That is happening everyday, done by thousands of people who could have stopped those deaths readily. Just they are obsessed with more wealth.
New mrbeast video is dark
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BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The ultra rich:
I’d do it for $10!
VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
We learned during Covid that at least half of the country would kill not some stranger, but their neighbors and friends, and not for ten grand, but to avoid the mild discomfort of wearing a mask and social distancing
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
many of them were willing to kill their own children, and even themselves, to briefly avoid that mild discomfort
theboomr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Still happening too
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Actually, the ultra-rich actively spend money to cause suffering.
AuginTuga34@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’d do that for a dollar!
42firehawk@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
I mean, 3.6 million is a bit more money tbh.
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m poor and would do it for 100.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The bourgeoisie already does that offer, the proletariat can’t choose it.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You pay taxes in the US, you’ve already paid for the random death of people.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
paid, not been paid - that’s a difference, and also not voluntarily. Arguably, those who don’t pay taxes (i.e. took many times 10000) are causing the deaths of millions by their lobbying to become richer.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you are a U.S. corporation you’ve already been paid billion$ for the death of hundreds of random people all across the globe.
Better?
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is an old twilight zone episode.
They decide the push the button, and then someone comes to collect the button device, saying that it will be taken to someone else now for the same challenge. Someone you don’t know, somewhere in the world.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Was the lady told what would happen if she pressed the button?
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes it was clear that someone somewhere in the world “who you don’t even know” would die. The characters have a debate:
“Maybe it’ll be just some Chinese peasant.”
“What if it’s someone’s newborn baby!”
More than anything I’m shocked at the casual dismissal of the Chinese peasant. WTF?
Anyway at the very end of the show the same guy who brought them this dilemma comes to collect the device and he very pointedly uses the same language to say “now it will go to someone new that you don’t even know.”
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Z…
Yes, that somewhere in the world, someone she doesnt know will die.
When Mr. Steward returns to collect the button box after the button is pressed, the lady asks what happens to the box next. She is told it will go to someone else with the same offer, with assurances that the new recipient will not know who she is. As the previous commenter said, the wording deeply implies she would be the certain “someone” targeted by the next button press.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The dilemma is “would you push a button for money” not “would you push a button knowing what it did for money”
Folstar@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
There’s this cool new thing where you can search for stuff on the Internet. You should check it out. To answer your question, yes - en.wikipedia.org/…/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Z…
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
She got $20,000 if I’m not mistaken. In '80s money.
Also it was originally meant to kill her husband. They changed it for the show.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
$200,000 - which if you consider that it was 1980s money, makes Mr. Beast’s $10,000 look very small.
By “originally meant to” I think you are referring to the short story it was based on ending that way.
A despondent Norma asks the stranger why her husband was the one who was killed. The stranger replies, “Do you really think you knew your husband?” strongly disapproved of the Twilight Zone version, especially the new ending
Frankly I find the twilight zone ending more chilling and suspenseful. The “do you think you really knew your husband” line is kinda sad trombone.
billwashere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m assuming the device gets passed on regardless if the button is pressed. If that’s the case, does it have any correlation to selfishness getting punished? Me living or dying has to do with the NEXT person being selfish, not whether I was selfish or not. Unless I’m missing something
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I believe the idea is that if you push the button, it goes on to someone else. If they DON’T push the button, they get skipped. It goes to someone else besides them. And so on, until SOMEONE does push the button. And at that point, the last person who pushed the button gets iced.
And so in that way, every person who pushes the button inevitably gets killed, removing selfish people from the world while morally upright people get passed over.
lobut@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m an 80s kid but I skipped the old Twilight episodes … so I’m trying to darnest to catch up on them and I’m learning how awesome the ideas were even if the presentation is dated.
Just a random segue …
I sound naive but I didn’t realize that Rod Sterling wanted to tell stories about social issues – racism and stuff but the networks wouldn’t let him. If he wanted to tell a story about an alien or an invader then the networks would let it pass through. So it was a way for him to tell harder stories to the general public.
I think that’s a lot of sci-fi like Invasion of the Body Snatcher and such but I just never thought about it deeply enough.
There’s the treehouse of horror episode by the Simpsons where Bart is omnipotent and I knew it was based on something but I only recently learned it from: “It’s a Good Life” which is a book and a Twilight Zone episode. I only watched the parody up until this year and I just thought it was a fun concept. Then I watched the original and a breakdown and it was a take on totalitarian regimes.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah some of them are little moral parables and some are just setups for a thrill/shock twist.
This “button” episode was actually from the 80s reboot of TZ, not the Rod Serling original.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No.
Also, fuck Mr. Beast. A billionaire proposing yet another Trolley Problem for amusement and engagement bait.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jokes aside, no. I don’t think I’d do it for $100 million. I seriously don’t.
The justifications y’all are providing don’t work for me. Maybe it’s because I have a son, and I can imagine he would be the one to die, then I remember everyone is the child of someone, or the friend, etc.
I will not be the knowing cause of the death of some random person just for money. You guys can have it. No, thank you.
Taldan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
$100 million brings you into a different philosophical debate. $100 million is more than enough that you could use the money to save at least a few lives
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If the whole 100M was spent on saving lives, no contest.
