Hit man idea and then buy Fox News.
Focus the capital on research that’s already going into creating matter assemblers. They use light to form matter. This creates food and objects at whatever scale the machines can be created at. No more hunger or digging material out of the Earth bc light is free from the sun. No more shipping costs. Construction happens on the spot. And since the machines can dissolve matter too, there’s your recycling and cleaning up the landfills and oceans.
Being extra nice and considerate to everyone I meet is free.
Hit squad for billionaires I guess. Does it need to be legal?
Possibly a more humble answer: Ask.
Life, and struggle, operate differently in hundreds of areas around even a single large country. Even individual towns might have ideas for different programs that would have varying levels of benefit, and operate much smoother through voluntary buy in.
I’d be open to fining / taxing the ultra rich, I’d just want to remember it’s a means to an end. We don’t improve people’s lives by “taking down the haves” alone.
Finance the building of social housing.
It creates jobs, fuels industries and finally we’d get affordable housing.
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.
At this point, start an media company. Call it Working Class Propaganda and publish stories that I think we should be talking about instead of what is out there. Explain how the rich are controlling the echo chambers and the topics of conversations so we can’t ever get to solving real problems. Too many people get rich by us not solving these problems. How much money is spent on anti-union, anti-public transportation, or anti-universal health care? All that money is always spent by companies getting rich off the current system.
I have no clue how to explain some concepts in an easy manner, but if I had enough start up I would hire many others. Promise to never be AI articles or pictures. Explain open source and the problems of having a walled garden. Explain Israel having a honey pot setup for pedos and now they have blackmail on many American and EU elites.
Might it just be better to grow ProPublica, 404media, or both instead of starting a new one?
Yes that would be a good network to plug into, but I think the more the better.
give them all a platform they can dish on - propublica, 404, wired’s great reporting, jacobin, mother jones, dailykos - there’s a fuckton of fantastic journalism on the left that goes nowhere because we don’t have a fox-level advocate echoing it - msnbc is at best a milquetoast echo of a lefty leaning platform.
Re vamp the education system to go back to like it was during the mid 20th century.
Cheap, effective, accessible.
Start-up capital means investors, investors mean expecting a return on investment, that means you must make sure that people you help will pay you back more than you spent helping them.
The concept in itself is contradictory. If you want to help someone, the easiest thing is not to expect anything in return for the help.
Its a hypothetical, let’s assume the capital comes from a charitable source.
Education - the only way to enable people to help themselves long term. And enable them to excell in a specific field they have interest in.
Figure out the genetics responsible for greed and then engineer an infectious disease to edit that shit out of the human genome for good.
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.
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 to 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.
assuming i somehow aquired Too Much Money (the centi-billionaire sorta Too Much Money), i’d give the money to land back projects, reforestation/rewilding projects, and native food forest projects, globally.
that probably still wouldn’t use up much of a centi-billionaire’s money, but i genuinely cannot grasp how much money that is… maybe get involved in politics & make it an international crime to charge money for anything that’s a human right, like housing/food/water 🤔
Copy hank and john green?
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.
Invest in unionization campaigns and non-profit independent media projects.
