[blue]
If you could push a button that gives you a hundred thousand dollars but a random person dies, would you do it? 

[yellow, cautious]
Interesting thought experiment… intuitively, I’d say no, but it’s worth thinking about… it’s a genuine moral dilemma in a capitalist world: there’s a dialectic between our desires and the common good…

MEANWHILE, BILLIONAIRES

[an orange guy in a suit is shown with a terrifying grin pushing as many buttons as possible at once on a table, slamming one of the buttons, and even using their foot to press an extra one]

https://thebad.website/comic/the_totally_hypothetical_button_thought_experiment

  • turdas@suppo.fi
    32·
    2 days ago

    You’d have to kill 10,000 people to become a billionaire this way. Obvious fact perhaps, but it’s easy to forget how unnecessarily much a billion dollars is.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      21 hours ago

      You’d have to kill 10,000 people to become a billionaire

      You could have just stopped there.

      It’d probably still be true, recognizing that billionaires tend to indirectly kill at least that many just from the artificial scarcity required for their hoarding of resources and THEN you add the direct results of their specific actions…