Asklemmy

buy politians to make them make laws to fuck over bilionaries, what is ironic lol

I am surprised nobody said 'education'. Every dollar spent there generates two dollars of worth. Educated people have fewer children and pollute less. Educated people don't vote as many morons into power. I sincerely believe many problems of the world could have been prevented with educating everyone involved.

I'd buy Facebook and rebrand it as V.

Pretty sure that would kill it.

Hire hitmen to remove the other 100 richest people in the 🌎.

Create a fund and use the dividends to fund free healthcare. Rather than spend it all in one go, I want it to continue generating a stable fund to keep things going.

The simple answer is to give it all away in some way. The notion that you can personally do good with that money is the delusion of every billionaire.

Buy and open source as much farming, education, housing, medical and general automation technology and is practical, then deploy non profit supply chains to allow even the furthest reaches of the planet the ability to acquire and implement this technology.

Subsidize the edges of this supply chain to ensure the most disadvantaged get equal access

With everything that remains, acquire the means of productions (farmland, housing, mines, wells, roads, rivers) that are in private lands and set them up with an autonomous non-profit democratic anti-privatisable organisational structure built to exploit those resources for the benefit of the local population.

Basically, it's doing the exact opposite of the "enclosures" and then making sure it doesn't happen again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Sugrue

Hire people who would actually know where to begin with that.

With 100 billion dollars, I would spend all of it on housing to end homelessness. Let's just provide homes for as many people as possible. All of it would get spent on this if I had my way.

Idk probably buy the Amazon rain forest and then hire blackwater or whatever their name is to patrol it and make sure no logging or clearing or anything else is taking place. The indigenous people can use the land for their needs but no one else.

Buy a major social media platform and run it into the ground. Oh wait...

In the book Capital in 21st Century, the author comes to a conclusion that one way to reduce inequality is by increasing the skills among the people. I would make higher education more accessible to poor people via scholarships, establishing colleges, etc..

I'd lean on the charities that have done the research on how best to deploy money and how much money those methods can support.

I'd also set myself and my friends/family up for life with a handful of millions each. But the rest gets donated.

Fund projects to drastically upscale desalination efforts.

First I'd find out how to make the money grow ethically

Then I'd invest in fusion power and green power, invest in lab-grown meat, invest in atmosphere cleaning, perhaps start some well-funded schools in areas of low education, sponsor some hospitals, etc.

I think I would also try to get asteroid mining to take off.

Chat suddenly gets handed Noblesse oblige cellphones

Organic farming?

Trees. I'd plant as many trees as possible across the world.

And an old dogs sanctuary. Just because.

Spend on research and development to end menstruation.

Probably just throw it at people until I run out. It'd at least help people up front.

First off, invest and diversify it in companies and startups also focused on positive change, like those creating technology for lowering the cost of food and necessities and improving lives of people with disabilities. Stuff that improves our everyday lives and creates real value in the world. Solving all the world's problems is not really something that one person can reasonably do on their own effectively, so it needs to be allocated to other groups of people where it can make a proper difference. Build housing and invest in education globally with the proceeds, helping those in need to get back on their feet. Investing it intelligently means you'll never run out of cash, and even have more year-over-year to improve the lives of more and more people. If there are a lot fewer people struggling in the world, those people can then dedicate time to solving world problems and improving lives and continue the cycle.

As you acquire more money you can provide more services to more people, make more positive investments and help and improve the lives of more people.

Shit, I think I just described capitalism. Whoops, nevermind. Sorry I know that sort of thing is frowned upon here. I think the best thing to do would be to give every person on earth $12 one-time. Well, minus the costs and logistics involved in doing that, so every person on earth can get $8 after expenses. That should do it.

Build a fusion power plant and put money into fuel production for it.

Send everyone 12 dollars.