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What would you do with 100 billion dollars to have the most positive impact on the largest number of people? (waveform.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My partner and I were discussing this over dinner, our ideas went from buying up land to finance organic farming and distributing it at the lowest price to crashing the financial system to "reset" everybody's bank account with no possible recovery. Any other ideas?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With 100 billion dollars, I would spend all of it on housing to end homelessness. Let's just provide homes for as many people as possible. All of it would get spent on this if I had my way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

200,000,000,000 / 200,000 = 1 million homes.

There are about 140 million homes in the USA.

You have ~2.5 people per home in the USA.

You would essentially be able to buy everyone living in Chicago or Houston their own home per population.

Chicago, IL (Population: 2,670,406)
Houston, TX (Population: 2,378,146)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think I would rather work with a builder for higher density housing simply because the money could be stretched further. We need to rethink the concept of housing and homes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think you’ve touched on a great point as to how some of the money should be spent - finding the brightest people with the best ideas and adequately funding them. Yet another folly of most billionaires is that they think they have all the answers; if you’re able to eschew that idea then you can really get some serious bang for your buck by not going full-blown Elon with the Captain’s Calls.

[–] VediusPollio -1 points 1 year ago

Bet you could buy a lot of teepees with that money and increase the curb appeal of tent cities.