If your lifes goal was to make life better for as many people as possible how would you go about achieving it, assuming you could get start-up capital for your project?
Youre going to need to start a cult and get disciples. Even with some start up capital they can out bid you so your only hope is religious indoctrination.
But first make sure their will & estate stipulates that their wealth will be evenly distributed among every deserving needful hardworking person on the planet, right?
No need. If they have heirs, the wealth will be split. If the resulting heirs still have enough to be billionaires apply the solution recursively. Eventually it will be diluted enough that nobody is a billionaire.
If there are no heirs it usually goes to the state (depending on jurisdiction).
Since I can't see the limit on the start-up capital, I remember UN making a plan to end world hunger for measly 6.6B$ after Elon said he'd sell stocks and fund it if they did so. So yeah, I'd fund that.
Maybe it's just the gourmand in me, but this is also my priority. It seems like we should be able to ensure no human goes hungry. Production isn't an issue, it's distribution/logistics.
I would be very cautious with min-maxing charity. It's a path to Effective Altruism logic, which is a trap that lead to some weird trolley-problem-like eugenic-happy-pseudorationale. Stay away.
In a lifetime timeline I think that tremendous positive change could be created by teaching children recognize they emotion and regulate them. It have proven impact on... Well basicly everything. From addiction,/suicide/self-harm preventrion to things like akademic/work/artistic/cognitive performance or self-motivation or overall level of happiness. There is no area that wouldn't improve and all those amazing people would generate amazing outcomes.
in shorter horizon, and for people who already are adults.. And I think about it a lot, we should create an "audio-first learning platform". Start with open source lectures and quality courses. Maybe ad an app that show you visuals or test only when absolutely necessary. But we need something that will easli slow you to learn WHILE, you are doing meaningless task that you need to, do to survive. Something that you can use while doing house chores, work on assembly line or as delivery person, something you can listen discreetly in your non-suportive envirement... Podcast and audio books are on massive raise. E-learnign was on a.massive raise (until they all went public or private and turn to shit in a chase for profit). There is a need and there is a demand. Technologicaly it's very achievable. And "any phone and any headphones" is as small entry threshold one could ask for. We have the ships that could get as to the stars allredy, we just need the crew.
eddit: or help Hank an John eliminate tuberculosis completely - its fucking embaresing to have those.
At this point, start an media company. Call it Working Class Propaganda and publish stories that I think we should be talking about instead of what is out there. Explain how the rich are controlling the echo chambers and the topics of conversations so we can't ever get to solving real problems. Too many people get rich by us not solving these problems. How much money is spent on anti-union, anti-public transportation, or anti-universal health care? All that money is always spent by companies getting rich off the current system.
I have no clue how to explain some concepts in an easy manner, but if I had enough start up I would hire many others. Promise to never be AI articles or pictures. Explain open source and the problems of having a walled garden. Explain Israel having a honey pot setup for pedos and now they have blackmail on many American and EU elites.
give them all a platform they can dish on - propublica, 404, wired's great reporting, jacobin, mother jones, dailykos - there's a fuckton of fantastic journalism on the left that goes nowhere because we don't have a fox-level advocate echoing it - msnbc is at best a milquetoast echo of a lefty leaning platform.
Life, and struggle, operate differently in hundreds of areas around even a single large country. Even individual towns might have ideas for different programs that would have varying levels of benefit, and operate much smoother through voluntary buy in.
I’d be open to fining / taxing the ultra rich, I’d just want to remember it’s a means to an end. We don’t improve people’s lives by “taking down the haves” alone.
Few options that don't necessarily even require a whole lot of capital (and I'm already doing one of these):
Work in finance (and stay educated to be good at it), donate as much as possible to well researched charities.
Work in healthcare, volunteer your services where they'd be otherwise unavailable.
Build a community with certain values and offer life-enhancing (basically odd jobs) services freely to people outside the community. Or just offer community, just be transparent about the rules and expectations (don't be a cult).
Buy up huge tracts of Amazon forest real estate and carpetbomb it with anti-personnel mines so that nobody can go there, it can't be illegally logged, and poachers won't dare go there.
Start-up capital means investors, investors mean expecting a return on investment, that means you must make sure that people you help will pay you back more than you spent helping them.
The concept in itself is contradictory. If you want to help someone, the easiest thing is not to expect anything in return for the help.
Probably get as many conservatives out of power as possible. Once they're gone we can work on climate change, better electoral systems, removing the evils of capitalism, and so on.
