What would you do with 100 billion dollars to have the most positive impact on the largest number of people? - eviltoast

My partner and I were discussing this over dinner, our ideas went from buying up land to finance organic farming and distributing it at the lowest price to crashing the financial system to “reset” everybody’s bank account with no possible recovery. Any other ideas?

  • fckreddit@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    In the book Capital in 21st Century, the author comes to a conclusion that one way to reduce inequality is by increasing the skills among the people. I would make higher education more accessible to poor people via scholarships, establishing colleges, etc…

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      1 year ago

      Ooo a meritocracy, very impressive, and surely if the poor were just better trained and smarter, we’d live in a utopia.