Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    It has to be a solution that benefits both parties, but I also recognize that one party is giving up something tangible.

    They have to be compensated in some real way. That is why I propose make a wish for the ultra wealthy. We pick an obscenely rich person, take 99% of what they own, and give them the one thing money can’t buy. A real wish that can be anything humans can reasonably provide.

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      1 hour ago

      The problem is that the money comes with power. They already get something just by owning it.

      If a billionaire asks you to be their partner for life and to love them, as the one thing that money can’t buy, would you?

      I think if people create a community that billionaires want to join in exchange for their money, wouldn’t that community already be so thriving that they don’t need the money? *

      And if the community needs the money, what could offload the guilt that comes with the money? The community would become the billionaire.

      * strange that people don’t try to do that, even without money.