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If you press the button, the bottom 50% of people in the world by net wealth become "happy with what they have" - while they might still try to earn more to sustain current needs, they have no deep unhappiness or envy, no feelings of injustice. They become materially at peace.

Would press the button
64.4%
Would not press button
35.6%

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12:25 AM · Jan 30, 2021

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People need to realize that the bottom 50% make like $3 a day

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Not sure this is real ethics but I’m pretty skeeved about fucking with peoples’ brains without consent

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Nice try rich people.

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Tfw I can't tell if I want to or not because of the ethics of not paying them more and them not caring is playing on my mind.

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If you press the button, society stagnates. Throughout history, humans have fought to better themselves, to learn, to educate and to progress. Without that desire, there is no progress, and no challenge to change things for the better.

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No feelings of injustice? So the top 50% earners in the world could continually exploit them to their heart's content.

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I never choose to push the button on these experiments. What right would I have to decide the behavior of people in these experiments?

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Jan 30, 2021

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@Aella_Girl

Society will adapt: identify the bottom 50% and deprive them of everything in favor of the top fifty. The bottom fifty will become the happiest of slaves.

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This would last all of 23 minutes unless this button is also lobotomizing people