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Can I only use it once?
-- every billionaire in the world
Someone just watched The Box lol
I immediately thought of this as well and am irked that now I remember this terrible film
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.
The next second 3 people dies, so you were just prolonging one’s suffering by 1 second
Prolong an inevitable death by one second for $10,000.
Is that stackable?
Sorry, but that’s not how it works. 3 people die that instant.
Nuh-huh
Yeah-huh
I’ll stick with the original scenario and gratefully receive $10,000 for saving a life.
But thank you for your new offer.
Honestly this seems like a pretty good representation of how powerful people cope with the consequences of their ambitions.
I would think you random death would just be added to the baseline.
I don’t know, I better take the money I think…
Well yes. But I think taking the money should actively kill someone, you can just get free money for a death that would happen anyway.
that was not a stipulation.
Since people are already dying at random I would take it. Given they do not actively enforce the dying part.
I would do it and repeat it until i read that MrBeast or - insert name of random billionaire - dies.
the chance of that happening is basically zero
Well with every death the chances grow :D
Ok Thanos
He’d do anything for attention, so I could see this video happening in future if he felt that social media would support him
Does the name of that random person rhyme with “rump” or “rootin” ?
Those two, and many others, paid to get excluded from the draw. Finances the whole enterprise.
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 is happening everyday, done by thousands of people who could have stopped those deaths readily. Just they are obsessed with more wealth.
This is basically what we living in developed countries are all doing every day.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t have enough in the end of taking care of myself to feed a person elsewhere but the 1% sure as fuck do.
In my current situation (ok economically but not without worries), wouldn’t fucking take a million, nor a billion for that matter. It is not like all my consumption habits are %100 devoid of someone else’s suffering or maybe even death, indirectly. But having a vague idea about bad effects of consumption habits vs knowing it will be a direct cause of death is two completely different things imo. On the otherhand if my life or a loved one’s life depends on that money, that is a harder question and I don’t think I can really know the answer without going through it and deciding.
Ok now lets to do billionaires but 100mil and ten thousand people in a far away country dies.
I think a billion id take because you can save thousands and thousands of people
I could live with that choice. Maybe in the end I’d feel so guilty that I wouldn’t even use the money for myself at all.
Which is an interesting debate as well. How does your answer change if you can’t use that money for you or known people at all, and only “for good”. Do you feel less guilty?
As another commenter said it’s just a different version of the trolley problem
Yea I thought about that but you can not trade one person’s life for a thousand others unless that person willingly participates.
By logic this should also extend to me and my loved ones but ofcourse when it is someone closer to you whose life may be saved, you can probably no longer act objectively.
I don’t think that’s entirely true
Everyday society chooses to save a persons life and not another’s
Not explicitly but not so indirectly either
The ultra rich:
I’d do it for $10!
I’d do that for a dollar!
I’m poor and would do it for 100.
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
Actually, the ultra-rich actively spend money to cause suffering.
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.
this is the right answer, you’ve just won 10 grand!
Huh. I expected that to take longer.
You could take the money and use the money to save thousands of lives.
Show your work. How would $10,000 “save thousands of lives”?
Also, what if it’s a random person, yes, but you need to watch them die? Would that maybe make you take pause?
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.
Im the same way. If someone gave me a gun and gave me a choice to shoot myself or a stranger, I would shoot myself.
Mostly because I believe what we do matters. Many dont.
I would in a heartbeat. I would keep 5k for myself, 10k for my parents. And donate the rest to cleaning up the environment, and curing cancer/diabetes. That would save more people.
Yeah I’m not killing for money, even if I’m not the one doing the physical part of the execution
You could save way more than 1 life with $100M. Malaria nets save on average one life for every $3k donated. Child deworming doesn’t save a life per se, but you can stop a child from being permanently disabled for ~$500.
Sacrificing a person in order to help a number of people survive for a month or a year is still a terribly bad calculation if you ask me
Ok, then you are sacrificing number of people to save one person. Think of what happens in wars: people don’t even flinch at sacrificing someone
Bro, for 100 million, if you told me the button would kill me, I would press it, after writing my will first.
That is almost world-chaning money, so I would be ethicaly obligated from my perspective to press it.
$100 million brings you into a different philosophical debate. $100 million is more than enough that you could use the money to save at least a few lives
If the whole 100M was spent on saving lives, no contest.
What if you just kept back $50 for a nice meal out? Is that meal cursed?
