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什么能让你的生活更轻松?马丁·刘易斯向公众征集“微小想法”以改善英国What would make your life easier? Martin Lewis asks public for ‘small ideas’ to improve UK

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刘易斯说,他想“解决日常生活中一些令人沮丧的问题”。摄影:Ken McKay/ITV/ShutterstockLewis said he wanted to ‘fix some of the frustration points’ in everyday life. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock

金融专家发起“微小想法倡议”,收集“实用、低成本”的创意,提交给跨党派小组。

每天,人们都会遇到金融专家马丁·刘易斯所称的“意外后果的生活坑洞”——笨拙的系统和设计不佳的规则,使事情比应有的更困难。

Finance expert launches Small Ideas Initiative to gather ‘practical, low-cost’ ideas to put before cross-party panel Every day, people run into what the finance expert Martin Lewis calls “the life-potholes of unintended consequences” – clunky systems and poorly conceived rules that make things harder than they should be.

没有所谓的垃圾想法:一些伦敦人脑子里装的是垃圾桶。摄影:UK Stock Images Ltd/AlamyNo such thing as a rubbish idea: bins were on the brain for some Londoners. Photograph: UK Stock Images Ltd/Alamy

他的最新项目“微小想法倡议”将尝试解决这些问题,邀请跨党派的政治家和政策制定者众筹日常修复方案,提交给政府。创意可以涵盖健康、学校、警务、科技和金融等各个领域。

His latest project, the Small Ideas Initiative, will attempt to address that, with a cross-party panel of politicians and policymakers crowdsourcing ideas for everyday fixes to take to government. The ideas could cover anything, from health and schools to policing, tech and money.

2016年,麦肯齐和刘易斯在“金钱与心理健康政策研究所”成立仪式上。摄影:Graeme Robertson/《卫报》MacKenzie and Lewis in 2016, on the launch of the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

刘易斯鼓励人们在11月12日前提交“实用、低成本、非争议性”的改善英国的想法。

Lewis is encouraging people to submit ideas for “practical, low-cost, non-controversial ways to improve the UK” before 12 November.