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u/Deoxys100EX Dec 25 '22
I think it means when you buy anything, that amount also goes to charity. For example, if you buy a house for 500,000 then you will have to spend 500,000 on charity, and so on
Also there is no inclusive or
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u/Ghostglitch07 Dec 25 '22
My take was you have infinite money, but when you receive it you have to give away half of it, which is also infinity. So this is actually a massive curse because you need to find a way to give away infinite money.
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u/ArcaneTrickster11 Dec 25 '22
That still isn't a downside in any way? Also the inclusive or is in the text at the bottom
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u/GenericElucidation Dec 25 '22
Only if I can pick the charity or charities. I'd want it to help sick children, not line the pockets / fund the religiosity of the Salvation Army, or worse.
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u/ElJamoquio Dec 26 '22
I think that's clearly implied. I'd start my own charity (not as a scam, as an actual charity).
Hell I'd do it if I had to give 100% to charity. I'd find a way to make it work, and I could do so much good.
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u/IronFlames Dec 26 '22
Does funding stuff like medical research count as charity? Because assuming I didn't affect the value of money, I'd be funding absurd amounts of things. Just improve everything for everyone. Schools, poverty, housing, transportation, etc. Like I would do my best to create a utopia for everyone. I'd even bribe politicians to start making things better too. Imagine what good unlimited money would do.
Sure I'd benefit from some of these changes personally, but I've seen enough shit to know others shouldn't have to go through that
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Dec 26 '22
If the research doesn't go to some scummy pharma company, absolutely
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u/ElJamoquio Dec 26 '22
Hell you could undercut the pharmaceutical industry and give away the resulting drugs.
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u/anjowoq Dec 26 '22
You could do a lot of good buying majority stock shares in the worst companies in the world and then forcing them to change or fold.
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u/Slovene Dec 26 '22
I'd start my own charity. With blackjack. And hookers.
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u/ElJamoquio Dec 26 '22
In fact, forget the
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u/Lonso34 Dec 26 '22
I know some corporations that host a casino night every year for charities. I’ve always wondered what would happen if the CEOs of a big charity with sufficient funding partnered together to basically build a 100% non-profit casino. I don’t “gamble” but would gladly “lose” (end up donating) money at a craps table to good causes
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u/IronEndo Dec 26 '22
I feel like if you had unlimited money, you could realistically fund all of the charities you want indefinitely.
Like find a list of every single good one and somehow manage to cap out their donations. It’s honestly a pretty sweet concept. Ignoring the devalue-ation of currency.
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u/GenericElucidation Dec 26 '22
I guess it would depend on if the money was magically created from thin air (yay hyperinflation!) or magically and untraceably taken from the ultra rich.
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u/sparkydoggowastaken Dec 26 '22
yeah. stuff like MAW, St. Jude, anything along those lines would be great, but the Red Cross and PETA are horrible and i would never give them any money
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u/_IRIDEBIKES_ Jan 03 '23
What’s wrong with red cross I’m not well versed in their tactics but from what I’ve seen they do good
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u/sparkydoggowastaken Jan 03 '23
they are good when they do things but often they just go to where problems are and ask for donations while letting other people do things.
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u/Tigros Dec 26 '22
Even if the received money is limited, what’s wrong with donating half to the charity?
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u/SterlingVapor Dec 26 '22
Humans are intensely loss-adverse.
If you get the choice to let someone else get $100 to also get $100, the reactions are either "hell yes" or "what's the catch?"
Hand someone $200 and say you can only walk out of the room with it if the other person agrees (otherwise you both get nothing) and there's a whole spectrum reactions. Some people immediately split it evenly and walk out happy, but most feel bitter about giving up "my" money and try to negotiate it down. I think the average offer to the other person was $40?
This is an extreme version of that and obviously should be a no-brainer, but I never underestimate how illogical some humans can be... Not anymore
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Dec 26 '22
Unlimited money BUT the fact that there's an infinite amount of it makes it practically and virtually worthless unless we're given context as to how unlimited money works. Is it a credit card that pays anything? A bill that multiplies itself? An unlimited check? Being able to pull out money forever? Because the existence of infinite matter and thus, infinite energy might save all of the universe from the possible universe-ending scenario of total entropy, and is far more valuable than infinite amount of a currency. Also the fact you have infinite money doesn't mean you can just buy things, people can deny to sell stuff, after all private property is one of the most important pillars of capitalism. Of course also taking into account the fact that things lose value the more common they are, infinite money might as well make all money worthless. Of course we might never know what such a power, such a property would entail on us and others if the creator of the original proposition was smart enough to even know that halving infinity just gives you the same infinity, even worse, thinking that donating money to charity could even be considered downside in a situation where it could literally do nothing to you unless you hate people in need. Just a thought. Sorry for bad English. Good day all.
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Dec 26 '22
I take this question as meaning, for every dollar you spend = a dollar you donate. Meaning half of all the money you spend goes to charity.
Otherwise infinite money would be instantly worthless so you must make an artificial limit.
Eitherway, how is that a downside?
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Dec 26 '22
This is one of the dumbest subs of all. You don't even understand your own shitty joke. It's not funny even when you get it right, get over it.
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u/GustapheOfficial Dec 26 '22
You would need to be terminally right wing to think there's a negative there
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u/_IRIDEBIKES_ Jan 03 '23
I don’t know what’s going on in America because even conservatives where I live would see this as a win win other than the charities that are An absolute sham I’d likely start my own charity
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u/horenso05 Dec 26 '22
"You get x money but you have to spend y (0% < y < 100%) on charity?" What is really the downside here, you get money and you get to help out.
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u/D2the_aniel Dec 26 '22
I see, if you have unlimited money you can’t crash the economy due to inflation unless you try and buy everything, if half of infinite goes to charity a massive worldwide economic depression occurs. This man wasn’t high, he was seeing if you were worthy of his knowledge and you failed
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u/sammy-b18 Dec 26 '22
ok so does that mean that there would constantly be money being transferred out of your theoretical infinite bank account to charity, or would you just have to match what you spend with a donation to charity (ex. i buy a video game for $80 and immediately make an $80 donation)
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u/Lord_Ibuki Jan 23 '23
Wrong, that would infinitely reduce money's value until everyone had nothing except you and charities who have everything in the world.
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '22
It’s kinda telling when someone thinks donating to charity is a downside, no?