Finance the building of social housing.
It creates jobs, fuels industries and finally we’d get affordable housing.
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
But first make sure their will & estate stipulates that their wealth will be evenly distributed among every deserving needful hardworking person on the planet, right?
Why? Just imply sending another hitman! I think the billionaires would find themselves feeling very altruistic eventually.
No… They’d just scale up security
I don’t. They’d send their own hitmen.
No need. If they have heirs, the wealth will be split. If the resulting heirs still have enough to be billionaires apply the solution recursively. Eventually it will be diluted enough that nobody is a billionaire.
If there are no heirs it usually goes to the state (depending on jurisdiction).
Re vamp the education system to go back to like it was during the mid 20th century.
Cheap, effective, accessible.
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.
There’s people living there though. Aboriginals.
Look, people die all the time.
Establish a representative council from people all over the world like this project to decide what projects would be usefull. An undefined amount of start-up capital is too much power for a single person to handle responsible so I’d delegate those decisions to as many different people as possible.
Plumbing is a noble trade.
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Someone secure John Leguizamo he is our greatest asset.
man a young John Leguizamo would totally rock that role playing Luigi M.
Hit squad for billionaires I guess. Does it need to be legal?
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 lot harder to manufacture consent or invent conflict if people can’t be threatened by starvation.
Seed sharing beats game theory.
It’s a capitalism and “free market” issue and always has been.
Definitely not by building a $1T Robot army.
Invest in unionization campaigns and non-profit independent media projects.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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)
- on top of these systems:
- 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.