Depending on the maximum budget, I would create a foundation with the single purpose of promoting & integrating European cooperatives and unions, with a big focus on educating everyone on the importance of democracy specially in the management of resources.
My hope is that it could foster a strong enough grassroots movement to achieve the goal of a radically democratic society in some of the most "advanced" economies.
So you'll end up with a may more passive humanity?
This will probably be impopular, but olease hear me out.
Greed in and of itself is a huge driving force, throwing that away is stupid, channelling it for good is way more smart.
Exessive material greed is evil.
Greed is often related to status as much as it is related to wealth, so what does that mean?
Give people status, rather than pure wealth.
Set up a society where wealth is seen as decadent, but people can gain a lot of status by doing good things.
Embrace naming building, blocks, public facilities, parks and stuff like that after good people, you are a researcher, developing a cure for Aids, you get a medical university named after you, stuff like that.
Embrace one of our most powerful motivational forces, don't just throw it out.
Its a long list but Id say it basically all leads to Modern technology - by which we can say is partially responsible for modern medicine. Im not sure greed is required for that or will it over all be super beneficial, considering climate change. At least, we have no problem harnessing it and we already do much of what you say. I think we just need to look at what is greed and what is actually mental illness.
Its greedy to want more money than you could ever need. Its mentally ill to want the biggest money number because its super big.
More than that though. When it comes to hoarding there is an emotional attachment. Kind of like when a dog is food aggressive. Hoarders will lash out if you threaten their hoard. Now you might think this makes sense if someone is threatening to take your money but if that money adds no intrinsic value to your personal being its just the same as you freaking out some one took your "treasures" (actual garbage) from you house and disposed of it properly.
Start or join a local cooperative that does something you're passionate about. Give members of your community stable and meaningful employment with real ownership, autonomy and decision-making.
i'm dirt poor but I feel like ive already has quite an impact on a reasonable number of people. I won't take about the specific things that i get up to but community work can reach a lot of people if you do it right. start a food not bombs, open an autonomous squatted homeless shelter
As a single person it would be really difficult unless the start up capital is very high.
Personally I would think, building a company in a developing country fucusing on creating infrastructure for sustainable economy and giving people equal chanced would be great. (Would only work in a vacuum tho, since many imperialistic forces are still employed in many developing nations keeping them dependend on developed nations).
assuming i somehow aquired Too Much Money (the centi-billionaire sorta Too Much Money), i'd give the money to land back projects, reforestation/rewilding projects, and native food forest projects, globally.
that probably still wouldn't use up much of a centi-billionaire's money, but i genuinely cannot grasp how much money that is.. maybe get involved in politics & make it an international crime to charge money for anything that's a human right, like housing/food/water 🤔
Focus the capital on research that's already going into creating matter assemblers. They use light to form matter. This creates food and objects at whatever scale the machines can be created at. No more hunger or digging material out of the Earth bc light is free from the sun. No more shipping costs. Construction happens on the spot. And since the machines can dissolve matter too, there's your recycling and cleaning up the landfills and oceans.
I would start buying plots of land in food deserts, demolish the buildings there and start up communal gardening hubs. Actually, there are a ton of things that could be done to areas like this to make them walkable and liveable — but gardening hubs first sounds good.
I would build decentralized platforms that secure the basic needs of a civilization.
decentralized world-scale messaging
decentralized world-scale data transfers (video, images, etc)
on top of these systems:
anon voting with attestations
reimplementation of all popular social media
distributed gov functionality (political parties as a service)
Basically I would implement core functionality as a service. Everyone deserves a say in what they consume, in how they're governed. I would codify all of that, open source it, and foster a culture of continuous improvement for all systems of governance.
This pattern, if done correctly, could persist for generations to come, and redefine our relationship with governance, exchange, and freedom. The objective would be to most accurately capture the will of the governed, with minimal disruption or life intrusion.
Such a mechanism would be infectious. Eventually, every population in the world would adopt it or some form of it.
This would make the world better for everyone, in every industry, on every level.
It would be something... Violent. Can't change the system to be better by using the system. Gotta destroy it first, and there will be... so much resistance against that.
But to make life better for the majority, action will have to be covert. None of that terrorist shit with shock, awe, destruction of public spaces, and the loss of civilian life. No names, no titles, no spotlight, no ego.
Making life better for the majority will also be a lifetime career, and the resulting world that will hopefully be built from such action would not be for me to live in, but future generations.
