differences with our project seem to be that it's a much larger amount of money and a bigger cohort of people making the decision - 50 people vs 12 in our case.

You can read an interview with Marlene here.