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))
Reminds me a little of this short text adventure https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos
300billion of what?
lol. dollars. edited post
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.
here are a few ideas I had:
- invest / subsidized green tech
- lobby to stop oil and gas subsidies
- lobby to stop meat subsidies
- lobby for stricter environmental taxes and regulations.
- subsidize repair services so that it’s cheaper for people to fix things instead of buying new
- offer bad politicians a lot of money to resign
- buy companies that provide essential services (water gas net) and make them non profits
- do the same to things like Uber Facebook Google, and make ads optional
- make public transit free
- make affordable healthcare
- set up a charity with whatever’s left. withdraw 4% a year and split evenly it between to anyone who asks for it
with whatever’s left
Heh, several of your bullets can eat that full amount.
welp. if I ever become president then there goes the national debt
$300 Billion is both a huge sum for the individual, and a tiny sum for the world economy.
Lead by example, educate, and leverage.
Lead by building or converting one town to car free and 100% renewable.
Educate people on how to improve the world. Creating or buying radio and TV stations, producing entertaining programming.
Leverage by buying large fractions of companies to change their policies. Setup investor funds to do the same. Ensure all people I employ are paid well and treated with respect.
First off, whilst it might seem selfish, I’d get my personal shit fixed up, would take at most 50k and if I bought some apartment house to own as well, maybe a few hundred k on top.
Okay now I’m settled and healthy. Start making a media company. Hire some great talent. Hire some video game designers, politicians. Essentially start a very weird sort of studio.
Then a sort of a think-thank, a little bit. Focusing on what would be the most efficient ways of approaching systemic change. (I’ve tons of ideas already for those meets, notebooks full. Not too organised, I’m unafraid, and it’s hard to start reasoning them here due to the char limit of 10k).
Start a foundation, a league of some sorts. What I mean by that is have some sort of guiding ideology, a very rough and not too ideologically narrow, but also definitely what would be called leftist in traditional terms.
Then te work starts. Charity projects where they’re the most efficient, so they’ll have the largest effect. What that means will take a few comments to argue I’d wager.
Start promoting cooperation and whatnot. Fund streamers who join the league, so that for instance some streamers traveling in a poor country would have the ability to access the funds of the foundation to for instance help build some infra for a tiny village which will take away 50% of their travel time or work load or something, giving that community a better chance to grow.
So all these hundreds if not thousands of streamers going around the world, and if bigger infra projects are needed, the foundation can help with those as well. Like building some huge solar power/water distillation plants.
Just building from the ground up.
But that wouldn’t help jack shit with political issues we currently have. That requires another plan I have. Except if the league was also on point with what’s going on in local politics said places and could promote change with the amount of influence it had, when directed to smaller political entities it might be enough to sort of clean them od corrupt people as well if there is a democratic process of some sort at least.
Like using the foundations entire population to focus on some minor local election should overwhelm it. Do that enough and there’s a substantial effect. Maybe
Nuke everything, shit’s beyond saving
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.
Bounties.
As in Bounty toilet paper?
A bidet would be better.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Not if you pick off each new billionaire.
I would probably just feed as many hungry people for as long as possible.
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.
