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?

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    Buy and open source as much farming, education, housing, medical and general automation technology and is practical, then deploy non profit supply chains to allow even the furthest reaches of the planet the ability to acquire and implement this technology.

    Subsidize the edges of this supply chain to ensure the most disadvantaged get equal access

    With everything that remains, acquire the means of productions (farmland, housing, mines, wells, roads, rivers) that are in private lands and set them up with an autonomous non-profit democratic anti-privatisable organisational structure built to exploit those resources for the benefit of the local population.

    Basically, it’s doing the exact opposite of the “enclosures” and then making sure it doesn’t happen again.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Sugrue