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About 2 people are dying every second regardless, so if i don’t take the money, 2 people die.
Im actually saving a life by briefly capping the death rare at 1.
Sorry, but that’s not how it works. 3 people die that instant.
I’ll stick with the original scenario and gratefully receive $10,000 for saving a life.
But thank you for your new offer.
Nuh-huh
Yeah-huh
The next second 3 people dies, so you were just prolonging one’s suffering by 1 second
Prolong an inevitable death by one second for $10,000.
Is that stackable?
That is happening everyday, done by thousands of people who could have stopped those deaths readily. Just they are obsessed with more wealth.
The bourgeoisie already does that offer, the proletariat can’t choose it.
The ultra rich:
I’d do it for $10!
I’d do that for a dollar!
I’m poor and would do it for 100.
You pay taxes in the US, you’ve already paid for the random death of people.
paid, not been paid - that’s a difference, and also not voluntarily. Arguably, those who don’t pay taxes (i.e. took many times 10000) are causing the deaths of millions by their lobbying to become richer.
If you are a U.S. corporation who doesn’t pay taxes you’ve already been paid billion$ for the death of hundreds of random people all across the globe.
Better?
*millions
This is an old twilight zone episode. A women is given a box with one button on it and told to press it is she wants the money, but someone she doesn’t even know will die.
She decides the push the button, and then someone comes to collect the button device, saying that it will now be reset and taken to someone else now for the same challenge. Some random person on earth. Implying that she will be the next to die if the button gets pushed.
Frankly not a bad system. Slowly cleanses the selfish from the earth.
She got $20,000 if I’m not mistaken. In '80s money.
Also it was originally meant to kill her husband. They changed it for the show.
$200,000 - which if you consider that it was 1980s money, makes Mr. Beast’s $10,000 look very small.
By “originally meant to” I think you are referring to the short story it was based on ending that way.
A despondent Norma asks the stranger why her husband was the one who was killed. The stranger replies, “Do you really think you knew your husband?” strongly disapproved of the Twilight Zone version, especially the new ending
Frankly I find the twilight zone ending more chilling and suspenseful. The “do you think you really knew your husband” line is kinda sad trombone.
Yeah, I really liked the line in the Twilight Zone when she asked who it would b given to next, “I can assure you it will be offered to someone whom you don’t know.” Pretty chilling IYAM
I’m assuming the device gets passed on regardless if the button is pressed. If that’s the case, does it have any correlation to selfishness getting punished? Me living or dying has to do with the NEXT person being selfish, not whether I was selfish or not. Unless I’m missing something
I believe the idea is that if you push the button, it goes on to someone else. If they DON’T push the button, they get skipped. It goes to someone else besides them. And so on, until SOMEONE does push the button. And at that point, the last person who pushed the button gets iced.
And so in that way, every person who pushes the button inevitably gets killed, removing selfish people from the world while morally upright people get passed over.
This isn’t detailed in the episode, it’s just my mind filling in between the lines.
Ok that makes way more sense.
I’m an 80s kid but I skipped the old Twilight episodes … so I’m trying to darnest to catch up on them and I’m learning how awesome the ideas were even if the presentation is dated.
Just a random segue …
I sound naive but I didn’t realize that Rod Sterling wanted to tell stories about social issues – racism and stuff but the networks wouldn’t let him. If he wanted to tell a story about an alien or an invader then the networks would let it pass through. So it was a way for him to tell harder stories to the general public.
I think that’s a lot of sci-fi like Invasion of the Body Snatcher and such but I just never thought about it deeply enough.
There’s the treehouse of horror episode by the Simpsons where Bart is omnipotent and I knew it was based on something but I only recently learned it from: “It’s a Good Life” which is a book and a Twilight Zone episode. I only watched the parody up until this year and I just thought it was a fun concept. Then I watched the original and a breakdown and it was a take on totalitarian regimes.
Yeah some of them are little moral parables and some are just setups for a thrill/shock twist.
This “button” episode was actually from the 80s reboot of TZ, not the Rod Serling original.
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No.
Also, fuck Mr. Beast. A billionaire proposing yet another Trolley Problem for amusement and engagement bait.
Jokes aside, no. I don’t think I’d do it for $100 million. I seriously don’t.
The justifications y’all are providing don’t work for me. Maybe it’s because I have a son, and I can imagine he would be the one to die, then I remember everyone is the child of someone, or the friend, etc.
I will not be the knowing cause of the death of some random person just for money. You guys can have it. No, thank you.
Yeah I’m not killing for money, even if I’m not the one doing the physical part of the execution
You could save way more than 1 life with $100M. Malaria nets save on average one life for every $3k donated. Child deworming doesn’t save a life per se, but you can stop a child from being permanently disabled for ~$500.
$100 million brings you into a different philosophical debate. $100 million is more than enough that you could use the money to save at least a few lives
If the whole 100M was spent on saving lives, no contest.
What if you just kept back $50 for a nice meal out? Is that meal cursed?
I would in a heartbeat. I would keep 5k for myself, 10k for my parents. And donate the rest to cleaning up the environment, and curing cancer/diabetes. That would save more people.
Does the name of that random person rhyme with “rump” or “rootin” ?
if anyone presses the button and I die I’m haunting your stupid ass forever
He’d do anything for attention, so I could see this video happening in future if he felt that social media would support him
No.
Counter proposition: for every €10 I pay, a random fascist dies. I’m willing to spend all my money, and am willing to take gifts from others to continue paying more amounts of €10 for as long as I have any. I’ll even spend €100 to prioritize highly influential fascists first.
It’s a life, how much could it cost. $10,000?
I’d press it at least 500 times. Maybe more, you need to make sure it works and one random death isn’t going to make the news. So gotta put in work and press it as many times in one instance. And, I get paid at the end?
