Lenin did this but with a communist revolution
Communists stay winning
They'd forget the parachute and you would be pissed you spent the money.
I'd play that shit on repeat fly months. FFS capitalism, make it happen.
Of course he saw this as a moral failing of society
It is, but not for the reasons he thought
If the growth rate is linear, but that only really seems to be the case with people who work for a living. For the kind of activities that turn millionaires into billionaires, wealth fuels a feedback loop—it takes money to take money.
In any case, this experiment's outcome can be predicted based on the prevalence of the "one-good-idea" super-rich. There are plenty of examples of "super successful people" who absolutely do not "maximize what they have". In spite of all their advantages, every subsequent venture is a failure—see any "start with two million dollars" joke.
The real thetans were the billionaires we blew up with hydrogen bombs along the way.
Atlas Shrugged but it's just a literal refuse heap because no one who does business learned how to take out the trash.
I always liked to think that Atlas Shrugged was the first book of a trilogy and Anthem was the third book. Anthem basically concedes that Galt's Gulch was a total failure and that all the old technology was squandered and lost. The only survivors were these anarcho-primitivist tribes more focused on survival than capitalist expansion. Equality 7-2521 just gets to bare witness to the devastation of the old world and the birth of a new one.
I like it’s ‘air drop’ like everywhere outside of north america and the eurozone is an active battlefield and the only way to go there is via tactical helo insertion
Air drop an American billionaire into Chongqing province with $5 and he'll be John Candy from Volunteers by the end of the week.
then abolish all inheritance over some "$5"-like line with the excess being redistributed to the needy, surely the millionaire failsons will just bootstrap themselves
They didn't specify it has to be on land. I propose the Middle of the Atlantic.
How about the Sentinel Islands, where the native people kill outsiders on sight?
I don't think murderous xenophobia is something to be celebrated
In general, no. But on the other hand, the world would probably have been a better place if indigenous peoples all murdered European explorers on sight so... idk.
I feel like this would be like when the CIA parachuted a ton of dudes into Eastern Europe throughout the late 40s and they were all very quickly discovered and killed.
I was more thinking of John Chau, the Christian Missionary who tried to become the first North Sentinel Island millionaire.
Ja ja, you see, here in Deutschland we say that billionaires are "above" regular "humans": "Über" anderen "Menschen". You might have heard the short form
Libya is almost entirely covered by the Libyan desert, which is a part of the Sahara. Fun fact of the day!
Getting air-dropped into Libya and, in my final moments of dehydrated delusion, declaring that my $5 bill is actually worth a million dollars because of deflation.
when the soil is so :lmayo: that it won't produce anything
Deserts do produce all sorts of things! They are highly diverse and cool habitats filled with spooky and wonderful life that play essential roles in the global biosphere. Not directly mass-producing human food does not equal producing nothing. :meow-cactus:
there's just more life everywhere else
https://i.imgur.com/nNkSJws.png
I also wouldn't call the deserts "diverse", just "different". Diversity is a function of biomass, which is a function of sunlight+water. Deserts are probably about as biodiverse as a temperate grassland, maybe even less
But yes some of the most interesting organisms live in the desert.
