[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

  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    78·
    2 days ago

    Honestly, a billionaire would probably hire people to push the button for them.

    They’d minimize explaining what the button does, and then pay them like $100,000 a year to push the button 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 days ago

      Why would they get payed that much? this is unskilled labor, they get minimum wage.

      That, or they hire an undocumented immigrant for even less. Extra bonus because they can’t read the sign that explains the killing thing.

      • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          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.

    • Orygin@sh.itjust.works
      24·
      2 days ago

      Exactly, just create the conditions and system so that not pushing the button results in poverty and people will line up to push it

    • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip
      14·
      2 days ago

      One person would get through 1 billion people in 30 years. It would take 120 people pushing it every second of the year to make it a 50/50 that billionaire is killed.