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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chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · 117 pts · 61d
Every person in the world with a net worth over $1B USD. Then I'd equally reallocate their money across every human on earth.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 54 pts · 61d
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.
yakko@feddit.uk · 24 pts · 61d
The economics of unlucky Mario Party spaces
bratwurstest@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 61d
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.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 60d
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.”
UsefulInfoPlz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 61d
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.
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 61d
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.
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 61d
Or better yet, send the money with them.
espurr@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 61d
B-but billionaires have rights too!!
jlow@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 60d
They can stop being billionaires by giving away that money anytime they want to not go into the black hole.
espurr@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 60d
OMG that's actually fair
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 60d
Seems like an arbitrary threshold. Does anybody actually need $900 million? Or $300 million? Or...
sukhmel@programming.dev · 3 pts · 60d
Yes, I'm in dire need of $999,999,999.99 but of course I don't need any more than that, thank you
craftrabbit@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 60d
Using Hawking radiation!
Bwaz@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 61d
The GOP
AstralPath@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 61d
I'd choose the entirety of American politics.
haywire7@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 61d
Politicians
Hedge fund management
Influencers
Not exhaustive but a good start
ik5pvx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 60d
High frequency trader
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 61d
Republicans.
nuko147@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 60d
Billionaires!
EvasiveSpecies@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 60d
Was gonna say the Epstein class but those are basically one and the same. ^
sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 60d
Another black hole. I just wanna see what happens you know?
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 60d
They just merge. They're just really really dense concentrations of mass-energy, not extradimensional portals.
bdot@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 60d
you just described my ex
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 61d
Trick question. Time dilation means nothing ever actually enters a black hole. It just keeps getting infinitesimally close.
bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 61d
"are we there yet" ... "are we there yet"...
crimson_iris@piefed.social · 6 pts · 61d
I'm not that scientifically literate, but isn't that just from the perspective of an outside observer?
sukhmel@programming.dev · 2 pts · 60d
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
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 60d
From your point of view yes. I guess it fades into the infrared and keeps fading away.
morto@piefed.social · 4 pts · 60d
That just makes it a worse fate
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 59d
What if someone pushed?
boaratio@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 60d
Every. Single. Fascist.
jdr@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 61d
More black holes
onnekas@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 60d
I'd throw in the post below
jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 60d
The Unsellable Elephant that thw other guy just got on his weird application survey question.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 60d
The republican party. Aka modern day fascists.
Maybe the DNC and establishment neoliberals too, who ushered in fascism.
OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app · 13 pts · 61d
All of the Republicans.
87Six@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 61d
Big Oil
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 59d
Billionaires and Right wingers around the world.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 59d
Oh, please, you know exactly who my answers are.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 60d
The human compulsion to invent religions.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 61d
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
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 60d
A white hole.
Allero@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 59d
This one's underrated
kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 60d
Aging.
Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 61d
Can't I just roll it around like the ball in katamari?
brb@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 60d
myself
ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 59d
OldSageRick@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 61d
Myself, and hope that it will be a fast end
TheNamlessGuy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 60d
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 60d
Is it not already spaghettified!?
nbsp@programming.dev · 7 pts · 60d
$1 for good luck
Siegfried@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 59d
Another blackhole
Gust@piefed.social · 7 pts · 59d
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
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 59d
the worlds top 40 wealthiest people.
jaemo@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 60d
MAGA. Make America Go (into the) Accretion (disc)
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 59d
By now just the entire planet.
Dicska@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 57d
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.
ranzispa@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 61d
Mosquitos, all of them. Ecosystem will equilibrate eventually and all will be fine.
village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 61d
It's actually only a handful out of the 3500 species that's an issue.
tyranny@crazypeople.online · 1 pts · 60d
ecosystem equilibriates by inventing super-mosquito
sbeak@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 60d
I want to throw some spaghetti in. Spaghetti gets sphagettified
BurnedDonutHole@ani.social · 5 pts · 60d
Myself to see what's all the fuss is about.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 60d
The Sarlac pit might be a blessing since the Mandalorian suggests you could escape, but a blackhole… that’d suck.
BurnedDonutHole@ani.social · 1 pts · 59d
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.
plutopos@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 59d
Head of the Italian Senate Ignazio Benito La Russa
janus2@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 60d
a radio broadcast of Never Gonna Give You Up
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 60d
10^52 electrons
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 59d
Jokes on you, the universe only has one extremely busy electron.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 60d
A probe.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 60d
Just toss in a rock, it’d have the same result.
mathic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 59d
Pasta dough.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 59d
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.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 59d
Why?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 59d
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.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 59d
Oh right
5715@feddit.org · 3 pts · 61d
Bill Cipher
Maroon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 61d
c64z86@piefed.world · 3 pts · 59d
Greed
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 60d
Money, borders
bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 59d
Now what the heck is a black hole gonna do with those?
h4lf8yte@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 60d
There is like a very specific country in the middle east I am thinking of...
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 59d
The perception of that country Israeli quite poor at the moment.
natecox@programming.dev · 2 pts · 59d
Well played.
Lord743@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
The snail
Gonzako@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 60d
The greed of humans
ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 59d
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 59d
That goddamned orbiting teapot.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 60d
Was gonna say billionaires, but then I thought: why not go myself? See you on the other side, losers.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 59d
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.
CatAssTrophy@safest.space · 2 pts · 59d
Pretty sure even if you don't spaghettify, you still get crushed to death by the pressure.
Tiger_Man_@szmer.info · 2 pts · 57d
peak username
the_flying_pig@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 60d
A white hole.
quail@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 58d
Earth
pumpupthejam@piefed.social · 1 pts · 61d
Barking neighborhood dogs. Straight to void.
ultimate_worrier@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 60d
Arcadia@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 60d
My mistakes
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 60d
Every white US liberal too cowardly to throw a punch
SatansDaughter@quokk.au · 0 pts · 61d
Free bottom surgery