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You have 300billion dollars to use for the good of the country/planet. What do you do? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by gi1242 to c/asklemmy

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[–] gi1242 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

here are a few ideas I had:

invest / subsidized green tech
lobby to stop oil and gas subsidies
lobby to stop meat subsidies
lobby for stricter environmental taxes and regulations.
subsidize repair services so that it's cheaper for people to fix things instead of buying new
offer bad politicians a lot of money to resign
buy companies that provide essential services (water gas net) and make them non profits
do the same to things like Uber Facebook Google, and make ads optional
make public transit free
make affordable healthcare
set up a charity with whatever's left. withdraw 4% a year and split evenly it between to anyone who asks for it

[–] Serinus 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

with whatever's left

Heh, several of your bullets can eat that full amount.

[–] gi1242 1 points 1 week ago

welp. if I ever become president then there goes the national debt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The lobbying stuff seems sensible.

The market cap of Alphabet/Google alone is an order of magnitude larger than your budget.

Offering bad politicians lots of money is probably a bad precedent. Also, depending on your definition, there's potentially a lot of them.

Free public transit, healtchcare are also significantly bigger than your budget.

So since that doesn't work - how about you buy a social media network, and get chummy with the corrupt candidate for president you push, then be part of a commission to destroy most sensible parts of the federal government. Also, build a creepy compound for all your children and their mothers.