I'd start hiring hitmen to kill every billionaire in the world.
Youre going to need to start a cult and get disciples. Even with some start up capital they can out bid you so your only hope is religious indoctrination.
Not a bad idea
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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.
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 that 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.
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I would be very cautious with min-maxing charity. It's a path to Effective Altruism logic, which is a trap that lead to some weird trolley-problem-like eugenic-happy-pseudorationale. 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.
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?
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.
Yes that would be a good network to plug into, but I think the more the better.
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.
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).
Collapse the current US government by changing a 1 to a 0
Aw, geez...
Buy up huge tracts of Amazon forest real estate and carpetbomb it with anti-personnel mines so that nobody can go there, it can't be illegally logged, and poachers won't dare go there.
Yes this plan has flaws but can be tweaked.
Invest in unionization campaigns and non-profit independent media projects.
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.
Probably get as many conservatives out of power as possible. Once they're gone we can work on climate change, better electoral systems, removing the evils of capitalism, and so on.
To start, raise the income tax rates for corporations and high earners in the USA back to the levels before Reagan.
Eliminate the veto powers afforded certain countries in the UN.
Remove the bs cultural stigma against socialism in some countries.
Enforce international law and prosecute crimes against humanity.
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.
Finance the building of social housing.
It creates jobs, fuels industries and finally we'd get affordable housing.
Build open source software for public infrastructure
Start or join a local cooperative that does something you're passionate about. Give members of your community stable and meaningful employment with real ownership, autonomy and decision-making.
Being extra nice and considerate to everyone I meet is free.
Depending on the maximum budget, I would create a foundation with the single purpose of promoting & integrating European cooperatives and unions, with a big focus on educating everyone on the importance of democracy specially in the management of resources.
My hope is that it could foster a strong enough grassroots movement to achieve the goal of a radically democratic society in some of the most "advanced" economies.
As a single person it would be really difficult unless the start up capital is very high.
Personally I would think, building a company in a developing country fucusing on creating infrastructure for sustainable economy and giving people equal chanced would be great. (Would only work in a vacuum tho, since many imperialistic forces are still employed in many developing nations keeping them dependend on developed nations).
I would start a workers' revolution, then imprison anyone opposed to the revolution, then imprison anyone who was for the revolution but not in the right way, and then crush all remaining dissent and hand-pick my successor.
I would build decentralized platforms that secure the basic needs of a civilization.
- decentralized world-scale messaging
- decentralized world-scale data transfers (video, images, etc)
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- anon voting with attestations
- reimplementation of all popular social media
- distributed gov functionality (political parties as a service)
Basically I would implement core functionality as a service. Everyone deserves a say in what they consume, in how they're governed. I would codify all of that, open source it, and foster a culture of continuous improvement for all systems of governance.
This pattern, if done correctly, could persist for generations to come, and redefine our relationship with governance, exchange, and freedom. The objective would be to most accurately capture the will of the governed, with minimal disruption or life intrusion.
Such a mechanism would be infectious. Eventually, every population in the world would adopt it or some form of it.
This would make the world better for everyone, in every industry, on every level.
Hit man idea and then buy Fox News.
i'm dirt poor but I feel like ive already has quite an impact on a reasonable number of people. I won't take about the specific things that i get up to but community work can reach a lot of people if you do it right. start a food not bombs, open an autonomous squatted homeless shelter
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.
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.
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 🤔
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.
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.
Approach Moshe Safdie's company about building Habitat 2027, 60 years after the scaled down compromise was built:




Hit squad for billionaires I guess. Does it need to be legal?
Copy hank and john green?
Definitely not by building a $1T Robot army.
I'd research an internet node that could be raised with a couple of bake sales and deployed anywhere with the objective of providing free high-speed wifi to the populated world.
After a roll-out to get every point on the globe covered (that has people near it), we'd work on an upgrade campaign to make sure it is redundant and robust and never shuts down no matter how angry the local dictators are.
The people have advantage when crowdsourcing repairs and reroutes around censorship and responding to DDOS so this should usher in a wave of democratic (lower case) movements across the world. Movements towards public services and benefits will likely follow, according to CIA analysts who study such things.
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