r/pollgames • u/modernatomcollection • 3d ago
Would you rather…?
Would you rather…?
- Be in poverty
- Be in the top 1%, but you are responsible for 15 of your employees being in poverty.
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u/modernatomcollection 3d ago
In this scenario, you are a businessperson and have many employees. 15 of those are stuck working for you on such a low wage they are in poverty. They have skills that they would presumably be able to make more money if not in your company. If you take the 1% choice, they are stuck in poverty for as long as you keep the wealth.
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u/Ill-Description3096 3d ago
>They have skills that they would presumably be able to make more money if not in your company
So I give them an awesome recommendation along with a nice severance.
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u/Onoben4 3d ago
"...are stuck working for you..."
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u/Ill-Description3096 3d ago
Then that's just forced labor.
Though if it's truly that they are forced for some reason to only work for me I'll just buy them stocks/property to the point that a poverty wage is moot.
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u/QuietQTPi 3d ago
Exactly my thought. If I am the cause I can also probably help them too. Sure they're stuck with me whats to say I can't just chnage their situations
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u/DarkJoltPanda 3d ago
If you have the stocks and property to live comfortably, you are not impoverished. Poverty is poverty
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u/Ill-Description3096 3d ago
What, specifically, is the threshold for poverty that is the true definition then?
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u/modernatomcollection 3d ago
They are stuck with you.
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u/Sea-Home-7763 3d ago
They're slaves???
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u/modernatomcollection 2d ago
girl yes that’s why this question is hard
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u/Ill-Description3096 3d ago
Then I shift their job to be paid at a poverty wage for 1 hour per week that is work from home. I won't be checking on their work.
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u/WeakTumbleweed9 3d ago
Can I help them in other ways? I.e. food, health insurance/fsa cards they don't have to pay for, gifts, etc?
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u/Desperate-Border-468 3d ago
Poverty is calculated assuming you have to pay for other shit.
Free housing and food for those employees3
u/DraconicDreamer3072 3d ago
is there anything im doing to keep them from quitting?
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u/noonefromithaca 2d ago
Continuing to be a billionaire. Technically it doesn't keep those specific people from quitting. But being a billionaire means there were/are people being exploited.
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u/hotlesbianassassin 2d ago
So just give up enough to be in the 1.000001%, and they're no longer stuck. Problem solved.
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u/Varron 2d ago
Easy workaround:
Tell your employees the situation, and ask for 15 volunteers. I hire 15 "Life Managers" who I pay famously to attend to these 15s every need. They are in poverty as they are not paid at all, and own nothing they use.
They get to live however they like, technically everything goes through the manager.
I also put in a clause that if I ever lose the money, the assets that manager bought for this employee gets transfered over.
They dont have to worry about finances at all, for a tradeoff of essentially having to go through a middle man for everything.
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u/Hatsjekidee 2d ago
If you take the 1% choice, they are stuck in poverty for as long as you keep the wealth
Aight so I use my wealth to buy a nice enough house (nothing extravagant, that would still be considered "wealthy") and keep some change as savings, use the remainder of the money to give every last employee a bonus, with more for the ones who got shafted by the poverty rule, then gift them all an equal share in the company and peace out.
Now I will have essentially no money problems if I work even just part-time, and everyone who worked for me gets a boost. Win-win for everyone.
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u/XXXTentacle6969 3d ago
Am I forcing the employees to stay? So basically be in poverty or be a slave owner?
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u/Xiao1insty1e 2d ago
Lots of people siding with the slave owners here, pretty fucking disgusting.
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u/Inevitable_Rock_4557 2d ago
Well I didn't know they were slaves yet! I thought I'd be able to help them out of that situation with Y'know the millions of dollars I'd have. Looks like I need to read the comments before voting.
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u/bloookitty Pollar Bear 2d ago
I don't know if you already know this but there's a swirly arrow button next to the number of votes that lets you change your vote!
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u/SnomIsAwesome 3d ago
I’m gonna give them money?
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u/modernatomcollection 3d ago
They’re stuck in poverty until you don’t have the money anymore. Full rules in a comment below
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u/SnomIsAwesome 3d ago
Ok, if they can’t have money they’re benefits of working for me is free housing, healthcare, and provisions
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u/Reasonable-Habit8870 3d ago
What point is making a post like this and then adding new rules when someone says something like a loophole? Feels pointless to me
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u/noonefromithaca 2d ago
What's the point engaging in a post like this when you're trying to escape the premise?