What if you just kept back $50 for a nice meal out? Is that meal cursed?
E_coli42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You could save way more than 1 life with $100M. Malaria nets save on average one life for every $3k donated. Child deworming doesn’t save a life per se, but you can stop a child from being permanently disabled for ~$500.
ddplf@szmer.info 3 weeks ago
Sacrificing a person in order to help a number of people survive for a month or a year is still a terribly bad calculation if you ask me
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah I’m not killing for money, even if I’m not the one doing the physical part of the execution
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Bro, for 100 million, if you told me the button would kill me, I would press it, after writing my will first.
That is almost world-chaning money, so I would be ethicaly obligated from my perspective to press it.
1984@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Im the same way. If someone gave me a gun and gave me a choice to shoot myself or a stranger, I would shoot myself.
Mostly because I believe what we do matters. Many dont.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I would in a heartbeat. I would keep 5k for myself, 10k for my parents. And donate the rest to cleaning up the environment, and curing cancer/diabetes. That would save more people.
ddplf@szmer.info 3 weeks ago
Still pennies compared to the damage we make to the environment any single day
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Can I only use it once?
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
-- every billionaire in the world
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I’ll take 0,01 if it ensures that the person who dies is a billionaire
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The more often you’d press it, the higher your chances! Good luck, we’re counting on you!
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Yes. In fact I’ll keep at it until Mr Beast is the one who drops dead. It’s not about the money, but the principle of the thing.
ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
this is the right answer, you’ve just won 10 grand!
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Huh. I expected that to take longer.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Does the name of that random person rhyme with “rump” or “rootin” ?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Those two, and many others, paid to get excluded from the draw. Finances the whole enterprise.
desra@lemmy.vg 3 weeks ago
the only way i’m ever pushing a stupid ass button like that is if hunger gets solved or manufactured housing scarcity disappears, and i’m the only one that dies.
tf is wrong with some of you?
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
No.
Counter proposition: for every €10 I pay, a random fascist dies. I’m willing to spend all my money, and am willing to take gifts from others to continue paying more amounts of €10 for as long as I have any. I’ll even spend €100 to prioritize highly influential fascists first.
DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The monkey’s paw curls. The word fascist has become so debased that you are now $80 billion in debt. And dead.
bequirtle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
if anyone presses the button and I die I’m haunting your stupid ass forever
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
He’d do anything for attention, so I could see this video happening in future if he felt that social media would support him
paulcdb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not sure I can answer that yet.
So what I’d suggest is sending me 10k and i’ll see if I take. However I’d also suggest we do multiple runs just to confirm consistency. I hear 100 times is a good number for checking consistencies.
radiouser@crazypeople.online 3 weeks ago
Someone just watched The Box lol
dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I immediately thought of this as well and am irked that now I remember this terrible film
NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That sums up the IQ of Mrbeast fanbase right there, peak irony.
Alandrus_Sun@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
I’d press it at least 500 times.
Chivera@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a life, how much could it cost. $10,000?
sundray@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is basically what we living in developed countries are all doing every day.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I don’t know about you, but I don’t have enough in the end of taking care of myself to feed a person elsewhere but the 1% sure as fuck do.
katkit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s the premise of the Twilight Zone episode “Button, Button”. After she pressed it, the man making the deal said he’d go to “a random person on Earth” offering the same to them (implying that the person being killed will be the one who pushed the button earlier in the chain)
Joeffect@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s always the last person who pressed the button dies that’s how this works and the part they never tell you about.
So yes you could press the button and live until someone else presses the button.
But you’re betting on no one pressing the button after you. Are you willing to take that risk?
razzazzika@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Break the button, save a murderers life but stop the cycle of violcence.
Avicenna@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
In my current situation (ok economically but not without worries), wouldn’t fucking take a million, nor a billion for that matter. It is not like all my consumption habits are %100 devoid of someone else’s suffering or maybe even death, indirectly. But having a vague idea about bad effects of consumption habits vs knowing it will be a direct cause of death is two completely different things imo. On the otherhand if my life or a loved one’s life depends on that money, that is a harder question and I don’t think I can really know the answe withiut going through it and deciding.
Ok now lets to do billionaires but 100mil and ten thousand people in a far away country dies.
bebabalula@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
This is the trolley problem on steroids tbh. I have $10.000 in my savings. I could use them to save a whole lot more than one life! Yet I don’t. At face value this is no different from accepting the money and a rando kicks the bucket.
dragnucs@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Since people are already dying at random I would take it. Given they do not actively enforce the dying part.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Every time I pet my cat, a random stranger somewhere in the world dies. There’s 8 billion people in the world, at least a few hundred are born and die every minute.
imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
About 2 people are dying every second anyway regardless, so if i don’t take the money, 2 people die.
Im actually saving a life by briefly capping the death rare at 1.
petersr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sorry, but that’s not how it works. 3 people die that instant.
imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The original scenario stipulates a single death.
I graciously accept saving a life and receiving $10,000.
Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Nuh-huh
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I would think you random death would just be added to the baseline.
imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
that was not a stipulation.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t know, I better take the money I think…
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The next second 3 people dies, so you were just prolonging one’s suffering by 1 second
imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Prolong an inevitable death by one second for $10,000.
Is that stackable?