Too late, they patented GMO plants update is already out. If you try to grow the "natural" plants, they just get killed by the pesticides, also sold by the same company that sells the GMO plant seeds. You cannot legally replant the seeds, if they even produce seeds at all. They'd send their goons to threaten you.
You need to have an active contract with them, you need to pay a fee to be able to use their seeds. If you don't have an active contract with them, you don't have permission to use their seeds, they'll send their goons around to inspect your plants, if they find what looks like a crop grown from their seeds, they'll sue you, they don't care how it got there, they'll just sue you anyways. Other people around the area could also snitch on you.
Well maybe it's too boring and obvious, but... Seize the means of production, distribute equal shares of its ownership to everyone, design a democratic process to decide what should come next.
Build and buy media networks and hire the best investigative journalists. Back centre-left political parties worldwide and back unions and backstop strike funds until the whole world strikes like the French. Fund electrified mass transit, renewable energy and passivehouse construction and urban controlled-environment agriculture. Fund orphanages, school food programs and poverty alleviation and social justice causes.
I'd also start an eco-religion whose funding goes to a land trust that buys important and sensitive lands to return to wilderness and 50% can be lightly used by humans as national parks and 50% is forbidden for humans at all. Church of Gaia. The church would have monks who work as rangers/land defenders to enforce the holy order.
I would live a quiet simple life in a relatively modest but comfortable passive house on a permaculture farm. My "car" would be a selection of percheron horses and a small selection of carriage/wagons.
If we had lots of time, then it's easy. Just buy total market index funds and sit and wait. This is why vampires are usually rich. If you've lived that long, and you're not rich, you're doing something wrong.
It's a condition under which the inequality tends to grow, and one reason why it grows more when economic growth is less. The consequences that follow from it do involve instability that would do damage your investment portfolio and given the current situation could well lead to total collapse. Not today perhaps, but certainly within 500 years.
If you make a black hole next to the sun, I'm thinking the sun is gonna be the thing that orbits the black hole. Also the whole solar system is fucked. But maybe that's what you wanted with that scenario. 😅
Right? Don't go hog wild. Live slightly above your current means. Don't hoard, just... Cruise, be chill. Nobody needs millions. Nobody needs hundreds of thousands. You just need enough to do the simple things you enjoy without being excessive.
Would do the things to the house that we say we'd do if we had all the money. But not more. Get the car my husband wants, but with a loan so it's not so obvious. I don't need one. Start putting the max into the retirement accounts and pull an extra couple thousand to pay for stuff each month.
I feel like this would basically need to be laundered like crime money, if we wanted to do more with it, even good things. Would think on it, but without a way to do that I would just use it.
I had put my money into the ticket vending machine on the train platform. The ticket came out, but the machine could not cut off the paper properly. Well, not too serious, I could live with that ticket that was looking just a little bit crumpled. After several seconds, an error message appeared on the screen. Then the machine decided to give me my money back. So I had both: my ticket and my money.
I liked that so much that I tried it again, and it gave exactly the same result again.
I could probably have repeated it for hours, but then my train appeared. :-)
When I was young we had a postage stamp vending machine.
And I believe it had a bunch of stamps peeking out from under it. And also tried to extract some more.
Took as many as I could, which ended in about 5 or 10€ in postage stamps :)
I’d spawn a few million euros for myself and never worry about finances ever again. Ruining the world economy with hyperinflation isn’t in my interest, nor would I have any use for more money than that.
The thing about hyperinflation is that it's not a "real" force that occurs simply because there is more money in the system. It entirely comes from sociological reactions to there being more money in the system, mainly wage growth and capitalists reacting to that with price growth. So without tipping your hand, you could abuse the economic system quite a lot without sparking an inflationary crisis. Certain state actors, like North Korea and China, have counterfeited US dollars without causing any inflationary issues.
Outbid the car/weapons lobby and errect an eco-social government >:) Watch out, we'll support your purchase of an electric car and reinstate the Vegane Wurst!!!!
You could create hyper inflation destroying modern currencies causing them to have to pay your assassins in gold, which would be a major pain in the ass if you didn't already physically own gold.
I feel like they'd kill me long before that. Unless they figure out that I have an infinite money glitch, then I'd just get kidnapped and tortured till I spill how I do it.
