Rick Adams

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• Fentex commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
  Lose the billions. They are unnecessary for happiness and in this experiment a positive detriment to living well. Live with a few tens of millions and rest easy from the threat to billionaires, and if climate change scares you expend the wealth you need to discard on efforts to resolve it....
• opsec commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
  There's a Sci-Fi already written about this (from Germany) http://www.andreaseschbach.de/werke/romane/billion/billion.html...
• bertiebond commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
  Although I hate his books (his writing style is as exciting as a 15 year old GCSE student) Dan Brown's Inferno probably is a good short cut way to explain what I want to achieve. A significant proportion of the worlds problems - pollution, conflict, resource scarcity, Global warming, poverty etc - is in someway influenced by TOO MANY PEOPLE. Can't kill em all. And like hell voluntary family planning education is efficient enough. Enforced sterility on a world wide scale. Use my billions to pay for research That or spend it all training/cyber-upgrading myself into the ultimate assassin ninja...
• Gerald Fnord commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
  Investments, whether in fiat money or any other, also get tricky: Selling-off any substantial amount of what you've got would likely cause a change in value of whatever you didn't sell. The coupling between the monetary value of investments and—I'll call it the 'effective value'—would seem to 'run' for high values, decreasing. (See: 'running coupling constant'.)...
• LAvery commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
  An interesting read relevant to this post (although Abigail Disney is probably not in the $100G range). What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend...