[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
I was basing it off of an estimated $15 an hour minimum wage, which is pretty common in a couple of states, where there tend to be more billionaires.
15 times 24 times 365 is like $130,000.
Oh no, that’s what salaries are for. That way they pay them for 8 hours of work still.
This should be celebrated though, because they get to go home early if all the work gets done.*
.*The work is done when the billionaire has enough ** money.
**Enough is defined as every particle of matter being converted into wealth for the god emperor formally known as billionaire.