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9 billion IQ move (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
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Will you press the button? You will recieve 15,000€ but The world's worst mathematician will also recieve the same amount. A image of doctor robotnik from the sonic movie pressing a button captioned "Me realizing I can get 500,000€"
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[–] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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