Try to buy over 50% of ExxonMobil or Shell (Saudi Aramco and Sinopec probably aren’t up for grabs) and shut down everything I can while holding on to the owned/leased land so nobody else can start there either. Fossil fuels get more expensive, hopefully pushing for a green change, and at least some of them remain in the ground.
Assumption is thats in dollars:
Buy every single relevant news outlet, social media platform and information network. Then you remove all the right-wing garbage and replace it with the actual truth. Agressivly ban accounts who spread lies and hate for violoatint guidelines. Make accounts visible if they are bots or not.
Be partisan about it: Pogressive ideas over conservatism.
In essence: Renove as much poison from the internet as possible, so people are no longer gettint sucked into conservative pipelines and bubbles.
except then the people who owned those outlets would now have $300 billion…
Were they lacking in money before the buyout? If not, does it actually change anything?
So you wouldn’t actually change anything, you’d just be closing down avenues of debate and saying “I’m right, you’re wrong”.
I think you’ve just wasted your money.
Hire a competent hitman pronto. We can still prevent the dark age.
Nuke everything, shit’s beyond saving
Shutting off Twitter would cost what, $1?
Build houses
Not a shit ton
Just as many as I can build that are high quality and easily maintainable
Don’t forget to reserve a bit to fund all the bribes, lobbying and legal representation that protecting your housing development will require. 300b is a tasty target.
I buy social medias and news outlets. Then I weaponize them to support a clueless gullible idiot candidate for POTUS.
I use my influence on him to get a position that will allow me to get grossly richer by favoring my own businesses, including crushing unions and force my employees to work to death on low wages.
When I reach 1 trillion $, I’ll have much more resources to improve the planet and living conditions of my fellow humans.
But wait! Maybe I could do even more for humankind with 2 trillions $??
Kinda hate that I’m upvoting you.
bribe (sorry, i mean lobby) politicians to vote in interest of humanity. Environmental protection, public healthcare, solve the housing crisis/homeless epidemic, increase education budget spending, etc.
Bounties.
As in Bounty toilet paper?
A bidet would be better.
Make my own monopoly and use that fund to make non profits instead
300 billion, secure myself first, then build up companies in my interest, then use that capital to influence politics, then secure policies that will help my personal and business objectives, then create a charity that will have a tax exemption for planting trees and r&d a biodegradable, easy to manufacture, durable, plastic that will replace all current non-biodegrable plastics. Wouldn’t become prime minster because you can get the most done behind closed doors. Also need to use some of the money to secure my kids future.
Assassinate the other billionaires. I genuinely believe billionaires are the source of all the biggest problems the planet has right now.
Someone is simply going to take their place. The problem isn’t the billionaires themselves, its the system.
Not if you pick off each new billionaire.
We can do a lot more to change the system without a bunch of over-moneyed under-principled techbros trying to stop us.
You’re just worried about the loud ones who are usually loud because they aren’t rich. Its the quiet really rich ones you need to worry about
Fair. The techbros are emblematic of the problem, but it extends far outside the tech industry.
But if we do that today, what do we do tomorrow? When someone someone else takes that vacant CEO position and starts receiving that ludicrous salary, what then?
If you killed every billionaire every month, they probably wouldn’t have time to seriously affect society, but then I suspect we’d have other problems. I have a feeling that would produce some negative outcomes for the economy and general quality of life.
Exactly what I came here to say. Hire a group, and tell them to start at the top of the Forbes list and work their way down. Send anonymous letters to media outlets that surrendering their wealth is the only way to save their lives.
It would dramatically improve the quality of living on this planet within 3 months.
I really like the idea to Fund a global election. Of a global government to act on global problems. Politics is not a zero sum game.
I would probably just feed as many hungry people for as long as possible.
There is a danish researcher called Björn Lomborg who has been researching this type of question a lot. He tends to get a lot of hate because the most cost efficient ways to spend money to do good isn’t what people want it to be.
What are the most cost-efficient ways?
Iirc, micronutrients and HIV prevention, followed by preventing malaria. The idea is that we spend a little money now, to make many people grow up and be healthy, which avoids big costs to societies while at the same time generating people who can contribute more to the same societies. Many people want to solve the climate first, but it’s very expensive for very little return. In an ideal world we would solve all the problems, but… we don’t. So if we have limited resources, we should spend it where it does most long-term good. It’s not a bad idea to do good things for the climate, but if we have to choose between things to do, it gives little benefit per dollar compared to other things.
