Most of these hypotheticals are pretty lame. Like… Why would I care if another person got the same amount as me? I would only care if everyone got the same amount because that would cause massive inflation and now my million dollars is worthless.
I’d invent a machine that hits the button 1000 times a second and after a bunch of hours I’d buy Tesla, Amazon, Google and Apple and so on and turn them into companies profitable for humanity.
imagine: you get a dollar but so does elon musk. what would you do?
if everybody presses the button, we end up with a massive wealth inequality problem
and that’s actually how companies operate: the employees work for the company (akin to pressing buttons, just more tedious), and for that they get wages, but the company’s owners also get money that way. repeat the process and the company’s owners end up being massively wealthy, which leads to massive wealth inequality.
Most of these hypotheticals are pretty lame. Like… Why would I care if another person got the same amount as me? I would only care if everyone got the same amount because that would cause massive inflation and now my million dollars is worthless.
Even if everyone got the same amount, I would just press the button every week - and now I’ve YOLO implemented a form of Universal Basic Income.
I’d invent a machine that hits the button 1000 times a second and after a bunch of hours I’d buy Tesla, Amazon, Google and Apple and so on and turn them into companies profitable for humanity.
But first I’d buy some ice-cream.
What options could I place before I press the button?
Everyone’s money won’t mean much. Welcome to being poor, billionaries.
imagine: you get a dollar but so does elon musk. what would you do?
if everybody presses the button, we end up with a massive wealth inequality problem
and that’s actually how companies operate: the employees work for the company (akin to pressing buttons, just more tedious), and for that they get wages, but the company’s owners also get money that way. repeat the process and the company’s owners end up being massively wealthy, which leads to massive wealth inequality.
is wealth inequality inherently bad? on a global level it seems to benifit most lemmings/redditors/bird brains?
wealth inequality is unavoidable, but excessive wealth inequality is a disease on the society