<![CDATA[Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence.]]>Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence.

If you spent $1 million a day…you would still need 2700 years to spend your fortune.

You could solve world hunger…that would cost less than 1% of global military spending:

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/11/1166397

$93 billion a year.

But getting poor people to riot and destroy other poor people’s homes and infrastructure must tickle some inhumane part of ’s brain.

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]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/users/catdad/statuses/116730581329456200https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/users/catdad/statuses/116730581329456200Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:41:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:39:08 GMT]]>@JugglingWithEggs
Tempting to think people starve because others like it that way.
Difficult to solve.
Money is promises, and work is done by people, and I think it is non-trivial to turn the assets owned by billionaires into something good for others.

Worthwhile, but many discrete tasks.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Photo55/statuses/116730570237964409https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Photo55/statuses/116730570237964409Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:39:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:03:01 GMT]]>@JugglingWithEggs

Anything like this that's organized on discord or Twitter is done with the permission of Palantir.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/eestileib/statuses/116730192328394263https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/eestileib/statuses/116730192328394263Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:03:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:25:39 GMT]]>@AquaClaire @JugglingWithEggs

Remember the date of the paper.

It was written before the 2025 roll-out of solar farms, and before the 2026 bombing of Iran, which has increased the speed of the current transition to renewables, so the current figures will be a smaller percentage of the overall Global Energy Production.

This was also before the rollout of the Chinese automated "Dark Factories" in 2025, so Global Productivity has increased as well.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/BillySmith/statuses/116729809448348252https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/BillySmith/statuses/116729809448348252Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:25:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:32:46 GMT]]>@BillySmith Thank you... I hope that paper is widely discussed by our next generation of economics students! @JugglingWithEggs

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ecoevo.social/users/AquaClaire/statuses/116729129636691096https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ecoevo.social/users/AquaClaire/statuses/116729129636691096Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:32:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:16:48 GMT]]>@JugglingWithEggs Stirring up hatred and violence is how you end up with a trillion dollars in a completely broken and corrupt system.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115494710698880506/statuses/116729066876631440https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115494710698880506/statuses/116729066876631440Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:16:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:42:10 GMT]]>@SaanichGuy @JugglingWithEggs somebody hoarding stuff in their own home is considered mentally ill. Time for wealth hoarders to be considered the same.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/Jam123/statuses/116728930659193687https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/Jam123/statuses/116728930659193687Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:42:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:11:51 GMT]]>@JugglingWithEggs Even if it cost 20% of military spending, wouldn’t it be worth it? Not if you are et al.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/Bobsee/statuses/116728811433868170https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/Bobsee/statuses/116728811433868170Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:11:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:03:48 GMT]]>@JugglingWithEggs hoarding wealth is an illness

How much do you need? If your answer is more you are sick

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/SaanichGuy/statuses/116728779791953526https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/SaanichGuy/statuses/116728779791953526Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:03:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:57:09 GMT]]>@JugglingWithEggs

no education
no food
no healthcare
no living wage
no affordable housing

we can't afford those

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/samiamsam/statuses/116728753642537536https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/samiamsam/statuses/116728753642537536Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:57:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:36:01 GMT]]>@JugglingWithEggs @LJ if I had a trillion dollars I’d be spending my time giving it away and using it to restore some sanity. Might move to a house in the mountains with a great view and room for the dog to run around like a maniac. Put up a cat-proof fence so my cats could go outside if they wanted. Start a cat rescue, fund other ones.

My wife always says “nobody goes hungry on your watch” because I usually buy or make more than enough food for family gatherings or parties. I’d love to make that literally true and see to it everybody eats.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/jzb/statuses/116728670566310716https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/jzb/statuses/116728670566310716Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:36:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:41:53 GMT]]>@JugglingWithEggs

Another paper from October 2024 showing this:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493?via%3Dihub

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/BillySmith/statuses/116728221757362257https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/BillySmith/statuses/116728221757362257Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:41:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:41:23 GMT]]>@JugglingWithEggs

Musk already turned down a plan to end world hunger. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-said-hed-6-220133724.html?guccounter=1

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://furry.engineer/users/orman/statuses/116728219778465174https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://furry.engineer/users/orman/statuses/116728219778465174Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:41:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:46:01 GMT]]>@JugglingWithEggs I doubt Musk is actually tweeting himself...

And I doubt it's done without the go ahead from the people in charge.

Governments want people to riot, so they can take away more freedoms.

That's how my brain works anyway 😅 it's all a show. Orchestrated.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/shemjm/statuses/116728002090901015https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/shemjm/statuses/116728002090901015Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:46:01 GMT