I think it matters how paranoid you become and how much effort you put into risk aversion. If you buy a fortress and almost never leave, you are probably pretty safe. If you just go about living the same way you were, you will probably be offd on the street.
I mean, if a person with a normal budget purchases a fortress the IRS (Or their country's equivalent) is gonna notice. Pretty much any government in existence isn't gonna want someone with the power to single handedly ruin any economy to exist.
The prompt just says "money" so you could use any and all currencies. You almost certainly would touch your own countries currency last, so you have something easy to trade with.
Also how good is the IRS at taxing the rich already?
Depends on if it's generational wealth, or a normal person getting rich. But yeah, the best accounting firm money can buy would probably take care of that problem pretty quickly.
Use it sparingly, to avoid causing massive inflation as everyone realises the money supply is fucked.
Look, I like chaos as much as the next guy, but blowing up the entire global economy is a step too far. And I could do a lot of good with a few billion that I can actually spend.
Unless this means infinite actual value instead of infinite imaginary currency, in which case I guess I ascend everyone and everything into some kind of godhood, because that implies I can.
Start some businesses that could accept the money without raising eyebrows regarding revenue streams. Eventually quit my job to focus on these businesses.
Mass duplicate rare earth metals at a rate that would crash economies and make white goods and alternative energy sources actually cheaper than fossil fuels.
Then while the world's having an absolute fit trying to recover from that, I'd find a way to duplicate expensive and hard to make medicine till it's functionally worth less than the packaging it comes in.
You didn't mention mining, you mentioned making alternate energy sources cheaper than fossil fuels. Considering the topic of the thread, I also didn't connect that you might of meant the environmental costs.
fund research in high density cities with good public trans. don't pay high but comes with housing, education, food, and other various perks. The housing and research institutes will have no parking.
Fund my totally nonfictional company by commissioning professional online artists like Panda Paco or Reva the Scarf to make official portraits of all of us totally real people, starting with me, the head beaver.
this already exists, it's called the stock market. largest international casino ever conceived, learn the rules and it's all the $ you could possibly want (scaling above the 1 million mark gets tricky, admittedly)
Not ask the internet what I would do – revealing that I’ve found an infinite money glitch.
With a duplication glitch, wouldn't both technically be the same chick?
Twins is nice, duplicates is a trip
Shut up and tell absofukinglutely no one about it, then I would work out a way to secretly siphon it off to people I like.
One guy already found this hack and created a shitty “AI” company
Crypto....
I'd spawn a million tons of cash above every single capitalist's house and let them be suffocated to death by the thing they love most
Tell no one, live in my tiny house, buy high quality jeans, travel a lot by myself, get a library's worth of books, and make art/video games all day.
Plant crops, sell crops and hold some back to plant next year’s crop.
Real-life infinite money/duplication glitch.
That sounds suspiciously like farm work.
do it before they broke farms in next update
Too late, they patented GMO plants update is already out. If you try to grow the "natural" plants, they just get killed by the pesticides, also sold by the same company that sells the GMO plant seeds. You cannot legally replant the seeds, if they even produce seeds at all. They'd send their goons to threaten you.
Relevant Mitchell and Webb comedy sketch.
Never mind the cost of land and labour/equipment, they're not important. /s
Well maybe it's too boring and obvious, but... Seize the means of production, distribute equal shares of its ownership to everyone, design a democratic process to decide what should come next.
Build and buy media networks and hire the best investigative journalists. Back centre-left political parties worldwide and back unions and backstop strike funds until the whole world strikes like the French. Fund electrified mass transit, renewable energy and passivehouse construction and urban controlled-environment agriculture. Fund orphanages, school food programs and poverty alleviation and social justice causes.
I'd also start an eco-religion whose funding goes to a land trust that buys important and sensitive lands to return to wilderness and 50% can be lightly used by humans as national parks and 50% is forbidden for humans at all. Church of Gaia. The church would have monks who work as rangers/land defenders to enforce the holy order.
I would live a quiet simple life in a relatively modest but comfortable passive house on a permaculture farm. My "car" would be a selection of percheron horses and a small selection of carriage/wagons.
I want to live in your world.
Sign me the fuck up as well, Solarpunks unite!
