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Re vamp the education system to go back to like it was during the mid 20th century.

Cheap, effective, accessible.

Finance the building of social housing.

It creates jobs, fuels industries and finally we'd get affordable housing.

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.

Hit squad for billionaires I guess. Does it need to be legal?

Definitely not by building a $1T Robot army.

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.

I would build decentralized platforms that secure the basic needs of a civilization.

1. decentralized world-scale messaging
2. decentralized world-scale data transfers (video, images, etc)
3. 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.

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

I'd start hiring hitmen to kill every billionaire in the world.

Invest in unionization campaigns and non-profit independent media projects.

Plumbing is a noble trade.

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/

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.

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.

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.

Collapse the current US government by changing a 1 to a 0

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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. eddit: or help Hank an John eliminate tuberculosis completely - its fucking embaresing to have those.

Everyone gets a bag of werther's original.

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.

I'd domesticate bears.

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.

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.

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.

Few options that don't necessarily even require a whole lot of capital (and I'm already doing one of these):

• Work in finance (and stay educated to be good at it), donate as much as possible to well researched charities.

• Work in healthcare, volunteer your services where they'd be otherwise unavailable.

• 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).