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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? 

[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

  • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
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    1 day 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.