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by csmeder
5973 days ago
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"My question for reddit: what would you do if you had $20M in the bank?" Thats a hard question, with that kind of money I can't think of any obvious ideas that would have a big impact on humanity. If he had said I have $20 billion heres my ideas: - Make Creative Commons text books. Hire a group of editors and staff that over see super star teachers who write the books. Release them under the CC licence. - Startup Apartment Complex in San Fransisco. Build a large building in San Fransisco with small apartments. Small on size big on quality. Some floors would be modular office space. Subsidize the rent for equity in Startups that move in. - Rethink college: Start a college a new college. It would be like a start up but instead of starting a business your creating a new college. - Create an ethical version of Best Buy. An consumer electronics store that actually puts the customer first and treats it's employees well. The same for an ethical version of Kmart. |
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Hypothetically supposing you were to automate a labor-intensive process in the field of your choice, and market that successfully to 100,000 people saving them each one hour a year, you'd have contributed essentially fifty full-time workers of your chosen profession to the community. Those could be nurses or teachers or priests or what have you.
That is very doable on dollar amounts much, much smaller than $20 million. Plus, the Internet chews up numbers like 100,000 for breakfast.