I would start many companies and organizations based on open source business models developing various software and computer networking technology. The goal for each would be to become self-sustaining (paying employees appropriately but not necessarily attempting to generate profit), and with an objective of creating a unified suite of system administration tools that is equivalent to Microsoft’s Active Directory - but 100% open source and interoperable rather than proprietary.
Absolutely none of the developed software would include or support any of the kind of surveillance-state functions that are part of the current trend of collecting data on users for “AI”. If possible, technical methods for preventing any such data collection on users would be developed and implemented in every single project.
Overall the goal would be to out-compete every other computer networking product on the market in terms of convenience, stability and affordability - creating a complete set of best-in-class systems which act as a bulwark against any privacy-invading AI-enabled surveillance software.
*Edit: also some advocacy organizations like the ACLU and EFF with the same overall goal of reducing the global presence of surveillance-state garbage. Basically the antithesis of anything Peter Thiel is trying to do.
Start in the US with the goal of recycling 100% of all recyclables, build waste-to-energy plants, use the energy to power carbon capture, slow/reverse climate change, build the first high powered thorium nuclear power plant. I could keep going, but I like keeping myself grounded in reality.
I would spend billions of dollars ensuring that Trump dies poor and homeless.
I would move to the moon so my back pain doesn’t bother me as much.
Aside from the make-the-world-a-better-place stuff, I’ve always wanted to have the space/time to make my own holograms.
I have this idea for claymation+lasers+holograms to make little stop motion films, but as holograms.
I don’t know if it’s possible, but if like to play with the tech and find out
Pursue a career in culinary, burn myself out in commercial kitchens, then become a home cook and cook for family and friends holding BBQ and potluck block parties every week.
I realize during covid that I wasnt feeling fulfilled with my office job, and did odd jobs in between. One of it was helping a mutual friend’s small eatery as a cook. And felt fulfilled in he short 3 months I worked there before they were forced to shut down because of continuing lock down and a flood, than the up to that point 7 years of office work.
I don’t have savings to just cut off not working, took too many debt and got scammed out of a simple fraud credit card spending scam call. And my mental health was spiraling down to suicide ideation. Silver lining at that office was that we were contracted with a hospital to set up a mental health triage system so I got help from there. Bad thing was 2 years ago that team just left the company wholesale and even advised me not to go anywhere. Now I feel trapped that the meager amounts of searching for other work, not knowing how to whore myself out to companies for better pay because idk what the fuck I’ve done to whore out, just to fight inflation as the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
I’m a gullible motherfucker 🥹
End income disparity.
Honestly, this would be a decent way to just hit the reset button on the world. You have a magic supply of infinite money? Fuck it, everyone is a billionaire now, in every single currency. Sure, billionaires might try to leverage hard assets instead of liquid cash, but that’ll only get them so far when anyone can just buy their billion dollar business out from underneath them. The short term fallout would be hyperinflation of mythic proportions, and global pandemonium. Long term, we may actually see some socialist change in regards to the fact that money is largely useless now.
I would do so those things we said we would do as children i.e feed people. But, also go after all these fools destroying our world.
Yeah. I don’t see how people hear “infinite dollars” and say they want to get into cooking or develop an app. I would pay millions of people across the globe a thriving wage to take direct action saving coastal kelp forests, rebuild ecosystems without permission, and maybe even get around to some vigilantism.
I’d love to pursue iOS development.
Reinvent academia and make quality learning accessible to all at all times with free infrastructure. Not only it would be the most fun challenge to solve but it also would keep me occupied for years. Also probably L the biggest positive impact one person could have.
Everyone already said the humanitarian ones. I’d live in an off-grid, self-sustaining chalet in a remote mountain location with a wood shop, nice garage for project cars, and high speed internet.
If you could put in like ten minutes a day planning how to stop the Trisolarian invasion, we’d appreciate it.
Thanks for the reminder that I need to actually watch Three Body Problem (or finish the book) lol
Garden! Big garden! With trees! Figs tree, cherry tree, plum tree, apple tree, walnut tree, more trees idk. Then I can have people over to eat the surplus produce, and when I’m too old to pick any myself they can be the ones to pick them and share some with me.
Oh, multiple assassinations.
yeah where’s that bullionaire/oligarch/CEO list?
Start with dictators
Fund global universal healthcare, education, housing, food, and internet.
Lobby against any billionaire interests.
