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

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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

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    hundred thousand? naw.

    hundred million. sure. I could actually do some good for the world with that.

    I would troll the fuckin shit out of billionaires and shitty corpofascist with every penny.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      Think about how much more you could troll them if you turned that into a billion! Besides, you’ve got bills to pay. And these taxes are obscene, that money has already been taxed a thousand times! You’ve taken on quite the burden and deserve to live a little.