As we all know if a rich person dies their company immediately goes out of business and all their workers are buried with them.
Elon Musk does seem like the type who would demand that his employees be entombed with him like the Pharaohs of old.
They'd have better luck if they didn't also insist on entombing the lawyers.
But what if Anubis sues them? They need to have a legal team in the afterlife.
just keep cycling through lawyers until one of them says yes.
okay what if the old guy was the president?
Back up the trolley and go over again to make sure the job is really done :lenin-shining:
Just keep adding pointless provisions: The old guy with cancer is the president. He also promised you lots of money if you let him live. He is also your loving father. Your mother is watching you pull the switch and will judge you accordingly. A nuclear bomb will also go off destroying a major city if he dies by unnatural causes.
I realized after commenting that i changed the trolley problem from 1 old guy with cancer to 1 old guy plus untold tens or hundreds of thousands of people with the nuke thing. lol oh well
“I think in my working life I’ve been with two companies where the owner died“
Damn can you come to my workplace
Ok but what if on one side is the president and on the other side there's five young bitcoin millionaires and silicon valley tech startup founders
love how they have to make up bullshit rules in their stupid thought experiment just for their system to seem remotely ethical
Lol I know right? It's like "yeah you can kill the rich guy, but you're very mean to do so! Oh and also his wealth goes with him. Oh and also he employs hundreds of people. Oh and also muh taxes. Oh and also and also and also-"
Yeah but one of those homeless guys? It was Jesus. Congrats, bourgies, y'all just killed Christ.
'But Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or naked or sick or as a homeless guy tied to the tracks, and did not minister to you?’
I one day hope to be a rich man, so I must justify becoming one in a society that is increasingly aware of both the problems of extreme wealth discrepancy, and the actual lack of contributions made to society by said rich people
Oh yeah and the homeless people are the real leeches
you might think a social and economic revolution is necessary to create a society which allows for the flourishing of all humankind, but if you look at my simulation where i've set
$COMMUNISM_WORKS = Falseyou'll see that that's absurd
Just to be clear, the rich guy's wealth dies with him if you kill him.
bro you gotta just trust me on this one, the extracted surplus value funneled into tangible, trackable capital/value stores immediately vanishes from the material realm when the ideas guy dies :theiss-explanation:
Honestly would be cooler if it did work that way. Stabbing Jeff Bezos to death would be the equivalent of blowing up the big droid ship so all the amazons power down and everyone’s saved
Bezos would drop so much loot that your display freezes and then your GPU fan suddenly spins up to max RPM after five seconds
This would actually be an incredible bit idea in a game. Feel like it would be on brand for borderlands to fake crash your game to show off just how cool killing that last boss was
What you all are missing is that bosses have Metroid rules applied to them. Once you defeat the boss of a corporation, you have to leave before the company self-destructs and all the loot is gone.
The real twist in this is that its literally the rich guy's trolley. He built it. He's rich because it runs people over. And the only reason you're at the control stick at all is because he's already ordered you to kill homeless people (and maybe a few friends and family) before this moment.
Lower one has 5 homeless people who enjoy benefit from your tax money.
WHAT BENEFITS WHAT BENEFITS ARE THERE YOU REDDITOR :matt-jokerfied:
They get to sleep on a tax funded 60 year old park bench with tax funded spikes that pop out after 9pm
They're getting so many benefits that they can't even afford to live under a roof!
"Tax money" barf. As if the state doesn't print money as they want (for the bourgeois) :brrrrrrrrrrrr:
It genuinely makes it hard to even start to talk to these people when they fundamentally misunderstand how these systems work
The greedy rich guy doesn't employ people, his company does. In fact running over the rich guy is the most moral thing to do because it'll make his employees happy, and none of the other options would do that.
Just to be clear, the rich guy's wealth dies with him if you kill him.
lmao, his capital and property just vaporizes into thin air?
Also, even if you’re really such an asshole you believe homeless/unemployed people should die because they “only take without giving back”, you wanna know what class does that but at a rate that’s x10000 the average homeless person?
obviously he's running a Ponzi scheme that will come crashing down when he dies
If his wealth disappears when he dies then that's because he set up some elaborate scheme to destroy his own wealth and prevent it from reaching anyone else. So not only would I still pick him to die I would feel even less guilty about it because fuck that guy.
If there's no employer at the top, all of these machines and warehouses and land and resources will disappear and you'll be homeless you wouldn't want that WOULD YOU?!
looking at the unenclosed commons like "wait but who does the owning?"
So its
- family & friends
- cockroach
- me but without luck
Well thats easy I don't place the life of a single cockroach over humans lives
But the cockroach married a stripper and forced her to pump out babies. If you run him over, what will happen to his harem and their children?!
As we all know, when your boss dies, his large adult son simply says to you "oh no, the jobs have evaporated"