I say all this as some random guy on the Internet, but... One can dream. For now I'll settle with my job as an active trade unionist.
Gotta destroy it first, and there will be… so much resistance against that.
yeah some weirdos just love running water and electricity so grandma doesn't cook / suffocate.
look, I get it, you can't see any way to make things better, but you only have to smell bodies once or go a week without water coming from the faucet to start appreciating that perhaps.... destroy it all first isn't the best plan we can come up with.
What's a reasonable amount of start-up capital? I wonder if you could make a big difference in US politics if you had like 50 billion USD and invested it all into promoting progressive (i.e. left of the DNC-mainstream) politicians and policy. Making sure that the USA don't fuck everyone else's shit up would make a huge difference.
Like, how much money are all the fascist billionaires actually investing into politics?
Might be a little late for this approach, though, at this point I'd expect that three letter agencies would just assassinate me if I started that now.
Musks pay packages is enough to do that and still have leftover.
Use any and all publicly to talk about taxing the super rich. Reminding that tesla is only giving the end world hunger amount of money in projection of making 800 times as much.
I'd research an internet node that could be raised with a couple of bake sales and deployed anywhere with the objective of providing free high-speed wifi to the populated world.
After a roll-out to get every point on the globe covered (that has people near it), we'd work on an upgrade campaign to make sure it is redundant and robust and never shuts down no matter how angry the local dictators are.
The people have advantage when crowdsourcing repairs and reroutes around censorship and responding to DDOS so this should usher in a wave of democratic (lower case) movements across the world. Movements towards public services and benefits will likely follow, according to CIA analysts who study such things.
I would start a workers' revolution, then imprison anyone opposed to the revolution, then imprison anyone who was for the revolution but not in the right way, and then crush all remaining dissent and hand-pick my successor.
Establish a representative council from people all over the world like this project to decide what projects would be usefull. An undefined amount of start-up capital is too much power for a single person to handle responsible so I'd delegate those decisions to as many different people as possible.
How much would it costs to send all of the world's politicians to the titanic using ocean gate subs? Just suggesting they discuss their disagreements down there.
I would produce a pill that rewires the human brain to focus on the good events occurring around them and in the world.
Far too many of our societal problems are due to a significant portion of the world focusing on negative events. How many channel 9 news events are focused on car crashes or shootings? How much social media profit is based upon rage bait? How many hours wasted scrolling on insta fantasizing about being anyone but your own self?
We have within ourselves already great capacity to do great things, we just need to unchain that potential.
There are negative events in the world that have significant impact on people's lives, with worsening effects the longer it is ignored.
The pill you're proposing would probably get massively endorsed by the wrong people, as it would make whole populations into happy complacent little workers for those at the top.
I'd start hiring hitmen to kill every billionaire in the world.
Youre going to need to start a cult and get disciples. Even with some start up capital they can out bid you so your only hope is religious indoctrination.
Not a bad idea
But first make sure their will & estate stipulates that their wealth will be evenly distributed among every deserving needful hardworking person on the planet, right?
Why? Just imply sending another hitman! I think the billionaires would find themselves feeling very altruistic eventually.
I don't. They'd send their own hitmen.
No... They'd just scale up security
No need. If they have heirs, the wealth will be split. If the resulting heirs still have enough to be billionaires apply the solution recursively. Eventually it will be diluted enough that nobody is a billionaire.
If there are no heirs it usually goes to the state (depending on jurisdiction).
Plumbing is a noble trade.
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Someone secure John Leguizamo he is our greatest asset.
man a young John Leguizamo would totally rock that role playing Luigi M.
Since I can't see the limit on the start-up capital, I remember UN making a plan to end world hunger for measly 6.6B$ after Elon said he'd sell stocks and fund it if they did so. So yeah, I'd fund that.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/18/tech/elon-musk-world-hunger-wfp-donation/
Maybe it's just the gourmand in me, but this is also my priority. It seems like we should be able to ensure no human goes hungry. Production isn't an issue, it's distribution/logistics.
It's a capitalism and "free market" issue and always has been.
It's a lot harder to manufacture consent or invent conflict if people can't be threatened by starvation.
Seed sharing beats game theory.
Everyone gets a bag of werther's original.
For every 100 that lives are marginally better there is 1 who absolutely destroys their teeth biting into one.
Then there is that one kid who used them to poison an entire medical staff and lives on to be a serial killer.
