My initial thought was that since 10% of the population hoard 50% of the wealth, that I would take that 300,000,000 and divide it amongst the other 90% to flip the corporate script on it’s head. But it turns out that’s only 40 bucks per person…
I’ve long held the belief that the greatest damage to the working class is the phrase “you should feel lucky to even have a job.” Because it allows the corporations to largely do whatever they want, creating a top-down economy by default.
But imagine if people only had to work if they wanted to. A writer could write without needing to get a “real job”. A carpenter who loves making homemade furniture and selling it no longer has to limit his hobby because he’s unable to make a living doing it. A person has a dream of running their own coffee shop, but can’t because they need all of their hours to just make sure the kids are fed.
If everyone can pursue a living how they want to make a living instead of stepping on our passions because there are bills to pay, then suddenly, the corporations have to deserve US, and not the other way around. I don’t need your shit wages. I don’t need your lack of health care. Make it worth my while for me to give my skills to your company or GTFO.
That’s essentially the dream of a UBI, and I initially thought I could kick start that by spreading my 300 billion around to the 90% rank and file. But it turns out I’m shit at math.
Start a shroom church. Create wizards. Lots of wizards.
Take over the world. Run it properly.
Start a new political party in the US that actually represents the people.
Raise my own private army
take over governments, be a benevolent dictator who forces people to lean that dictatorships are bad, that forces everyone to go to school (free education) and get a good minimum amount of basic knowledge
put a strictly controlled capitalist system in place that can make lots of money that will go to a socialist system that makes sure everyone can be happy.
force free healthcare (mental, dental, eye, all of it), free basic housing, decriminalize all drug, but school everyone in responsible recreational drug use and setup treatment centers for those that fall off the wagon.
Restrict free speech to the point where it makes sense. Everyone can talk whatever they want but if you have even a small following you better stop talking non scientific non democratic bullshit or I’ll jail your ass
Put in a boat load of restrictions in politics. All money must be visible, period. Politicians cannot own companies, they ca not own shares. Politicians will not be allowed to make decisions that step into things that are good for them personally. Remove political parties, all politicians should be independent, no more party politics. Voting would be per post. All politicians can register themselves for a post, show why they could do it best, and then we vote for the posts. Voting would be a Nation holiday and voting would be obligatory for at least 50% of all available posts
Get rid of churches and imaginary bullshit. Humanity has entered the era where it needs to grow up and stop believing in fairytales. If this means that we won’t get good horror movies anymore then I can veryuch live with that.
On capitalism: put a hard limit on howuch someone can own and owe. Debts would be limited to just a few thousand dollars per person. You can’t ownore than 10 million, anything beyond that will go to 100% taxes automatically. This will vaporize the gap between rich and poor.
Nonmoree private planes, mega yachts, etc. if you want to have a house & boat, as long as it’s under 10 million, go nuts!
Free minimum housing, make basic food items free, education free, healthcare free.
Switch to a 4/3 work week
Companies will he taken out of politics, they are not a person, they don’t have free speech, they won’t have speech. Company sizes will be limited to 5000-10000 employees, that’s it. Beyond that, it will be split up automatically. Companies will have to work together on bigger and mega projects
Justice systems would be reformed, now focussing on keeping the innocent out, instead of the guilty in. Focus would be 95% on rehabilitation, education, self improvement, the rest on the punishment part.
Break up and where possible, remove banks, and make them as small as possible
Put extreme restrictions in what can be speculated on, and invested in. You can’t buy debts, you can’t bet on companies failing, you can just invest to try and help a company a little and get a bit of a reward for that.
Ban all discrimination under heavy penalty. Live and let live.
Guns and weapons would be available under very heavy restrictions for sports, hobby, etc.
Marketing would be severely restricted. Companies can’t lie anymore, period. Commercials would be severely restricted. Nothing towards or for kids, products can just look what they are.
On the environment: a huge push will be made to transform car dependent cities to human dependent cities. Roads will be changed to parks. Cars will be allowed but cities will be humans first and it’ll be easier to get around with public transportation or bike or walking than by car. This will immensely change everything. Humans will be healthier, everything will be quieter and more beautiful. Architecture will change as giant depressing car parkings will change into beautiful parks. People still can have a car if they need to but most won’t want to (see the Netherlands for the past 4 decades, and France where they recently started this too)
Once it’s all rolling smoothly, I will then step down, and start the elections, and I’ll move on to the next country to invade and take over to deploy my evil plans. Heeeeehehehehheheeh.
Retire to some island in the middle of nowhere and build myself an evil villain lair. Once money runs out threaten for 1 Beeeellion dollars. If 300 billion usd isn’t spent then donate the rest to some child cancer hospital or something anonymously post-mortem.
Any other choice would be suboptimal.
A question for the economist here, does paying my country’s national debt help?
not a economist, but no, it does not help (at least not really in short term, in very long it does pay okay-ish (depends on what kind of debt is it, but it can help keep ties with other nations intact))
Donate to cancer research
Trains
Create the world’s largest charitable foundation and make everyone beg before their presentations.
Fund free education and health care for everyone in the world regardless of race, nationality and creed. Imposed no matter how much kicking and screaming certain countries might do to oppose it. With appropriate countermeasures for each specific country that opposes it. A random country in the middle east that hates educating girls or whatever? Armed guards and other related measures as needed. US has entrenched for profit health care? Fund legislation that rips out the entire system by the roots etc.
Excess funds would be invested in such a way as to fund those programs in perpetuity. With safeguards put in place so that I can be reasonably certain that it won’t be easy to dismantle from within or without.
Assuming I have enough money left over, I’d do the same for housing.
If I still have money left over if also fund ways of tackling the climate crisis and changing corporate strategy so instead of chasing infinite growth in a finite world the mentality is more about stability and stewardship, of the company and of the planet.
Change other countries beliefs, by force if necessary? Ive heard that before somewhere…
But its not wrong because were the good guys!
Not what I had in mind when I said that, but intent doesn’t translate well over text. What I had in mind is protection for the school/students from people who would rather enforce their views through force, nothing more than that. The idea is that everyone has a chance to get an education.
Yeah that sounds better^^ But Im afraid it wouldnt be that effective then, if e.g. a majority of a country believes that women shouldnt go to school, most probably wouldnt even if given the chance, because of pressure from friends and family.
There are about 2 billion people under 14 in the world. Assuming half of them have access to free education you would still only have $300 per student.
I would give my money to this guy
Assassinate the other billionaires. I genuinely believe billionaires are the source of all the biggest problems the planet has right now.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No.
Peter Thiel isn’t quiet. Egghead man isn’t quiet.
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.
Give 299 billion to Ukraine
I think about this all the time and I still have no idea.
A good chunk of that money would end up going to experts to advise me how best to use it since I would want to maximize what good I could bring… 😩
