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[–] 73 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 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.

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  • [–] 57 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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

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

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  • [–] 47 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    The ultra rich:

    I'd do it for $10!

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    [–] 43 points 5 months ago

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

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago

    No.

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

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (23 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.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (13 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months 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.”

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months 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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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    $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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    [–] 28 points 5 months ago (11 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 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.

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

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    [–] 13 points 5 months 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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    [–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

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

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 10 points 5 months 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

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Someone just watched The Box lol

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    [–] 9 points 5 months 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months 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?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

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

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months 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)

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)
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    That sums up the IQ of Mrbeast fanbase right there, peak irony.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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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    [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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

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