I'll take 0,01 if it ensures that the person who dies is a billionaire
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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The more often you'd press it, the higher your chances! Good luck, we're counting on you!
The bourgeoisie already does that offer, the proletariat can't choose it.
You pay taxes in the US, you've already paid for the random death of people.
paid, not been paid - that's a difference, and also not voluntarily. Arguably, those who don't pay taxes (i.e. took many times 10000) are causing the deaths of millions by their lobbying to become richer.
If you are a U.S. corporation who doesn't pay taxes you've already been paid billion$ for the death of hundreds of random people all across the globe.
Better?
*millions
About 2 people are dying every second regardless, so if i don't take the money, 2 people die.
Im actually saving a life by briefly capping the death rare at 1.
Sorry, but that's not how it works. 3 people die that instant.
I'll stick with the original scenario and gratefully receive $10,000 for saving a life.
But thank you for your new offer.
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I'd press it at least 500 times. Maybe more, you need to make sure it works and one random death isn't going to make the news. So gotta put in work and press it as many times in one instance. And, I get paid at the end?
The ultra rich:
I'd do it for $10!
We learned during Covid that at least half of the country would kill not some stranger, but their neighbors and friends, and not for ten grand, but to avoid the mild discomfort of wearing a mask and social distancing
many of them were willing to kill their own children, and even themselves, to briefly avoid that mild discomfort
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I'd do that for a dollar!
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That is happening everyday, done by thousands of people who could have stopped those deaths readily. Just they are obsessed with more wealth.
That sums up the IQ of Mrbeast fanbase right there, peak irony.
This is an old twilight zone episode. A women is given a box with one button on it and told to press it is she wants the money, but someone she doesn’t even know will die.
She decides the push the button, and then someone comes to collect the button device, saying that it will now be reset and taken to someone else now for the same challenge. Some random person on earth. Implying that she will be the next to die if the button gets pushed.
Frankly not a bad system. Slowly cleanses the selfish from the earth.
Was the lady told what would happen if she pressed the button?
Yes it was clear that someone somewhere in the world “who you don’t even know” would die. The characters have a debate:
“Maybe it’ll be just some Chinese peasant.”
“What if it’s someone’s newborn baby!”
More than anything I’m shocked at the casual dismissal of the Chinese peasant. WTF?
Anyway at the very end of the show the same guy who brought them this dilemma comes to collect the device and he very pointedly uses the same language to say “now it will go to someone new that you don’t even know.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)
Yes, that somewhere in the world, someone she doesnt know will die.
When Mr. Steward returns to collect the button box after the button is pressed, the lady asks what happens to the box next. She is told it will go to someone else with the same offer, with assurances that the new recipient will not know who she is. As the previous commenter said, the wording deeply implies she would be the certain "someone" targeted by the next button press.
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She got $20,000 if I'm not mistaken. In '80s money.
Also it was originally meant to kill her husband. They changed it for the show.
$200,000 - which if you consider that it was 1980s money, makes Mr. Beast’s $10,000 look very small.
By “originally meant to” I think you are referring to the short story it was based on ending that way.
A despondent Norma asks the stranger why her husband was the one who was killed. The stranger replies, "Do you really think you knew your husband?" strongly disapproved of the Twilight Zone version, especially the new ending
Frankly I find the twilight zone ending more chilling and suspenseful. The “do you think you really knew your husband” line is kinda sad trombone.
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I'm an 80s kid but I skipped the old Twilight episodes ... so I'm trying to darnest to catch up on them and I'm learning how awesome the ideas were even if the presentation is dated.
Just a random segue ...
I sound naive but I didn't realize that Rod Sterling wanted to tell stories about social issues -- racism and stuff but the networks wouldn't let him. If he wanted to tell a story about an alien or an invader then the networks would let it pass through. So it was a way for him to tell harder stories to the general public.
I think that's a lot of sci-fi like Invasion of the Body Snatcher and such but I just never thought about it deeply enough.
There's the treehouse of horror episode by the Simpsons where Bart is omnipotent and I knew it was based on something but I only recently learned it from: "It's a Good Life" which is a book and a Twilight Zone episode. I only watched the parody up until this year and I just thought it was a fun concept. Then I watched the original and a breakdown and it was a take on totalitarian regimes.
Yeah some of them are little moral parables and some are just setups for a thrill/shock twist.
This “button” episode was actually from the 80s reboot of TZ, not the Rod Serling original.
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No.
Also, fuck Mr. Beast. A billionaire proposing yet another Trolley Problem for amusement and engagement bait.
Jokes aside, no. I don't think I'd do it for $100 million. I seriously don't.
The justifications y'all are providing don't work for me. Maybe it's because I have a son, and I can imagine he would be the one to die, then I remember everyone is the child of someone, or the friend, etc.
I will not be the knowing cause of the death of some random person just for money. You guys can have it. No, thank you.
Yeah I'm not killing for money, even if I'm not the one doing the physical part of the execution
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Can I only use it once?
-- every billionaire in the world
Every time I pet my cat, a random stranger somewhere in the world dies. There's 8 billion people in the world, at least a few hundred are born and die every minute.
No.
Counter proposition: for every €10 I pay, a random fascist dies. I'm willing to spend all my money, and am willing to take gifts from others to continue paying more amounts of €10 for as long as I have any. I'll even spend €100 to prioritize highly influential fascists first.
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Yes. In fact I'll keep at it until Mr Beast is the one who drops dead. It's not about the money, but the principle of the thing.
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if anyone presses the button and I die I'm haunting your stupid ass forever
It's a life, how much could it cost. $10,000?
He’d do anything for attention, so I could see this video happening in future if he felt that social media would support him
I’m not sure I can answer that yet.
So what I’d suggest is sending me 10k and i’ll see if I take. However I’d also suggest we do multiple runs just to confirm consistency. I hear 100 times is a good number for checking consistencies.
That's the premise of the Twilight Zone episode "Button, Button". After she pressed it, the man making the deal said he'd go to "a random person on Earth" offering the same to them (implying that the person being killed will be the one who pushed the button earlier in the chain)
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