If we had lots of time, then it's easy. Just buy total market index funds and sit and wait. This is why vampires are usually rich. If you've lived that long, and you're not rich, you're doing something wrong.
$2 at 7% a year for 50 years = $58.91
$2 at 7% a year, for 500 years = $1,505,863.24
The power of compound interest!
This pyramid scheme is unlikely to last for 500 years.
It's not a pyramid scheme. It's compound interest and has been known about since ancient times (and worked since then too).
Compound interest is just math.
So is r > g
And? That thesis has nothing to do with collapse, nor a pyramid scheme. It's just explaining the wealth inequality.
It's a condition under which the inequality tends to grow, and one reason why it grows more when economic growth is less. The consequences that follow from it do involve instability that would do damage your investment portfolio and given the current situation could well lead to total collapse. Not today perhaps, but certainly within 500 years.
My wallet never would be empty, but just enough to buy a drink or a meal when need it
Continue doing what I love without having to worry about money being an issue
Fuck that guy
If you make a black hole next to the sun, I'm thinking the sun is gonna be the thing that orbits the black hole. Also the whole solar system is fucked. But maybe that's what you wanted with that scenario. 😅
Its funny how some people are willing to sacrifice the whole solar system and themselves just to fuck that one guy
Must be a really hot guy
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I guess that's the implied assumption here, that there's nothing "squeezing" a celestial body but its own gravitation. 😛
People have found these and gotten arrested over exploiting them, let's be real
You don't hear about the ones that haven't been caught yet
Right? Don't go hog wild. Live slightly above your current means. Don't hoard, just... Cruise, be chill. Nobody needs millions. Nobody needs hundreds of thousands. You just need enough to do the simple things you enjoy without being excessive.
Only the small fry. Bezos, Musk, Saud royal family and many more are still at large
Tell no one, obscure monetary transactions to the best of my ability, and fund global communism
Really? Keep it so quiet.
Would do the things to the house that we say we'd do if we had all the money. But not more. Get the car my husband wants, but with a loan so it's not so obvious. I don't need one. Start putting the max into the retirement accounts and pull an extra couple thousand to pay for stuff each month.
I feel like this would basically need to be laundered like crime money, if we wanted to do more with it, even good things. Would think on it, but without a way to do that I would just use it.
Duplicate money.
Yes, it has happened to me.
I had put my money into the ticket vending machine on the train platform. The ticket came out, but the machine could not cut off the paper properly. Well, not too serious, I could live with that ticket that was looking just a little bit crumpled. After several seconds, an error message appeared on the screen. Then the machine decided to give me my money back. So I had both: my ticket and my money.
I liked that so much that I tried it again, and it gave exactly the same result again.
I could probably have repeated it for hours, but then my train appeared. :-)
When I was young we had a postage stamp vending machine.
And I believe it had a bunch of stamps peeking out from under it. And also tried to extract some more. Took as many as I could, which ended in about 5 or 10€ in postage stamps :)
Everyone's kickstarter will meet every goal. All of them. Even the bad ideas. 😈
Username checks out and I'd like to express my support for this :)
I'd sell an e-book about this glitch on Amazon and generate passive income!
I’d spawn a few million euros for myself and never worry about finances ever again. Ruining the world economy with hyperinflation isn’t in my interest, nor would I have any use for more money than that.
The thing about hyperinflation is that it's not a "real" force that occurs simply because there is more money in the system. It entirely comes from sociological reactions to there being more money in the system, mainly wage growth and capitalists reacting to that with price growth. So without tipping your hand, you could abuse the economic system quite a lot without sparking an inflationary crisis. Certain state actors, like North Korea and China, have counterfeited US dollars without causing any inflationary issues.
Abuse the fuck out of it so I could right as many wrongs as I could with said money.
If I had infinite money, I would create Medicare for All as a private company.
It'd be like shooting all the healthcare CEOs at once.
Immediately not trust it and assume I'm too stupid or ignorant to see what the flaw in the system is.
And next I'd be worried that, flaw or not, the authorities might find out about it, because that would almost certainly not end well.
Even if there's truly a way to get something for nothing, someone else will find a way to take it away.
See if I can manufacture a world-wide property value crash
Outbid the car/weapons lobby and errect an eco-social government >:) Watch out, we'll support your purchase of an electric car and reinstate the Vegane Wurst!!!!