My life would be a lot better so it would make up for the rest.
Someone get this anon a bag of werthers already.
Oh no thank you, they're not really my thing.
I would be very cautious with min-maxing charity. It's a path to Effective Altruism logic, which is a trap that lead to some weird trolley-problem-like eugenic-happy-pseudorationale. Stay away.
In a lifetime timeline I think that tremendous positive change could be created by teaching children recognize they emotion and regulate them. It have proven impact on... Well basicly everything. From addiction,/suicide/self-harm preventrion to things like akademic/work/artistic/cognitive performance or self-motivation or overall level of happiness. There is no area that wouldn't improve and all those amazing people would generate amazing outcomes.
in shorter horizon, and for people who already are adults.. And I think about it a lot, we should create an "audio-first learning platform". Start with open source lectures and quality courses. Maybe ad an app that show you visuals or test only when absolutely necessary. But we need something that will easli slow you to learn WHILE, you are doing meaningless task that you need to, do to survive. Something that you can use while doing house chores, work on assembly line or as delivery person, something you can listen discreetly in your non-suportive envirement... Podcast and audio books are on massive raise. E-learnign was on a.massive raise (until they all went public or private and turn to shit in a chase for profit). There is a need and there is a demand. Technologicaly it's very achievable. And "any phone and any headphones" is as small entry threshold one could ask for. We have the ships that could get as to the stars allredy, we just need the crew.
eddit: or help Hank an John eliminate tuberculosis completely - its fucking embaresing to have those.
At this point, start an media company. Call it Working Class Propaganda and publish stories that I think we should be talking about instead of what is out there. Explain how the rich are controlling the echo chambers and the topics of conversations so we can't ever get to solving real problems. Too many people get rich by us not solving these problems. How much money is spent on anti-union, anti-public transportation, or anti-universal health care? All that money is always spent by companies getting rich off the current system.
I have no clue how to explain some concepts in an easy manner, but if I had enough start up I would hire many others. Promise to never be AI articles or pictures. Explain open source and the problems of having a walled garden. Explain Israel having a honey pot setup for pedos and now they have blackmail on many American and EU elites.
Might it just be better to grow ProPublica, 404media, or both instead of starting a new one?
Yes that would be a good network to plug into, but I think the more the better.
give them all a platform they can dish on - propublica, 404, wired's great reporting, jacobin, mother jones, dailykos - there's a fuckton of fantastic journalism on the left that goes nowhere because we don't have a fox-level advocate echoing it - msnbc is at best a milquetoast echo of a lefty leaning platform.
Wonder what a person who just got a 1T paycheck would do to try to redeem his sorry. talentless ass in the eyes of the general public.
Probably self flying helicopters that three people can afford.
Possibly a more humble answer: Ask.
Life, and struggle, operate differently in hundreds of areas around even a single large country. Even individual towns might have ideas for different programs that would have varying levels of benefit, and operate much smoother through voluntary buy in.
I’d be open to fining / taxing the ultra rich, I’d just want to remember it’s a means to an end. We don’t improve people’s lives by “taking down the haves” alone.
Few options that don't necessarily even require a whole lot of capital (and I'm already doing one of these):
Work in finance (and stay educated to be good at it), donate as much as possible to well researched charities.
Work in healthcare, volunteer your services where they'd be otherwise unavailable.
Build a community with certain values and offer life-enhancing (basically odd jobs) services freely to people outside the community. Or just offer community, just be transparent about the rules and expectations (don't be a cult).
Aw, geez...
Buy up huge tracts of Amazon forest real estate and carpetbomb it with anti-personnel mines so that nobody can go there, it can't be illegally logged, and poachers won't dare go there.
Yes this plan has flaws but can be tweaked.
There's people living there though. Aboriginals.
Look, people die all the time.
Invest in unionization campaigns and non-profit independent media projects.
To start, raise the income tax rates for corporations and high earners in the USA back to the levels before Reagan.
Eliminate the veto powers afforded certain countries in the UN.
Remove the bs cultural stigma against socialism in some countries.
Enforce international law and prosecute crimes against humanity.
Start-up capital means investors, investors mean expecting a return on investment, that means you must make sure that people you help will pay you back more than you spent helping them.
The concept in itself is contradictory. If you want to help someone, the easiest thing is not to expect anything in return for the help.
Its a hypothetical, let's assume the capital comes from a charitable source.
Education - the only way to enable people to help themselves long term. And enable them to excell in a specific field they have interest in.