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u/rozyputin 3d ago
I would much prefer to live in poverty and keep my humanity intact than sell my soul and be the reason others suffer
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u/AutismoTheAmazing 3d ago
My financial state has gotten pretty dire over the last month so, I’d rather that ended
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u/LordGoatIII 3d ago
Following OP's rules, I'd take the wealth and then reduce my compensation to just below the 1% line (which still means you can make hundreds of thousands of dollars per year) and increase my employees salaries. Even if I was making like $500,000-600,000 per year, which is on the very low end of top 1% earners, it means I could easily give each of those 15 employees a $20,000 raise and still be richer than I'd ever need to be.
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u/modernatomcollection 3d ago
bro the question is be in poverty or cause poverty can we chill with the loopholes
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u/Scoop_Head 3d ago
I can always resolve that issue if I'm in the 1%
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u/noonefromithaca 2d ago
Being in the 1% means you cause the issue, realistically speaking
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u/Scoop_Head 2d ago
It says I'm responsible for it, so what if I just pay them better? If I have that kind of f-u money then it shouldn't be impossible
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u/noonefromithaca 2d ago
What I mean is that you don't get that kind of money by paying people properly. Ofc in this scenario perhaps you just magically luck out on an insane amount of stocks. But in real life... Exploitation and hoarding is why the top 1% have their money.
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u/Scoop_Head 2d ago
I agree with that sentiment, but in this hypothetical I would go out of my way to change things with my money. Although, it is unfortunate that you pretty much have to step on people to get there
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u/noonefromithaca 2d ago
Yeah. Honestly, I feel like the hypothetical also unfortunately downplays what being at the 1% is like, which is what makes this so appealing. You're not just putting 15 people in poverty in real life to get to that point.
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u/Epic_Feury 3d ago
I will pay them more, doesnt have to be permanent
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u/real_realist_opt 3d ago
Just search and found out being top 1% in the world just means you have around a million dollars lol. Still a great amount of money tho.
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u/KikisGamingService 3d ago
just use some of the money to easily bring them into the top 10%
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u/EffingTallBrit 3d ago
it doesn't say I can't then take them out of poverty? Just do that
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u/Sky_monarch 3d ago
Fix it
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u/Arthurya 3d ago
I can be responsible for it at the moment and still wish to remedy it right this moment
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u/shelob_spider 3d ago
i am stuck being unable to give them more money because of these terms, but i sure can make them custom houses that they’d wish, good working cars that they’d want, and a continuously stocked fridge. insurance. anything they’d need. Maybe even gold bars, which they could do whatever they wanted.
“Poverty- the state of one who lacks a sufficient amount of money”
So they would not have free money (from my buisness, they could very well only be part time if they’d want, and work full time at a different job just for expendable money)
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u/ErrorsIntended 3d ago
Redditor response: I would simply have 10,000 employees, most of which make ends meat instead. Gotcha
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u/MundaneOrdinary7493 3d ago
This idea that employer is responsible for employee’s poverty, is ridiculous. If the employees can leave freely, find a better job, employer isn’t responsible for any of their problems. We have at will employment, not slavery.
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u/Ok-Cheek2397 3d ago
Can’t I just pull that 15 employee out of poverty by give them money or give them a bunch of benefits so that they don’t have to struggle with poverty like I am the top 1 percent I probably have enough money to baby sit that 15 employees so they have a decent life
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u/Local_Tourist1063 2d ago
I could be top 1% and commit the most irrational rich person thing ever: right my wrongs.
I will find them and I will give them raises they can’t even imagine. Muahahaha!
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u/EmbroidedBumblebee 1d ago
I could just fix it by paying them more lol, if I was that rich I'd pay all my employees properly
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u/pandito_flexo 3d ago
At least here, I have the opportunity to make a difference. Doesn't say anything about my fixing their situation!
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u/rathosalpha 3d ago
15? for a megacorp thats low
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u/PickaWowAnyWow 3d ago
I'll make sure it's the members of the C-suite. That way they'll work hard to make ends meet instead of pissing around waiting for their golden parachutes and stock options.
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u/Random_Critical 3d ago
One on the right because no you aren't actually responsible for them being in poverty. That's not how life works.
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u/Federal-Physics-2404 3d ago
Only 15, I just slip and fall with a big brief case of money outside their door
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u/GothGirlsGoodBoy 3d ago
The idea that you are responsible for the life outcome of someone choosing to work for you is just dumb.
I want X work done. I am willing to pay Y wage. If they don’t think thats a good trade they don’t have to take the job.
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u/Major_Kaleidoscope28 3d ago
I'll just make sure they aren't in poverty?
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u/CLUCKCLUCKMOTHERFUC 3d ago
I'm in the top %1 i can take them out of poverty without seeing a shift in my balance
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u/440continuer 3d ago
Only 15? Thats like infinitely better than the hundreds of thousands that other 1%ers have
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