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?
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).
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.
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/
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.
Invest in unionization campaigns and non-profit independent media projects.
Few options that don’t necessarily even require a whole lot of capital (and I’m already doing one of these):
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Work in finance (and stay educated to be good at it), donate as much as possible to well researched charities.
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Work in healthcare, volunteer your services where they’d be otherwise unavailable.
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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).
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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.
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.
Finance the building of social housing.
It creates jobs, fuels industries and finally we’d get affordable housing.
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.
Its a hypothetical, let’s assume the capital comes from a charitable source.
Education - the only way to enable people to help themselves long term. And enable them to excell in a specific field they have interest in.
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.
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.
Probably self flying helicopters that three people can afford.
Being extra nice and considerate to everyone I meet is free.
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
Focus the capital on research that’s already going into creating matter assemblers. They use light to form matter. This creates food and objects at whatever scale the machines can be created at. No more hunger or digging material out of the Earth bc light is free from the sun. No more shipping costs. Construction happens on the spot. And since the machines can dissolve matter too, there’s your recycling and cleaning up the landfills and oceans.
