Rather than re-allocating their money across every human on earth, why not allocate it inversely proportional to the net worth of the recipient (and maybe also local currency conversion rate), to uplift the poorest folks?
Could probably choose a lower number, too - say, $100M. Nobody needs anywhere remotely close to that.
Yeah 100M feels right. Also, wealth is usually tied up in non liquid assets, and it makes no sense to either force liquidation even if it crashes the value, or divide ownership equally among 9 billion people. Each asset needs to be re-allocated on a case by case basis. Like, the private international bridge in Detroit, it's much more valuable as a single asset than the steel scrap it could be sold for.
I just realized that the realty market always runs a drought to up its sale price. Also, since homeless also don’t have housing, there’s an even greater housing shortage than just those seeking to move into a “forever home.”
I’d rather make sure everyone has everything they need for at least basic life. Healthcare, education, infrastructure to name a few. Food for schools. I know a lot of countries already have this. But many don’t even have access to clean water. Ideally worldwide. And throw corrupt politicians and military overlords in there. Although many of them would be counted in the >$1b. Get rid of the religious wackjobs and maybe we could start progressing as a species.
That's just gonna drive up inflation. Instead, invest that into better farms, industries, businesses, and schools that provide services at-cost or free. Or just use the assets left by those guys for the public good, they're already set up.
Afaik from perspective of the one falling nothing may even change as they cross into the black hole. And I think they also never reach the center in their local timeframe, but that one I can't remember
I had the opportunity some "time" ago and I chose to send our entire universe into a black hole. Now we are all stuck here, infinitely reliving the same existences and timelines. My bad.
One of those infinitely long, perfectly rigid, incompressible, conductive rods I read so much about while I was trying to learn the stuff you need to know before you can start studying black holes
I didn't think about the escape part. Who knows, maybe there is a wormhole at the end.
Also, I'm pretty sure it will be a much peaceful way to go then the sarlac pit, considering the speeds involved.
Not much, as I understand it it's as difficult, if not more difficult to actually enter a black hole, as it is to throw something into the sun. Literally easier to just fling it out into the cosmos.
You have to shed the inertia you already have to fall into the sun. The difference is about 30km/s or 108,000 km/h to slow down enough. The rotational plane of the solar system can be used to speed you up to escape velocity, especially with a slingshot off one of the giants, so it requires a lot less fuel.
IIRC, and understand the theory correctly, I believe your best chance for survival is a spinning supermassive black hole. I think that's the one that might not spaghettify you. I know you want supermassive, just can't remember if you want it spinning or stationary.
If you can survive it, you'll end up at the end of the universe within your own lifetime, due to time dilation. Possibly almost instantly from your perspective. Not sure what you'd do at that point though.
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Every person in the world with a net worth over $1B USD. Then I'd equally reallocate their money across every human on earth.
Rather than re-allocating their money across every human on earth, why not allocate it inversely proportional to the net worth of the recipient (and maybe also local currency conversion rate), to uplift the poorest folks?
Could probably choose a lower number, too - say, $100M. Nobody needs anywhere remotely close to that.
The economics of unlucky Mario Party spaces
Yeah 100M feels right. Also, wealth is usually tied up in non liquid assets, and it makes no sense to either force liquidation even if it crashes the value, or divide ownership equally among 9 billion people. Each asset needs to be re-allocated on a case by case basis. Like, the private international bridge in Detroit, it's much more valuable as a single asset than the steel scrap it could be sold for.
I just realized that the realty market always runs a drought to up its sale price. Also, since homeless also don’t have housing, there’s an even greater housing shortage than just those seeking to move into a “forever home.”
I’d rather make sure everyone has everything they need for at least basic life. Healthcare, education, infrastructure to name a few. Food for schools. I know a lot of countries already have this. But many don’t even have access to clean water. Ideally worldwide. And throw corrupt politicians and military overlords in there. Although many of them would be counted in the >$1b. Get rid of the religious wackjobs and maybe we could start progressing as a species.
That's just gonna drive up inflation. Instead, invest that into better farms, industries, businesses, and schools that provide services at-cost or free. Or just use the assets left by those guys for the public good, they're already set up.
Or better yet, send the money with them.
B-but billionaires have rights too!!
They can stop being billionaires by giving away that money anytime they want to not go into the black hole.
OMG that's actually fair
Seems like an arbitrary threshold. Does anybody actually need $900 million? Or $300 million? Or...
Yes, I'm in dire need of $999,999,999.99 but of course I don't need any more than that, thank you
Using Hawking radiation!