Probably get as many conservatives out of power as possible. Once they're gone we can work on climate change, better electoral systems, removing the evils of capitalism, and so on.
Finance the building of social housing.
It creates jobs, fuels industries and finally we'd get affordable housing.
Depending on the maximum budget, I would create a foundation with the single purpose of promoting & integrating European cooperatives and unions, with a big focus on educating everyone on the importance of democracy specially in the management of resources.
My hope is that it could foster a strong enough grassroots movement to achieve the goal of a radically democratic society in some of the most "advanced" economies.
Hire a militia to kidnap/vanish all billionaires.
a completely hypothetical thought exercise of course....
every time one gets offed, pay off a hundred teachers' school loans.
it'll accelerate fantastically.
Figure out the genetics responsible for greed and then engineer an infectious disease to edit that shit out of the human genome for good.
We all have those genes to some degree. In a non-obsessive level, it's a survival tactic. Please do not alter my genome without my consent.
Oops, let me just put this back. You'll never notice.
So you'll end up with a may more passive humanity?
This will probably be impopular, but olease hear me out.
Greed in and of itself is a huge driving force, throwing that away is stupid, channelling it for good is way more smart.
Exessive material greed is evil.
Greed is often related to status as much as it is related to wealth, so what does that mean?
Give people status, rather than pure wealth.
Set up a society where wealth is seen as decadent, but people can gain a lot of status by doing good things.
Embrace naming building, blocks, public facilities, parks and stuff like that after good people, you are a researcher, developing a cure for Aids, you get a medical university named after you, stuff like that.
Embrace one of our most powerful motivational forces, don't just throw it out.
Just trying to think of what greed got us.
Its a long list but Id say it basically all leads to Modern technology - by which we can say is partially responsible for modern medicine. Im not sure greed is required for that or will it over all be super beneficial, considering climate change. At least, we have no problem harnessing it and we already do much of what you say. I think we just need to look at what is greed and what is actually mental illness.
Its greedy to want more money than you could ever need. Its mentally ill to want the biggest money number because its super big.
More than that though. When it comes to hoarding there is an emotional attachment. Kind of like when a dog is food aggressive. Hoarders will lash out if you threaten their hoard. Now you might think this makes sense if someone is threatening to take your money but if that money adds no intrinsic value to your personal being its just the same as you freaking out some one took your "treasures" (actual garbage) from you house and disposed of it properly.
Being extra nice and considerate to everyone I meet is free.
Build open source software for public infrastructure
Start or join a local cooperative that does something you're passionate about. Give members of your community stable and meaningful employment with real ownership, autonomy and decision-making.
i'm dirt poor but I feel like ive already has quite an impact on a reasonable number of people. I won't take about the specific things that i get up to but community work can reach a lot of people if you do it right. start a food not bombs, open an autonomous squatted homeless shelter
Hit man idea and then buy Fox News.
As a single person it would be really difficult unless the start up capital is very high.
Personally I would think, building a company in a developing country fucusing on creating infrastructure for sustainable economy and giving people equal chanced would be great. (Would only work in a vacuum tho, since many imperialistic forces are still employed in many developing nations keeping them dependend on developed nations).
At the very least you need some sort of mechanism that makes the project self sustaining.
assuming i somehow aquired Too Much Money (the centi-billionaire sorta Too Much Money), i'd give the money to land back projects, reforestation/rewilding projects, and native food forest projects, globally.
that probably still wouldn't use up much of a centi-billionaire's money, but i genuinely cannot grasp how much money that is.. maybe get involved in politics & make it an international crime to charge money for anything that's a human right, like housing/food/water 🤔
Focus the capital on research that's already going into creating matter assemblers. They use light to form matter. This creates food and objects at whatever scale the machines can be created at. No more hunger or digging material out of the Earth bc light is free from the sun. No more shipping costs. Construction happens on the spot. And since the machines can dissolve matter too, there's your recycling and cleaning up the landfills and oceans.
I would start buying plots of land in food deserts, demolish the buildings there and start up communal gardening hubs. Actually, there are a ton of things that could be done to areas like this to make them walkable and liveable — but gardening hubs first sounds good.
I fricking love communal gardening plots!
I would build decentralized platforms that secure the basic needs of a civilization.
Basically I would implement core functionality as a service. Everyone deserves a say in what they consume, in how they're governed. I would codify all of that, open source it, and foster a culture of continuous improvement for all systems of governance.
