Focus the capital on research that’s already going into creating matter assemblers. They use light to form matter. This creates food and objects at whatever scale the machines can be created at. No more hunger or digging material out of the Earth bc light is free from the sun. No more shipping costs. Construction happens on the spot. And since the machines can dissolve matter too, there’s your recycling and cleaning up the landfills and oceans.
Collapse the current US government by changing a 1 to a 0
Start-up capital means investors, investors mean expecting a return on investment, that means you must make sure that people you help will pay you back more than you spent helping them.
The concept in itself is contradictory. If you want to help someone, the easiest thing is not to expect anything in return for the help.
At this point, start an media company. Call it Working Class Propaganda and publish stories that I think we should be talking about instead of what is out there. Explain how the rich are controlling the echo chambers and the topics of conversations so we can’t ever get to solving real problems. Too many people get rich by us not solving these problems. How much money is spent on anti-union, anti-public transportation, or anti-universal health care? All that money is always spent by companies getting rich off the current system.
I have no clue how to explain some concepts in an easy manner, but if I had enough start up I would hire many others. Promise to never be AI articles or pictures. Explain open source and the problems of having a walled garden. Explain Israel having a honey pot setup for pedos and now they have blackmail on many American and EU elites.
I would start buying plots of land in food deserts, demolish the buildings there and start up communal gardening hubs. Actually, there are a ton of things that could be done to areas like this to make them walkable and liveable — but gardening hubs first sounds good.
I would start a workers’ revolution, then imprison anyone opposed to the revolution, then imprison anyone who was for the revolution but not in the right way, and then crush all remaining dissent and hand-pick my successor.
Depending on the maximum budget, I would create a foundation with the single purpose of promoting & integrating European cooperatives and unions, with a big focus on educating everyone on the importance of democracy specially in the management of resources.
My hope is that it could foster a strong enough grassroots movement to achieve the goal of a radically democratic society in some of the most “advanced” economies.
Probably get as many conservatives out of power as possible. Once they’re gone we can work on climate change, better electoral systems, removing the evils of capitalism, and so on.
Since I can’t see the limit on the start-up capital, I remember UN making a plan to end world hunger for measly 6.6B$ after Elon said he’d sell stocks and fund it if they did so. So yeah, I’d fund that.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/18/tech/elon-musk-world-hunger-wfp-donation/
Maybe it’s just the gourmand in me, but this is also my priority. It seems like we should be able to ensure no human goes hungry. Production isn’t an issue, it’s distribution/logistics.
Plumbing is a noble trade.
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Start or join a local cooperative that does something you’re passionate about. Give members of your community stable and meaningful employment with real ownership, autonomy and decision-making.
It would be something… Violent. Can’t change the system to be better by using the system. Gotta destroy it first, and there will be… so much resistance against that.
But to make life better for the majority, action will have to be covert. None of that terrorist shit with shock, awe, destruction of public spaces, and the loss of civilian life. No names, no titles, no spotlight, no ego.
Making life better for the majority will also be a lifetime career, and the resulting world that will hopefully be built from such action would not be for me to live in, but future generations.
I say all this as some random guy on the Internet, but… One can dream. For now I’ll settle with my job as an active trade unionist.
Hire a militia to kidnap/vanish all billionaires.
I’d start hiring hitmen to kill every billionaire in the world.
Youre going to need to start a cult and get disciples. Even with some start up capital they can out bid you so your only hope is religious indoctrination
Not a bad idea
But first make sure their will & estate stipulates that their wealth will be evenly distributed among every deserving needful hardworking person on the planet, right?
No need. If they have heirs, the wealth will be split. If the resulting heirs still have enough to be billionaires apply the solution recursively. Eventually it will be diluted enough that nobody is a billionaire.
If there are no heirs it usually goes to the state (depending on jurisdiction).
Why? Just imply sending another hitman! I think the billionaires would find themselves feeling very altruistic eventually.
Solve world hunger for a start.
Musks pay packages is enough to do that and still have leftover.
Use any and all publicly to talk about taxing the super rich. Reminding that tesla is only giving the end world hunger amount of money in projection of making 800 times as much.