The GOP
I'd choose the entirety of American politics.
Politicians
Hedge fund management
Influencers
Not exhaustive but a good start
High frequency trader
Republicans.
Billionaires!
Was gonna say the Epstein class but those are basically one and the same. ^
Another black hole. I just wanna see what happens you know?
They just merge. They're just really really dense concentrations of mass-energy, not extradimensional portals.
you just described my ex
Trick question. Time dilation means nothing ever actually enters a black hole. It just keeps getting infinitesimally close.
"are we there yet" ... "are we there yet"...
I'm not that scientifically literate, but isn't that just from the perspective of an outside observer?
Afaik from perspective of the one falling nothing may even change as they cross into the black hole. And I think they also never reach the center in their local timeframe, but that one I can't remember
From your point of view yes. I guess it fades into the infrared and keeps fading away.
That just makes it a worse fate
What if someone pushed?
Every. Single. Fascist.
More black holes
I'd throw in the post below
The Unsellable Elephant that thw other guy just got on his weird application survey question.
The republican party. Aka modern day fascists.
Maybe the DNC and establishment neoliberals too, who ushered in fascism.
All of the Republicans.
Big Oil
Oh, please, you know exactly who my answers are.
Billionaires and Right wingers around the world.
The human compulsion to invent religions.
I had the opportunity some "time" ago and I chose to send our entire universe into a black hole. Now we are all stuck here, infinitely reliving the same existences and timelines. My bad.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/james-webb-space-telescope/is-our-universe-trapped-inside-a-black-hole-this-james-webb-space-telescope-discovery-might-blow-your-mind
A white hole.
This one's underrated
Aging.
Can't I just roll it around like the ball in katamari?
Is it not already spaghettified!?
Myself, and hope that it will be a fast end
myself
Another blackhole
the worlds top 40 wealthiest people.
$1 for good luck
One of those infinitely long, perfectly rigid, incompressible, conductive rods I read so much about while I was trying to learn the stuff you need to know before you can start studying black holes
MAGA. Make America Go (into the) Accretion (disc)
By now just the entire planet.
There's precious life on the planet. It's beautiful. It would be a shame if such a rare thing disappeared.
Just send humanity, they (we) earned it a long time ago.
Mosquitos, all of them. Ecosystem will equilibrate eventually and all will be fine.
It's actually only a handful out of the 3500 species that's an issue.
ecosystem equilibriates by inventing super-mosquito
I want to throw some spaghetti in. Spaghetti gets sphagettified
Myself to see what's all the fuss is about.
The Sarlac pit might be a blessing since the Mandalorian suggests you could escape, but a blackhole… that’d suck.
I didn't think about the escape part. Who knows, maybe there is a wormhole at the end. Also, I'm pretty sure it will be a much peaceful way to go then the sarlac pit, considering the speeds involved.
A probe.
Just toss in a rock, it’d have the same result.
Head of the Italian Senate Ignazio Benito La Russa
a radio broadcast of Never Gonna Give You Up
10^52 electrons
Jokes on you, the universe only has one extremely busy electron.
Not much, as I understand it it's as difficult, if not more difficult to actually enter a black hole, as it is to throw something into the sun. Literally easier to just fling it out into the cosmos.
Why?
You have to shed the inertia you already have to fall into the sun. The difference is about 30km/s or 108,000 km/h to slow down enough. The rotational plane of the solar system can be used to speed you up to escape velocity, especially with a slingshot off one of the giants, so it requires a lot less fuel.
Oh right
Bill Cipher
Greed
Pasta dough.
The greed of humans
There is like a very specific country in the middle east I am thinking of...
The perception of that country Israeli quite poor at the moment.
Well played.
Money, borders
Now what the heck is a black hole gonna do with those?
The snail
That goddamned orbiting teapot.
Barking neighborhood dogs. Straight to void.
A white hole.
Earth
My mistakes
Was gonna say billionaires, but then I thought: why not go myself? See you on the other side, losers.
IIRC, and understand the theory correctly, I believe your best chance for survival is a spinning supermassive black hole. I think that's the one that might not spaghettify you. I know you want supermassive, just can't remember if you want it spinning or stationary.
If you can survive it, you'll end up at the end of the universe within your own lifetime, due to time dilation. Possibly almost instantly from your perspective. Not sure what you'd do at that point though.
Pretty sure even if you don't spaghettify, you still get crushed to death by the pressure.
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Every white US liberal too cowardly to throw a punch