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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

Solve world hunger for a start.

Musks pay packages is enough to do that and still have leftover.

Use any and all publicly to talk about taxing the super rich. Reminding that tesla is only giving the end world hunger amount of money in projection of making 800 times as much.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Definitely not by building a $1T Robot army.

[–] Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

what did they do to you to deserve such a shit fate?

[–] hexdream@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

Copy hank and john green?

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

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

Cheap, effective, accessible.

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would produce a pill that rewires the human brain to focus on the good events occurring around them and in the world.

Far too many of our societal problems are due to a significant portion of the world focusing on negative events. How many channel 9 news events are focused on car crashes or shootings? How much social media profit is based upon rage bait? How many hours wasted scrolling on insta fantasizing about being anyone but your own self?

We have within ourselves already great capacity to do great things, we just need to unchain that potential.

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