Wonder what a person who just got a 1T paycheck would do to try to redeem his sorry. talentless ass in the eyes of the general public.
Probably self flying helicopters that three people can afford.
Being extra nice and considerate to everyone I meet is free.
What’s a reasonable amount of start-up capital? I wonder if you could make a big difference in US politics if you had like 50 billion USD and invested it all into promoting progressive (i.e. left of the DNC-mainstream) politicians and policy. Making sure that the USA don’t fuck everyone else’s shit up would make a huge difference.
Like, how much money are all the fascist billionaires actually investing into politics?
Might be a little late for this approach, though, at this point I’d expect that three letter agencies would just assassinate me if I started that now.
Build open source software for public infrastructure
Few options that don’t necessarily even require a whole lot of capital (and I’m already doing one of these):
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Work in finance (and stay educated to be good at it), donate as much as possible to well researched charities.
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Work in healthcare, volunteer your services where they’d be otherwise unavailable.
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Build a community with certain values and offer life-enhancing (basically odd jobs) services freely to people outside the community. Or just offer community, just be transparent about the rules and expectations (don’t be a cult).
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Copy hank and john green?
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I woukd be very cautious with min-maxing charity. It’s a path to Effective Altruism logic, which is a trap to lead to some weird trolley-problem-like eugenic-happy-pseudorational. Stay away.
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In a lifetime timeline I think that tremendous positive change could be created by teaching children recognize they emotion and regulate them. It have proven impact on… Well basicly everything. From addiction,/suicide/self-harm preventrion to things like akademic/work/artistic/cognitive performance or self-motivation or overall level of happiness. There is no area that wouldn’t improve and all those amazing people would generate amazing outcomes.
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in shorter horizon, and for people who already are adults… And I think about it a lot, we should create an “audio-first learning platform”. Start with open source lectures and quality courses. Maybe ad an app that show you visuals or test only when absolutely necessary. But we need something that will easli slow you to learn WHILE, you are doing meaningless task that you need to, do to survive. Something that you can use while doing house chores, work on assembly line or as delivery person, something you can listen discreetly in your non-suportive envirement… Podcast and audio books are on massive raise. E-learnign was on a.massive raise (until they all went public or private and turn to shit in a chase for profit). There is a need and there is a demand. Technologicaly it’s very achievable. And “any phone and any headphones” is as small entry threshold one could ask for. We have the ships that could get as to the stars allredy, we just need the crew.
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eddit: or help Hank an John eliminate tuberculosis completely - its fucking embaresing to have those.
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Everyone gets a bag of werther’s original.
For every 100 that lives are marginally better there is 1 who absolutely destroys their teeth biting into one.
Then there is also the one kid who used them to poison an entire medical staff and lives on to be a serial killer.
My life would be a lot better so it would make up for the rest.
Someone get this anon a bag of werthers already.
Oh no thank you, they’re not really my thing.
Since I can’t see the limit on the start-up capital, I remember UN making a plan to end world hunger for measly 6.6B$ after Elon said he’d sell stocks and fund it if they did so. So yeah, I’d fund that.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/18/tech/elon-musk-world-hunger-wfp-donation/
Maybe it’s just the gourmand in me, but this is also my priority. It seems like we should be able to ensure no human goes hungry. Production isn’t an issue, it’s distribution/logistics.
It’s a capitalism and “free market” issue and always has been.
It’s a lot harder to manufacture consent or invent conflict if people can’t be threatened by starvation.
Seed sharing beats game theory.
Figure out the genetics responsible for greed and then engineer an infectious disease to edit that shit out of the human genome for good.
So you’ll end up with a may more passive humanity?
This will probably be impopular, but olease hear me out.
Greed in and of itself is a huge driving force, throwing that away is stupid, channelling it for good is way more smart.
Exessive material greed is evil.
Greed is often related to status as much as it is related to wealth, so what does that mean?
Give people status, rather than pure wealth.
Set up a society where wealth is seen as decadent, but people can gain a lot of status by doing good things.
Embrace naming building, blocks, public facilities, parks and stuff like that after good people, you are a researcher, developing a cure for Aids, you get a medical university named after you, stuff like that.
Embrace one of our most powerful motivational forces, don’t just throw it out.
Just trying to think of what greed got us.
Its a long list but Id say it basically all leads to Modern technology - by which we can say is partially responsible for modern medicine. Im not sure greed is required for that or will it over all be super beneficial, considering climate change. At least, we have no problem harnessing it and we already do much of what you say. I think we just need to look at what is greed and what is actually mental illness.
Its greedy to want more money than you could ever need. Its mentally ill to want the biggest money number because its super big.
More than that though. When it comes to hoarding there is an emotional attachment. Kind of like when a dog is food aggressive. Hoarders will lash out if you threaten their hoard. Now you might think this makes sense if someone is threatening to take your money but if that money adds no intrinsic value your personal being its just the same as you freaking out some one took your “treasures” (actual garbage) from you house and disposed of it properly.
We all have those genes to some degree. In a non-obsessive level, it’s a survival tactic. Please do not alter my genome without my consent.
Oops, let me just put this back. You’ll never notice.
It would be something… Violent. Can’t change the system to be better by using the system. Gotta destroy it first, and there will be… so much resistance against that.
But to make life better for the majority, action will have to be covert. None of that terrorist shit with shock, awe, destruction of public spaces, and the loss of civilian life. No names, no titles, no spotlight, no ego.
Making life better for the majority will also be a lifetime career, and the resulting world that will hopefully be built from such action would not be for me to live in, but future generations.
I say all this as some random guy on the Internet, but… One can dream. For now I’ll settle with my job as an active trade unionist.
Gotta destroy it first, and there will be… so much resistance against that.
yeah some weirdos just love running water and electricity so grandma doesn’t cook / suffocate.
look, I get it, you can’t see any way to make things better, but you only have to smell bodies once or go a week without water coming from the faucet to start appreciating that perhaps… destroy it all first isn’t the best plan we can come up with.
I’ve been there already. Surviving without all that for years. You can thank 2008 for that.
sure thing bud. you’ve been there but want it back, I do not believe you.
I don’t care what you believe, but you seem to be completely missing the point.
you’re so gung ho for tearing down the infrastructure mate, I think I know the point.
if you have a better plan by all means lay it out, but ‘tear it all down’ fucks so many you don’t care about.
Yeah, you’re completely missing the point.
no, you’re full of shit.
Solve world hunger for a start.
Musks pay packages is enough to do that and still have leftover.
Use any and all publicly to talk about taxing the super rich. Reminding that tesla is only giving the end world hunger amount of money in projection of making 800 times as much.
How much would it costs to send all of the world’s politicians to the titanic using ocean gate subs? Just suggesting they discuss their disagreements down there.
Hit man idea and then buy Fox News.
I’d probably have to resort to fraud. I’d just say I needed seed money for some AI bullshit, and BAM, I’d be swimming in cash overnight.
