• Laristal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    7·
    5 hours ago

    Fund free education and health care for everyone in the world regardless of race, nationality and creed. Imposed no matter how much kicking and screaming certain countries might do to oppose it. With appropriate countermeasures for each specific country that opposes it. A random country in the middle east that hates educating girls or whatever? Armed guards and other related measures as needed. US has entrenched for profit health care? Fund legislation that rips out the entire system by the roots etc.

    Excess funds would be invested in such a way as to fund those programs in perpetuity. With safeguards put in place so that I can be reasonably certain that it won’t be easy to dismantle from within or without.

    Assuming I have enough money left over, I’d do the same for housing.

    If I still have money left over if also fund ways of tackling the climate crisis and changing corporate strategy so instead of chasing infinite growth in a finite world the mentality is more about stability and stewardship, of the company and of the planet.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    I think about this all the time and I still have no idea.

    A good chunk of that money would end up going to experts to advise me how best to use it since I would want to maximize what good I could bring… 😩

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
    12·
    13 hours ago

    Assassinate the other billionaires. I genuinely believe billionaires are the source of all the biggest problems the planet has right now.

    • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 hours ago

      Someone is simply going to take their place. The problem isn’t the billionaires themselves, its the system.

      • spittingimage@lemmy.world
        9·
        10 hours ago

        We can do a lot more to change the system without a bunch of over-moneyed under-principled techbros trying to stop us.

  • matlag@sh.itjust.works
    28·
    15 hours ago

    I buy social medias and news outlets. Then I weaponize them to support a clueless gullible idiot candidate for POTUS.

    I use my influence on him to get a position that will allow me to get grossly richer by favoring my own businesses, including crushing unions and force my employees to work to death on low wages.

    When I reach 1 trillion $, I’ll have much more resources to improve the planet and living conditions of my fellow humans.

    But wait! Maybe I could do even more for humankind with 2 trillions $??

  • lethargic_lemming@lemmy.world
    9·
    13 hours ago

    bribe (sorry, i mean lobby) politicians to vote in interest of humanity. Environmental protection, public healthcare, solve the housing crisis/homeless epidemic, increase education budget spending, etc.

  • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
    31·
    10 hours ago

    There is a danish researcher called Björn Lomborg who has been researching this type of question a lot. He tends to get a lot of hate because the most cost efficient ways to spend money to do good isn’t what people want it to be.

      • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Iirc, micronutrients and HIV prevention, followed by preventing malaria. The idea is that we spend a little money now, to make many people grow up and be healthy, which avoids big costs to societies while at the same time generating people who can contribute more to the same societies. Many people want to solve the climate first, but it’s very expensive for very little return. In an ideal world we would solve all the problems, but… we don’t. So if we have limited resources, we should spend it where it does most long-term good. It’s not a bad idea to do good things for the climate, but if we have to choose between things to do, it gives little benefit per dollar compared to other things.

  • dwt@feddit.orgDeutsch
    2·
    12 hours ago

    I really like the idea to Fund a global election. Of a global government to act on global problems. Politics is not a zero sum game.

  • gi1242@lemmy.worldOP
    241·
    20 hours ago

    here are a few ideas I had:

    • invest / subsidized green tech
    • lobby to stop oil and gas subsidies
    • lobby to stop meat subsidies
    • lobby for stricter environmental taxes and regulations.
    • subsidize repair services so that it’s cheaper for people to fix things instead of buying new
    • offer bad politicians a lot of money to resign
    • buy companies that provide essential services (water gas net) and make them non profits
    • do the same to things like Uber Facebook Google, and make ads optional
    • make public transit free
    • make affordable healthcare
    • set up a charity with whatever’s left. withdraw 4% a year and split evenly it between to anyone who asks for it