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Would you support the human sacrifice of 1 billionaire per year? (exploding-heads.com)

submitted 1 year ago by masterofballs@exploding-heads.com to c/askexplodingheads@exploding-heads.com

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Ok hear me out. Lots of people complaining about billionaires.

I get it. They have a lot of money. They don't always give it away unless it's to avoid taxes.

Just taking money from billionaires feels wrong

What if instead we took a random drawing and just sacrificed one per year?

So this way they would be incentivised to donate money. But if they wanted to risk it they could try.

Maybe our corn crops would grow better too.

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[–] Owner_of_donky@exploding-heads.com 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

No. Maybe just restrict them from influencing our lives. If we spread every billionaire's money like Alice suggested there would be a massive inflation.

[–] masterofballs@exploding-heads.com 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

1,000$ thats like a new pixel 7 for every person on earth.

[–] PunknSeed@exploding-heads.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you even math? $1,000 for every person on earth is about $8,000,000,000,000 (that's 8 Trillion). That's 57x Bezos' net worth. But about half of Jeff's net worth is tied up in Amazon stocks that can only be sold in small amounts, so that money is largely untouchable. Even assuming the other half of his net worth is liquid, you'd need to completely pillage 114 Jeff Bezos to give everyone on earth $1,000.

[–] masterofballs@exploding-heads.com 1 points 1 year ago

I just accepted someone else's math above I didn't do it.

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