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There are 9 million millionaires in America. If each of them commmitted just $67,000 it would exceed Musk's budget...by a factor of 100! iow each millionaire
by logicallee 13y ago
There are 9 million millionaires in America. If each of them commmitted just $67,000 it would exceed Musk's budget...by a factor of 100!
iow each millionaire would have to commit just $670. Wow.
We need a kickstarter for millionaires, and oh btw everyone could join even without being a millionaire. And it could be open world-wide.
Why not do this?
It seems somehow more reasonable than a $6B Indiegogo project.... (Which would be hilarious.)
- svmegatron 13y agoKickstarter for millionaires, but you don't have to be a millionaire. I think that's what kickstarter already is.
- danielweber 13y agoThere are an infinite number of things that could be super-awesome if only everyone just donated $X to them.
- tehwalrus 13y agoUmm... If you have a way to get 9 million people to agree on something, why aren't you president of a small European country yet? Also, if you think it's easy to get $6,700 out of a millionaire, perhaps you aren't understanding why they're millionaires.
- danielweber 13y agoBut think of all the cool tings I could do if they just gave me their money.
- logicallee 13y agoOh, man, President of a small European country! Think of all the fun I could have micromanaging infrastructural decisions, educational expenditures of a developing economy, etc. It's like a Sim game, only it's all day every day for years. Why would I want to do this again?
- smacktoward 13y agoMeh, depending on the whims of billionaires doesn't scale. What we need is some kind of system to collect tiny amounts of money from everybody, aggregate it, and use it to build important infrastructure that would benefit all but is too expensive for any one of us (even billionaires!) to afford on our own. We could call it "government."