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[–] imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 73 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

About 2 people are dying every second 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 57 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Sorry, but that's not how it works. 3 people die that instant.

[–] imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'll stick with the original scenario and gratefully receive $10,000 for saving a life.

But thank you for your new offer.

[–] HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly this seems like a pretty good representation of how powerful people cope with the consequences of their ambitions.

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[–] remon@ani.social 22 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I would think you random death would just be added to the baseline.

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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The next second 3 people dies, so you were just prolonging one's suffering by 1 second

[–] imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Prolong an inevitable death by one second for $10,000.

Is that stackable?

That is happening everyday, done by thousands of people who could have stopped those deaths readily. Just they are obsessed with more wealth.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The ultra rich:

I'd do it for $10!

[–] VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 46 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago

The bourgeoisie already does that offer, the proletariat can't choose it.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You pay taxes in the US, you've already paid for the random death of people.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago

No.

Also, fuck Mr. Beast. A billionaire proposing yet another Trolley Problem for amusement and engagement bait.

[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

This is an old twilight zone episode. A women is given a box with one button on it and told to press it is she wants the money, but someone she doesn’t even know will die.

She decides the push the button, and then someone comes to collect the button device, saying that it will now be reset and taken to someone else now for the same challenge. Some random person on earth. Implying that she will be the next to die if the button gets pushed.

Frankly not a bad system. Slowly cleanses the selfish from the earth.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 12 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Was the lady told what would happen if she pressed the button?

[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 16 points 2 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 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)

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.

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

$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.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

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.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I'm not killing for money, even if I'm not the one doing the physical part of the execution

[–] E_coli42@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] remon@ani.social 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 32 points 2 weeks ago

-- every billionaire in the world

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll take 0,01 if it ensures that the person who dies is a billionaire

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does the name of that random person rhyme with "rump" or "rootin" ?

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

Those two, and many others, paid to get excluded from the draw. Finances the whole enterprise.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 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

[–] bequirtle@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

if anyone presses the button and I die I'm haunting your stupid ass forever

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] paulcdb@lemmy.world 9 points 2 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 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone just watched The Box lol

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[–] Alandrus_Sun@ttrpg.network 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'd press it at least 500 times. Maybe more, you need to make sure it works and one random death isn't going to make the news. So gotta put in work and press it as many times in one instance. And, I get paid at the end?

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's a life, how much could it cost. $10,000?

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago
[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

That sums up the IQ of Mrbeast fanbase right there, peak irony.

[–] katkit@lemmy.world 6 points 2 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)

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is basically what we living in developed countries are all doing every day.

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.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

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 answer without going through it and deciding.

Ok now lets do billionaires but 100mil and ten thousand people in a far away country dies.

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