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You missed the point of the exercise.
What would you do with 50k?
100k?
200k
500k
1M
2M
5M
10, 20, 50, 100, 250M?
500 Millions?
1B?
Then think how many people could have a better life with just a "meager" 50K... if some billionaire were taxed slightly more...
I'm not even talking about the vast majority of earths population that would see their life getting better with fifty bucks here and there.
I didn’t answer your question in the way your script anticipated. I’m not your student.
If your script requires people to not know what they’d do with that much money, and then they do, it’s not a great rebuttal to tell them to stay on-script. That’s some Ray Comfort level rhetoric.
That said, I support far higher taxation of the wealthy. My criticism isn’t of your goal, but that your method is flawed enough to detract from it.
If you didn't get it, this is the reason:
You, and many others, use a multiplayer of 1.000 ; million, billion, trillion.
Those enormous steps exceeds human comprehension.
So use 2 instead.
Have a nice day mr grumpy!
Personally I feel like I could do more good with super PACs by supporting politicians who would help those people and communities by forcing my fellow billionaires to also contribute. I don’t like the system I find myself in, but I don’t want to throw myself into the “Yet you participate in society. Curious!” hole.
Well, lots of people could do that, but are they?
Power corrupts and all that...
Counterargument: think how many of those people could be put out of their misery if the cost of water was increased to $1k/gallon and all other sources of water were removed.