This pattern, if done correctly, could persist for generations to come, and redefine our relationship with governance, exchange, and freedom. The objective would be to most accurately capture the will of the governed, with minimal disruption or life intrusion.
Such a mechanism would be infectious. Eventually, every population in the world would adopt it or some form of it.
This would make the world better for everyone, in every industry, on every level.
It would be something... Violent. Can't change the system to be better by using the system. Gotta destroy it first, and there will be... so much resistance against that.
But to make life better for the majority, action will have to be covert. None of that terrorist shit with shock, awe, destruction of public spaces, and the loss of civilian life. No names, no titles, no spotlight, no ego.
Making life better for the majority will also be a lifetime career, and the resulting world that will hopefully be built from such action would not be for me to live in, but future generations.
I say all this as some random guy on the Internet, but... One can dream. For now I'll settle with my job as an active trade unionist.
yeah some weirdos just love running water and electricity so grandma doesn't cook / suffocate.
look, I get it, you can't see any way to make things better, but you only have to smell bodies once or go a week without water coming from the faucet to start appreciating that perhaps.... destroy it all first isn't the best plan we can come up with.
I've been there already. Surviving without all that for years. You can thank 2008 for that.
sure thing bud. you've been there but want it back, I do not believe you.
I don't care what you believe, but you seem to be completely missing the point.
you're so gung ho for tearing down the infrastructure mate, I think I know the point.
if you have a better plan by all means lay it out, but 'tear it all down' fucks so many you don't care about.
Yeah, you're completely missing the point.
no, you're full of shit.
What's a reasonable amount of start-up capital? I wonder if you could make a big difference in US politics if you had like 50 billion USD and invested it all into promoting progressive (i.e. left of the DNC-mainstream) politicians and policy. Making sure that the USA don't fuck everyone else's shit up would make a huge difference.
Like, how much money are all the fascist billionaires actually investing into politics?
Might be a little late for this approach, though, at this point I'd expect that three letter agencies would just assassinate me if I started that now.
Solve world hunger for a start.
Musks pay packages is enough to do that and still have leftover.
Use any and all publicly to talk about taxing the super rich. Reminding that tesla is only giving the end world hunger amount of money in projection of making 800 times as much.
Approach Moshe Safdie's company about building Habitat 2027, 60 years after the scaled down compromise was built:
Habitat 67
I'd research an internet node that could be raised with a couple of bake sales and deployed anywhere with the objective of providing free high-speed wifi to the populated world.
After a roll-out to get every point on the globe covered (that has people near it), we'd work on an upgrade campaign to make sure it is redundant and robust and never shuts down no matter how angry the local dictators are.
The people have advantage when crowdsourcing repairs and reroutes around censorship and responding to DDOS so this should usher in a wave of democratic (lower case) movements across the world. Movements towards public services and benefits will likely follow, according to CIA analysts who study such things.
I’d probably have to resort to fraud. I’d just say I needed seed money for some AI bullshit, and BAM, I’d be swimming in cash overnight.
I would start a workers' revolution, then imprison anyone opposed to the revolution, then imprison anyone who was for the revolution but not in the right way, and then crush all remaining dissent and hand-pick my successor.
Hmm
Definitely not by building a $1T Robot army.
Establish a representative council from people all over the world like this project to decide what projects would be usefull. An undefined amount of start-up capital is too much power for a single person to handle responsible so I'd delegate those decisions to as many different people as possible.
I'd domesticate bears.
what did they do to you to deserve such a shit fate?
Hit squad for billionaires I guess. Does it need to be legal?
Copy hank and john green?
Re vamp the education system to go back to like it was during the mid 20th century.
Cheap, effective, accessible.
How much would it costs to send all of the world's politicians to the titanic using ocean gate subs? Just suggesting they discuss their disagreements down there.
I would produce a pill that rewires the human brain to focus on the good events occurring around them and in the world.
Far too many of our societal problems are due to a significant portion of the world focusing on negative events. How many channel 9 news events are focused on car crashes or shootings? How much social media profit is based upon rage bait? How many hours wasted scrolling on insta fantasizing about being anyone but your own self?
We have within ourselves already great capacity to do great things, we just need to unchain that potential.
There are negative events in the world that have significant impact on people's lives, with worsening effects the longer it is ignored.
The pill you're proposing would probably get massively endorsed by the wrong people, as it would make whole populations into happy complacent little workers for those at the top.