What would you do with 100 billion dollars to have the most positive impact on the largest number of people?

CableP13@waveform.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 82 points –

My partner and I were discussing this over dinner, our ideas went from buying up land to finance organic farming and distributing it at the lowest price to crashing the financial system to "reset" everybody's bank account with no possible recovery. Any other ideas?

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Hire hitmen to remove the other 100 richest people in the 🌎.

This is a great answer. But you have to realize, "hitmen" cannot operate autonomously. You would need to fund them, create a private investigative network, etc etc so that you could hunt down other billionaires. basically, you have to get your hands dirty if you want this to work.

So... Not to techbro this, but can we crowdfund this and accidentally reinvent the revolution?

Unfortunately unless you introduced some kind of sci-fi "keep what you kill" culture like in Chronicals of Riddick, no. Revolution is expensive, and those that have money are absolutely not interested in that nonsense. Ultimately if you want a revolution, it had to happen without an individual profit motive.

It’s a good start but then their wealth just transfers to their next of whatever. Hire hitmen after and during investing in creating political changes that ensure wealth is more fairly distributed through society.