Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?

Post by pwoods » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 5:31 PM UTC

biohacker42 wrote: post #34

sfamiliar wrote: post #4

give $11,000 to each of the 62 million households in the u.s. making under $50,000. watch the ensuing chaos with glee.

$50K is a lot of money! Can any household still be considered poor with $49K a year?

Post by floozyspeak » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 5:36 PM UTC

Post by sdurkin » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 5:43 PM UTC

Post by boredguy8 » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 5:44 PM UTC

rsheridan6 wrote: post #48

I'd buy a sovereign country and break it up into city-states, and allow them to compete with each other as an experiment to see which policies and forms of government are the most effective. It would be kind of like Pokemon for social science geeks. You could have libertaritopia, commietopia, fascistopia, etc, and you'd get to see what happens. For motivational purposes, after 50 years I would have barbarian hordes b…

Post by steveplace » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 5:44 PM UTC

ph0rque wrote: post #15

no_body wrote: post #6

I would bootstrap the asteroid mining economy, invest in micro-terraforming and nano-technology so that each asteroid could become it's own self sufficient republic. Yay Anarchy !

>...each asteroid could become it's own self sufficient republic. Yay Anarchy! That's not anarchy, since each republic would presumably have its own government.