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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Was gonna say billionaires, but then I thought: why not go myself? See you on the other side, losers.

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[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 points 6 days ago
[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 days ago

Every white US liberal too cowardly to throw a punch

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 113 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Every person in the world with a net worth over $1B USD. Then I'd equally reallocate their money across every human on earth.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Rather than re-allocating their money across every human on earth, why not allocate it inversely proportional to the net worth of the recipient (and maybe also local currency conversion rate), to uplift the poorest folks?

Could probably choose a lower number, too - say, $100M. Nobody needs anywhere remotely close to that.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 22 points 1 week ago

The economics of unlucky Mario Party spaces

[–] bratwurstest@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago

Yeah 100M feels right. Also, wealth is usually tied up in non liquid assets, and it makes no sense to either force liquidation even if it crashes the value, or divide ownership equally among 9 billion people. Each asset needs to be re-allocated on a case by case basis. Like, the private international bridge in Detroit, it's much more valuable as a single asset than the steel scrap it could be sold for.

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[–] UsefulInfoPlz@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I’d rather make sure everyone has everything they need for at least basic life. Healthcare, education, infrastructure to name a few. Food for schools. I know a lot of countries already have this. But many don’t even have access to clean water. Ideally worldwide. And throw corrupt politicians and military overlords in there. Although many of them would be counted in the >$1b. Get rid of the religious wackjobs and maybe we could start progressing as a species.

[–] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's just gonna drive up inflation. Instead, invest that into better farms, industries, businesses, and schools that provide services at-cost or free. Or just use the assets left by those guys for the public good, they're already set up.

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[–] espurr@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

B-but billionaires have rights too!!

[–] jlow@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They can stop being billionaires by giving away that money anytime they want to not go into the black hole.

[–] espurr@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

OMG that's actually fair

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seems like an arbitrary threshold. Does anybody actually need $900 million? Or $300 million? Or...

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[–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Using Hawking radiation!

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago

I'd choose the entirety of American politics.

[–] haywire7@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Politicians

Hedge fund management

Influencers

Not exhaustive but a good start

[–] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

High frequency trader

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Republicans.

[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Another black hole. I just wanna see what happens you know?

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They just merge. They're just really really dense concentrations of mass-energy, not extradimensional portals.

[–] bdot@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago
  • really dense. ✅
  • concentrations of mass ✅
  • not extra dimensional portal ✅

you just described my ex

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Every. Single. Fascist.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Trick question. Time dilation means nothing ever actually enters a black hole. It just keeps getting infinitesimally close.

[–] bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

"are we there yet" ... "are we there yet"...

[–] crimson_iris@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not that scientifically literate, but isn't that just from the perspective of an outside observer?

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[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

From your point of view yes. I guess it fades into the infrared and keeps fading away.

[–] morto@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

That just makes it a worse fate

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[–] jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago

The Unsellable Elephant that thw other guy just got on his weird application survey question.

[–] OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app 13 points 1 week ago

All of the Republicans.

[–] Butterbee@beehaw.org 13 points 1 week ago

Billonaires

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

The human compulsion to invent religions.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago
[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

I want to throw some spaghetti in. Spaghetti gets sphagettified

[–] OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Myself, and hope that it will be a fast end

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mosquitos, all of them. Ecosystem will equilibrate eventually and all will be fine.

[–] tyranny@crazypeople.online 1 points 6 days ago

ecosystem equilibriates by inventing super-mosquito

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 week ago

It's actually only a handful out of the 3500 species that's an issue.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

a radio broadcast of Never Gonna Give You Up

[–] 5715@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

He'll probably make a deal with the black hole and find a way out. He is scary!

[–] the_flying_pig@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

A white hole.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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