[blue]
If you could push a button that gives you a hundred thousand dollars but a random person dies, would you do it?
[yellow, cautious]
Interesting thought experiment… intuitively, I’d say no, but it’s worth thinking about… it’s a genuine moral dilemma in a capitalist world: there’s a dialectic between our desires and the common good…
MEANWHILE, BILLIONAIRES
[an orange guy in a suit is shown with a terrifying grin pushing as many buttons as possible at once on a table, slamming one of the buttons, and even using their foot to press an extra one]
https://thebad.website/comic/the_totally_hypothetical_button_thought_experiment
I would press it at least ten times. A hundred times would also be tempting. There are eight billion people in the world. Chances are I won’t know anyone who dies.
the next person who gets to press the button doesnt know you either, thats the trick
And even if you know them, once you reach a certain amount of money you won’t care anymore about the serfs.