You'd better start with some pretty hefty security for yourself cause your have assassination attempts pretty quickly.
Welp... care for a job as security advisor?
You could create hyper inflation destroying modern currencies causing them to have to pay your assassins in gold, which would be a major pain in the ass if you didn't already physically own gold.
I feel like they'd kill me long before that. Unless they figure out that I have an infinite money glitch, then I'd just get kidnapped and tortured till I spill how I do it.
I think it matters how paranoid you become and how much effort you put into risk aversion. If you buy a fortress and almost never leave, you are probably pretty safe. If you just go about living the same way you were, you will probably be offd on the street.
I mean, if a person with a normal budget purchases a fortress the IRS (Or their country's equivalent) is gonna notice. Pretty much any government in existence isn't gonna want someone with the power to single handedly ruin any economy to exist.
Not if they are smart and hire an accountant.
The prompt just says "money" so you could use any and all currencies. You almost certainly would touch your own countries currency last, so you have something easy to trade with.
Also how good is the IRS at taxing the rich already?
Depends on if it's generational wealth, or a normal person getting rich. But yeah, the best accounting firm money can buy would probably take care of that problem pretty quickly.
Hack the planet!
donate to wikipedia and fsf first and then get a beer
Use it.
Keep it to myself and fund projects I like (under the assumption that I could get a million € per h for example)
Probably cause mass inflation and a return to bartering.
Use it sparingly, to avoid causing massive inflation as everyone realises the money supply is fucked.
Look, I like chaos as much as the next guy, but blowing up the entire global economy is a step too far. And I could do a lot of good with a few billion that I can actually spend.
Unless this means infinite actual value instead of infinite imaginary currency, in which case I guess I ascend everyone and everything into some kind of godhood, because that implies I can.
House with a yard. One of the rooms is a sensory room. Quietly donate to causes of marginalized folks. Continue going to work.
I'm assuming this is extralegal cash.
Start some businesses that could accept the money without raising eyebrows regarding revenue streams. Eventually quit my job to focus on these businesses.
Start a church. Cash donations, tax free.
Something terrible.
Mass duplicate rare earth metals at a rate that would crash economies and make white goods and alternative energy sources actually cheaper than fossil fuels.
Then while the world's having an absolute fit trying to recover from that, I'd find a way to duplicate expensive and hard to make medicine till it's functionally worth less than the packaging it comes in.
The thing is, alternative energy sources already are cheaper than fossil fuels :(
Cadmium, lithium and nickel mining are not cheaper than oil extraction and are more harmful to the environment.
You didn't mention mining, you mentioned making alternate energy sources cheaper than fossil fuels. Considering the topic of the thread, I also didn't connect that you might of meant the environmental costs.
I did mention the rare earth metals first.
Okay, but I was pointing out how alternate energy choices are already cheaper than fossil fuels? Which is a fact...
If you take into account harvesting and application, they are not. They are cheaper(in certain countries) on the consumer end. But that's rare.
Wait, are you trying to make the argument that capitalists sell things for below cost???
No, they are cheaper at a grid-level power source level.
Keep it a secret, give some money to those in need, and go see as many movies as I want without worrying about money
fund research in high density cities with good public trans. don't pay high but comes with housing, education, food, and other various perks. The housing and research institutes will have no parking.
Sounds cliche but I would have a massive animal sanctuary. Our domesticated animals shouldn't be left alone. They need us as much as we need them.
Get a peaceful night of sleep.
Buy name brand meds.
Crash the rouble.
Just glitch infinite amounts of it and give it to everyone
Honestly Russia's central bank is already on it, it's just taking a moment to kick in.
Have existential crisis.
I guess I might buy a new fishin' pole'na couple'a lures and go fishin'.
Fund my totally nonfictional company by commissioning professional online artists like Panda Paco or Reva the Scarf to make official portraits of all of us totally real people, starting with me, the head beaver.
That's probably the first thing I'd wanna do.
this already exists, it's called the stock market. largest international casino ever conceived, learn the rules and it's all the $ you could possibly want (scaling above the 1 million mark gets tricky, admittedly)
Found and fully fund an activist think tank aimed exclusively at moving the Overton window left.
This is kinda the plot of Hudson Hawk.
Use the hell out of it.