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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Why?

    Why 100 million?

    I get that the number of 10 million is arbitrary, hell, I just semi randomly picked it, but a 10 million net worth gets you A LOT more than you actually need.

    Why allow 100 million, though? 10 million is more than any person would need to love an actually full life with travel and plenty of whatever, and you could still invest some money in a small company. Want a bigger one? Join a bunch of people and make a bigger one.

    100 million gets into the range where youncan project power over others and that is the entire thing that got us where we are. No person should hold large amounts of power, humanity has shown over and over that that is a very bad idea.


  • That won’t be as easy as you think. Again, how would you do that if monetary incentives are mostly gone? If nobody is poor enough to help with evil plans, evil plans become really hard.

    Heck, add in another simple rule: make all wealth information public. If nobody is poor and nobody really rich, there won’t be much incentives to abuse that information and if we know peoples worth, it will be glaringly obvious that somebody is cheating

    I know that this is an obvious oversimplification bit small changes like these areuch easier to implement than say "let’s all become anarchist and the world will be fine!’ because that will never happen.

    These small changes keep everything else the same and at least it solves a huge list of problems from people dying from hunger to most crime to most wars to climate change. All of these mentioned are mostly only possible because we allow extreme wealth.

    Take extreme wealth away and the world would be so much better