Only catch, you can’t use your wealth to fix th system, donate it or give it away. It’d only be for yourself.
What’s to even contemplate here? Give me the money and the knowledge. I already know what it’s like being poor and stupid.
Well I’m already acutely aware of the bad shit, so might as well be filthy fucking rich too
Yeah, that was my second thought after ‘hell yeah, I’d have the means to maybe make a big difference!’ But the rules don’t allow that. :( so same as now, only rich af then
Who knows.
Maybe all the current rich people already got this deal.
So if they can’t impeove anything, why not improve their own situation? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯We can’t use our hundreds of millions to fix the system, but we can use them to create a new competing system founded on the principles of mutual aid. I’m gonna do that.
Hell yea!
Already am aware of some of it.
How much worse can it really get?
Epstein is already in most of everyones mind.
Is there nothing else?
So the real question is, do you want a lot of money, or less money but more than what you’ve got now, plus a memory wipe?
More so do you want money and knowing how fucked the world is, including things that haven’t come to light yet or blissfully ignorant happiness.
Put me down in the hundreds of millions column.
I’m poor yet i know all the shit going on. Give me my damn money
Joke’s on you, I’m meager and aware so either way would be an improvement!
Here I am, broke and knowledgeable. Worst of both worlds.
Sadly aren’t most of us. I’m curious if people would rather be rich and burdened, or poor and blissfully unaware.
Rich and can do something about it with the money and power it brings.
Yup. If I had better things to do, would I be posting here?
I’ll take the hundreds of millions of dollars … seems there is not much of a catch.
Sounds like a consequence free hundred million dollars since you should already be acutely informed as to the horrible happenings of the world
Yes but which is worth more. The money and knowledge, or ignorance and happiness?
There is no true “ignorant but happy” in this scenario because your life is still affected by society and the world even if you aren’t aware of it directly.
I can go buy myself plenty of happiness and it’s not like being ignorant automatically means you’re gonna be happy
Being ignorant won’t protect you from the world knocking on your door and tossing you in a van for deportation or worse
I’ll take the money every time
What’s even the point of option 1 if you can’t do anything with the money to make the world a better place? I mean, you could be aware and still be amorally, sociopathically self-interested like many rich and influential people from policy makers to asset fund managers and CEOs and simply give no fucks, but it’s rare to be such a monster and I hope there are none on my Lemmy, lol. Between ignorance and complete awareness but being unable to help whilst being capable of doing so and willing too because you’re not a monster, the choice is obvious.
Interesting to see how many others would take the money.
I’ll take the money and use it to make things easier for My loved ones. Then I’ll start making as many new loved ones as I can and helping those people. I’m not allowed to use My wealth to fix the system, but I can make a new system based on mutual aid. I can make things a little easier for people.
I don’t get the stipulation. Using it to help community and fix the system would be using it for my own interest. I would be doing that for myself because i selfishly want to live in a better world. Furthermore, that would require i don’t pay taxes so it’s kind of a liability unless it’s permanently locked away in investments.
Maybe i keep that money invested to back debt so i can borrow and give the banks money away. 🤷
you can tell all these “would you rather be poor or rich with a minor inconvenience”-questions come from rich people, fucking give me the $ asshole. being poor fucking sucks, living 1 paycheck away from destitution literally warps your mind. your in survival mode barely capable of looking into/considering the future
I don’t understand why anyone would pick the second option it’s bad in two ways.
I have always been “pro redpill” in The Matrix way of seeing things: I would rather be swimming in the truth and being miserable for it, than blissfully ignorant.
Now a good chunk of it comes down to my neurodivergent obsession with facts and evidence, in that when I argue it is to dispel misinformation and disinformation rather than arguing against anyone else specifically. I seek to maximize the acceptance of reality. I find ignorance and the rejection of reality to be the greatest of evils, in that it leads people astray from the logically and ethically correct path.
So even ignoring wealth entirely, I would always reach for knowledge and the truth even if it directly harms my mental health. Nothing can be gained from ignoring facts, the danger there is even greater than facing them.
Nearly all of us are currently experiencing the worst possible compromise of that premise.
