[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

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    22 hours ago

    such a low probability overall you probably up on the whole deal if you use that money to help other people.

    Depends a lot on how you’re helping them and what you’re doing with the rest. If you’re spending like a typical American (or Canadian) you’re doing a lot of environmental damage with your day-to-day life so you’re killing people incrementally with that lifestyle.