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A child is about to die. To save it, you must cast a magic spell that increases total global unemployment by 0.01%. This problem is repeated over and over. Would there ever come a point where you allow the child to die in order to prevent unemployment raise by 0.01%?

I let child die round 1
58.6%
Eventually yes
23.2%
No, never
18.1%

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11:37 AM · Jan 30, 2018

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and to those voting 'eventually, yes,' about how many children would you save?

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200% unemployment would be an awesome social experiment

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Is it the same child each time, because maybe mother is trying tell me something

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Cast it a thousand times and destroy capitalism forever.

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The global population will soon unemployed AND thankful. I am now the king of the world, none of them have anything to do but fulfill my wishes, which include keeping *some* factories running and distribution chains working. If someone does not obey, I let their children die.

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Where's the "Immediately" option?

funemployed cat stepdad

@odd_dimensions

Jan 30, 2018

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@Aella_Girl

I cast it 10,000 times. No human ever has to work again. Robots take over. Humanity begins a new golden age of art, science, and leisure. I'm reviled as a villain until the singularity, when our AI overlords erect my statue on every offworld colony.

PanDeism: An Anthology

@Pandeism

Jan 30, 2018

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@Aella_Girl

I would immediately presume that I am living in some kind of simulation, to have been placed at a precipice of having the power to make such a precise choice. And so, neither the child nor the potentially unemployed people are real.

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#badcalculations #butterflyeffect

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What an absurd poll question!