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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[–] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

Eastern Most Europeans who use , as a decimal point will only receive fifteen euros.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    The only Europeans that use the . as a decimal separator are the British and present and former colonies.

    All continental Europe except Gibraltar use the ,, and consequently so do most of Africa and South America.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How come they managed to get data for Greenland?

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

    Because enough of the people who live there answered the question? 🤷

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I get using a comma as a radix, sure. It makes grammatical sense, like saying "two, and three tenths", just a little pause between concepts.

    But how does it make any sense anywhere to use a full-stop for grouping digits?! "1.000.000.000.000" looks ludicrous, not to mention we can't even agree on whether thats a billion or a million!

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  • [–] 74 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    I know they meant "worst" in the sense of "bad at math," but now I'm imagining the world's worst mathematician trying to figure out how to use math to commit ethic cleansing or poison water supplies or make pugs' noses even more fucked up or something.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    ethic cleansing

    Tbh that doesn't sound too bad? Like maybe take a nice shower but with cruelty free/plant-based soap that wasn't animal tested (and obviously there's no drought concern in this scenario).

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That would be 'ethical cleansing'. Ethic cleansing would be to cleanse ethic, meaning you are getting rid of the ethic. That is basically just erasing one's morals. I think that's already being taken care of.

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

    Damn, I'm bad at maths, but am no mathematician...

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

    That took me too long to get, I guess I'm the one on the right.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The question isn't if I'd press the button, but how many times can I press it before it breaks.

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