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I'd start hiring hitmen to kill every billionaire in the world.

Plumbing is a noble trade.

Since I can't see the limit on the start-up capital, I remember UN making a plan to end world hunger for measly 6.6B$ after Elon said he'd sell stocks and fund it if they did so. So yeah, I'd fund that.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/18/tech/elon-musk-world-hunger-wfp-donation/

Everyone gets a bag of werther's original.

1. I would be very cautious with min-maxing charity. It's a path to Effective Altruism logic, which is a trap that lead to some weird trolley-problem-like eugenic-happy-pseudorationale. Stay away.

2. In a lifetime timeline I think that tremendous positive change could be created by teaching children recognize they emotion and regulate them. It have proven impact on... Well basicly everything. From addiction,/suicide/self-harm preventrion to things like akademic/work/artistic/cognitive performance or self-motivation or overall level of happiness. There is no area that wouldn't improve and all those amazing people would generate amazing outcomes.

3. in shorter horizon, and for people who already are adults.. And I think about it a lot, we should create an "audio-first learning platform". Start with open source lectures and quality courses. Maybe ad an app that show you visuals or test only when absolutely necessary. But we need something that will easli slow you to learn WHILE, you are doing meaningless task that you need to, do to survive. Something that you can use while doing house chores, work on assembly line or as delivery person, something you can listen discreetly in your non-suportive envirement... Podcast and audio books are on massive raise. E-learnign was on a.massive raise (until they all went public or private and turn to shit in a chase for profit). There is a need and there is a demand. Technologicaly it's very achievable. And "any phone and any headphones" is as small entry threshold one could ask for. We have the ships that could get as to the stars allredy, we just need the crew.

4. eddit: or help Hank an John eliminate tuberculosis completely - its fucking embaresing to have those.

At this point, start an media company. Call it Working Class Propaganda and publish stories that I think we should be talking about instead of what is out there. Explain how the rich are controlling the echo chambers and the topics of conversations so we can't ever get to solving real problems. Too many people get rich by us not solving these problems. How much money is spent on anti-union, anti-public transportation, or anti-universal health care? All that money is always spent by companies getting rich off the current system.

I have no clue how to explain some concepts in an easy manner, but if I had enough start up I would hire many others. Promise to never be AI articles or pictures. Explain open source and the problems of having a walled garden. Explain Israel having a honey pot setup for pedos and now they have blackmail on many American and EU elites.

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.

Possibly a more humble answer: Ask.

Life, and struggle, operate differently in hundreds of areas around even a single large country. Even individual towns might have ideas for different programs that would have varying levels of benefit, and operate much smoother through voluntary buy in.

I’d be open to fining / taxing the ultra rich, I’d just want to remember it’s a means to an end. We don’t improve people’s lives by “taking down the haves” alone.

Buy up huge tracts of Amazon forest real estate and carpetbomb it with anti-personnel mines so that nobody can go there, it can't be illegally logged, and poachers won't dare go there.

Yes this plan has flaws but can be tweaked.

Probably get as many conservatives out of power as possible. Once they're gone we can work on climate change, better electoral systems, removing the evils of capitalism, and so on.

Few options that don't necessarily even require a whole lot of capital (and I'm already doing one of these):

• Work in finance (and stay educated to be good at it), donate as much as possible to well researched charities.

• Work in healthcare, volunteer your services where they'd be otherwise unavailable.

• 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).

Invest in unionization campaigns and non-profit independent media projects.

To start, raise the income tax rates for corporations and high earners in the USA back to the levels before Reagan.

Eliminate the veto powers afforded certain countries in the UN.

Remove the bs cultural stigma against socialism in some countries.

Enforce international law and prosecute crimes against humanity.

Collapse the current US government by changing a 1 to a 0

Start-up capital means investors, investors mean expecting a return on investment, that means you must make sure that people you help will pay you back more than you spent helping them.

The concept in itself is contradictory. If you want to help someone, the easiest thing is not to expect anything in return for the help.

Depending on the maximum budget, I would create a foundation with the single purpose of promoting & integrating European cooperatives and unions, with a big focus on educating everyone on the importance of democracy specially in the management of resources.

My hope is that it could foster a strong enough grassroots movement to achieve the goal of a radically democratic society in some of the most "advanced" economies.

Finance the building of social housing.

It creates jobs, fuels industries and finally we'd get affordable housing.

Hire a militia to kidnap/vanish all billionaires.

Being extra nice and considerate to everyone I meet is free.

Figure out the genetics responsible for greed and then engineer an infectious disease to edit that shit out of the human genome for good.

Build open source software for public infrastructure

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.

Hit man idea and then buy Fox News.

i'm dirt poor but I feel like ive already has quite an impact on a reasonable number of people. I won't take about the specific things that i get up to but community work can reach a lot of people if you do it right. start a food not bombs, open an autonomous squatted homeless shelter

I would build decentralized platforms that secure the basic needs of a civilization.

1. decentralized world-scale messaging
2. decentralized world-scale data transfers (video, images, etc)
3. on top of these systems:

• anon voting with attestations
• reimplementation of all popular social media
• distributed gov functionality (political parties as a service)

Basically I would implement core functionality as a service. Everyone deserves a say in what they consume, in how they're governed. I would codify all of that, open source it, and foster a culture of continuous improvement for all systems of governance.

This pattern, if done correctly, could persist for generations to come, and redefine our relationship with governance, exchange, and freedom. The objective would be to most accurately capture the will of the governed, with minimal disruption or life intrusion.

Such a mechanism would be infectious. Eventually, every population in the world would adopt it or some form of it.

This would make the world better for everyone, in every industry, on every level.

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).

I would start buying plots of land in food deserts, demolish the buildings there and start up communal gardening hubs. Actually, there are a ton of things that could be done to areas like this to make them walkable and liveable — but gardening hubs first sounds good.

Focus the capital on research that's already going into creating matter assemblers. They use light to form matter. This creates food and objects at whatever scale the machines can be created at. No more hunger or digging material out of the Earth bc light is free from the sun. No more shipping costs. Construction happens on the spot. And since the machines can dissolve matter too, there's your recycling and cleaning up the landfills and oceans.

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 🤔

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.

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.

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.