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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Do you:

Wiggle your toes, helplessly hoping to get free

Or

Wiggle your fingers, helplessly trying to get free

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I thought that was just my constant state of being.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The bag of money should be after all the people tied up on the track, he runs over the people and collects the money

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Lot easier to collect if it's not exploded all over the tracks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually, it's the 0,01%. The doctor or engineer that makes $ 200000 a year is not the enemy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It takes $5.8 million to be part of the 1% in the USA. Do many engineers or doctors have that much?

In Germany at least only if they have their own company and exploit their employees (or inheried wealth), but Germany doesn't treat it's engineers very well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Gotta keep those German engineers humble lest they start getting any ideas

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our of interest is that shared income or personal? I wonder how many people are part of the 1% but their spouse and children aren't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My source doesn't explicitly mention it. But underage children normally don't count in lists like this.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wealth-1-percent-5-8-million-knight-frank-report/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

My favorite version of the choo choo problem is when you can choose to divert the train down the tracks to someone else that has to face the choo choo problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The free market will take care of the problem for us

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately your existence doesn't offer sufficient profit potential. Please report for termination immediately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I will gladly give my life to boost the gdp, sir.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's worked out well so far! /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if self driving cars, where the trolley problem is often used, will try to save the ones that look the most rich.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They will try to brake, and if that's not enough then that's not enough. As interesting as such philosophical discussions are, cars won't be making "decisions on who to kill", that's ridiculous. They will just brake. Same as any other automated machinery, it just stops in case of an emergency.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Elon Musk has his way, they will actively try to run over black people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The car horn makes a fart noise as it bounces over the body without slowing. Other pedestrians dash over in horror. The car's rear printer has littered the street with fliers reading, "a cabal of Jews controls the planet," and, "I cannot believe Grimes left such a smart and handsome guy."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds about right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i mean idegaf so there's no reason they would

;)