Let’s say that you have an opportunity to gain billions to fix the society from the top. Do you think that you would keep your integrity and use your money for the greater good, or that you would be corrupted by your power?
If so, would you still accept the offer knowing that you would just make the situation worse?
And if you believe in yourself, how would you try to convince an hypotetical entity to give you this wealth?
To avoid regrets let’s say that if you decline the offer your memory about the deal gets erased.
Lol if I had truly infinite money, this is a story of what I would do.
I would first have a “magical investment bank” that would promise 200% per annum with interest paid monthly, but only if paid in cash and at least 50 million to start. Have this scheme open for a few months with actual results and interest paid out. This is to get billionaires and megacorps to liquidate their assets into soon to be worthless monetary instruments. Then, everyone in the world but the top 0.1% would get 1 trillion. Everyone’s debt is virtually erased, and the old top 0.1% can go ahead, get their money back and feel bad about themselves. With all currency effectively rebased to a billion times than previously, now we can work on solving the world’s problems as shoulder-to-shoulder equals. Give the world food, give the world shelter, give the world healthcare, give the people of the world a purpose, give the people socioeconomic freedom, give them trains, give the world a chance at reversing disastrous effects of climate change.
If it didn’t work, then my money would be just as worthless any way (unless my infinite money powers could manifest in bottle caps or whatever the newest thing people found value in was).
Yeah, I’m awesome!
I will hire people much smarter than me to fix those problems. Climate change? 100 billion to the scientist with the green coat. Poverty? 80 billion to the guy who gave away his only scrap of food. I will become the master delegator. Heck I’ll even have a guy who will do the delegating. Literally have the money do the work for you.
Let’s say that you have an opportunity to gain billions to fix the society from the top.
Society can not, and never will be, fixed from the top.
Nor is money the solution to our problems, if anything, they are a huge part of the cause (and why communism aspires to a moneyless society, among other things).
So even if I say I’d only accept the money if I could instantly redistribute it, as long as other billionaires, and the systems that create and uphold them, exist, my personal actions would probably make little difference in the long run, and any money I shared would end up right back in their pockets (by virtue of how capitalism works).
I’d get YouTube premium
Elon? That you? Start with overturning “citizens united”
yeah I would just hire a really smart people And ask them what they think
If I had infinite money, everyone would have infinite money.
Except Steve. Fuck you, Steve
If everyone has infinite money, it would suddenly become worthless and society would quickly fall into chaos. You must be an anarchist.
- Build lots of free housing everywhere
- Lowers rent significantly
- Create a new healthcare provider that everyone is automatically included in with fees of $0
- Healthcare providers will have to lower their fees to even try to compete
- Lobby government for fairness doctrine to he reinstated
- Right-wing media gets neutered
- Create plentiful public food gardens
- Retailers have to lower their prices
- Create a 500km tall gold statue of myself
- Satellites now have to clear larger orbits.
- Shining dong to inspire the masses
For the monument to your hubris, maybe make it a space elevator too? Also satellites can totally get around your enormous shining dong, it won’t successfully clear LEO like you hope.
Also satellites can totally get around your enormous shining dong, it won’t successfully clear LEO like you hope.
*narrows eyes*
what have you heard?
- Build lots of free housing everywhere
i would become so evil so quickly
Yeah, no kidding. I would never be satisfied with infinite money, I’d need more!
Infinite? I would give infinite money away. Making the fiat currency worthless, and people would have to find a new way to exploit and fuck everyone over.
Believe me, humans will always find a way. Even if you took their imaginary money away. For now…
Maybe some day we will grow up past crying “mine mine mine!” Over literally every single thing. Doubtful i will even come close to living in those times.
I’m not saying I’m “forward thinking” or smarter or calling everyone dumb. I’m dumb as fuck 24/7. But it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see how fucked up things are in our current way of life. I bet a huge majority of people would say it’s fucked up to.
We just disagree on what to do next.
I’d move to Cuba and bankroll the worldwide working class adventure.
Being in a place like Cuba will keep you grounded, you can’t go ape shit with spending on nonsense and use it to aggrandize your power. I’d just chill on some Caribbean beaches and smoke cigars with some older Cubans until the bourgeoisie is overthrown.
No, not because I’d necessarily be corrupted, but because I’m a dipshit who doesn’t know shit about fuck, I’d probably, crash the world economy completely on accident and then have an emotional breakdown about the fact that I’d ruined billions of lives without knowing how to fix it.
Definetly not.
Played enough video games, and when i get upper hand on anything it going to be bad for everyone else.
Screw it. If I had limitless wealth time to see if ending homelessness is possible with every bit of it I can.
What I want for me is a stable living situation, fun times on a motorcycle, and time to do hobbies without killing myself at work and to travel. My secondaries are those things for the people I care about. Other than the killing myself at work, that sort of thing is obtainable without being a millionaire.
So after that, throwing billions into building affordable housing seems like the plan, combat these scalpers that overdo rent and see if I could beat the countries, then the worlds goal of “stable living situation”. After that… figure out what’s next.