Great level of hypocrisy, well that's quite realistic. The United States may soon become a second Gotham...
Let me get this straight; this guy was born into the richest family in Gotham. He has enough wealth that he can singlehandedly fund infrastructure changes, public healthcare, mental health resources, social services and rehabilitation. Instead, he uses his money to dress up like a bat so he can beat the shit out of people - and he's supposed to be the hero??
May be in the fictional universe of Batman he attempts to be morally good, but I believe that there is no morally good billionaire regardless of the circumstances, so it seems to me an attempt to justify them in some particular cases, yet I think that it cannot hold that such concentration of power and resources can be morally good in a whole society ethos, the good tyrant only rises by unplanned luck and resolves immediately in wise redistribution, it cannot sustain in time.
Meh, if I had a billion or two, I'd keep at least one billion, just to be safer from the other billionaires. That way, I have war money I guess.
I'd spend most of my money just on medical checkups, therapists, coaches, I would pay a maid, get into some elite fitness program, go to an university, and whatever time is left, I'd go around helping directly. I'd strategically target entire areas to try and convince people to go solar, permaculture, etc. I don't see anything better to do with my life.
I would probably actually try an experiment with building a city out in the sea, the thing Peter Thiel claims he wants, but actually do it, in order to do a social experiment to see what happens when people have something like UBI, free healthcare, education, etc. They idea would be that hopefully, investing in people in this way would pay itself back.
I would initially do the experimental city as an Eve Online styled MMO - but with multiple servers, each with a specific type of government and economic rule. After a couple years of letting each server's population fill up and learn their niche, create a 'hub' server, where players of the OG servers can start with a territory and compete. Doing it this way, it would make it easier to remove outside factors like geography, pre-existing wealth, unfamiliarity with UBI, and so forth.
The way I figure, it would be easier to track success and population metrics with a wholly artificial reality, then use the insights from that to inform how to structure a realworld UBI Island.
Yeah bbbbbuut he's got a code.
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