Approach Moshe Safdie's company about building Habitat 2027, 60 years after the scaled down compromise was built:
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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).
Start or join a local cooperative that does something you're passionate about. Give members of your community stable and meaningful employment with real ownership, autonomy and decision-making.
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.
I would start a workers' revolution, then imprison anyone opposed to the revolution, then imprison anyone who was for the revolution but not in the right way, and then crush all remaining dissent and hand-pick my successor.
Hmm
Figure out the genetics responsible for greed and then engineer an infectious disease to edit that shit out of the human genome for good.
So you'll end up with a may more passive humanity?
This will probably be impopular, but olease hear me out.
Greed in and of itself is a huge driving force, throwing that away is stupid, channelling it for good is way more smart.
Exessive material greed is evil.
Greed is often related to status as much as it is related to wealth, so what does that mean?
Give people status, rather than pure wealth.
Set up a society where wealth is seen as decadent, but people can gain a lot of status by doing good things.
Embrace naming building, blocks, public facilities, parks and stuff like that after good people, you are a researcher, developing a cure for Aids, you get a medical university named after you, stuff like that.
Embrace one of our most powerful motivational forces, don't just throw it out.
Just trying to think of what greed got us.
Its a long list but Id say it basically all leads to Modern technology - by which we can say is partially responsible for modern medicine. Im not sure greed is required for that or will it over all be super beneficial, considering climate change. At least, we have no problem harnessing it and we already do much of what you say. I think we just need to look at what is greed and what is actually mental illness.
Its greedy to want more money than you could ever need. Its mentally ill to want the biggest money number because its super big.
More than that though. When it comes to hoarding there is an emotional attachment. Kind of like when a dog is food aggressive. Hoarders will lash out if you threaten their hoard. Now you might think this makes sense if someone is threatening to take your money but if that money adds no intrinsic value to your personal being its just the same as you freaking out some one took your "treasures" (actual garbage) from you house and disposed of it properly.
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Build open source software for public infrastructure
Being extra nice and considerate to everyone I meet is free.
Hit man idea and then buy Fox News.
Solve world hunger for a start.
Musks pay packages is enough to do that and still have leftover.
Use any and all publicly to talk about taxing the super rich. Reminding that tesla is only giving the end world hunger amount of money in projection of making 800 times as much.
As a single person it would be really difficult unless the start up capital is very high.
Personally I would think, building a company in a developing country fucusing on creating infrastructure for sustainable economy and giving people equal chanced would be great. (Would only work in a vacuum tho, since many imperialistic forces are still employed in many developing nations keeping them dependend on developed nations).
At the very least you need some sort of mechanism that makes the project self sustaining.
assuming i somehow aquired Too Much Money (the centi-billionaire sorta Too Much Money), i'd give the money to land back projects, reforestation/rewilding projects, and native food forest projects, globally.
that probably still wouldn't use up much of a centi-billionaire's money, but i genuinely cannot grasp how much money that is.. maybe get involved in politics & make it an international crime to charge money for anything that's a human right, like housing/food/water 🤔
It would be something... Violent. Can't change the system to be better by using the system. Gotta destroy it first, and there will be... so much resistance against that.
But to make life better for the majority, action will have to be covert. None of that terrorist shit with shock, awe, destruction of public spaces, and the loss of civilian life. No names, no titles, no spotlight, no ego.
Making life better for the majority will also be a lifetime career, and the resulting world that will hopefully be built from such action would not be for me to live in, but future generations.
I say all this as some random guy on the Internet, but... One can dream. For now I'll settle with my job as an active trade unionist.
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I’d probably have to resort to fraud. I’d just say I needed seed money for some AI bullshit, and BAM, I’d be swimming in cash overnight.
What's a reasonable amount of start-up capital? I wonder if you could make a big difference in US politics if you had like 50 billion USD and invested it all into promoting progressive (i.e. left of the DNC-mainstream) politicians and policy. Making sure that the USA don't fuck everyone else's shit up would make a huge difference.
Like, how much money are all the fascist billionaires actually investing into politics?
Might be a little late for this approach, though, at this point I'd expect that three letter agencies would just assassinate me if I started that now.
How much would it costs to send all of the world's politicians to the titanic using ocean gate subs? Just suggesting they discuss their disagreements down there.
Copy hank and john green?
I would produce a pill that rewires the human brain to focus on the good events occurring around them and in the world.
Far too many of our societal problems are due to a significant portion of the world focusing on negative events. How many channel 9 news events are focused on car crashes or shootings? How much social media profit is based upon rage bait? How many hours wasted scrolling on insta fantasizing about being anyone but your own self?
We have within ourselves already great capacity to do great things, we just need to unchain that potential.
There are negative events in the world that have significant impact on people's lives, with worsening effects the longer it is ignored.
The pill you're proposing would probably get massively endorsed by the wrong people, as it would make whole populations into happy complacent little workers for those at the top.