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I just sold a company for 40 million USD.

What do you even do with that sort of moderate influence?

It's too little to build (or crash) world economies, and I'm too indecisive to invest a single dime in a publicly traded company. No, scratch that. I'll never invest a god-damn scent-of-sent in their game.

What the fuck man, what do I even do with this?

I just sold a company for 40 million USD. What do you even do with that sort of moderate influence? It's too little to build (or crash) world economies, and I'm too indecisive to invest a single dime in a publicly traded company. No, scratch that. I'll never invest a god-damn scent-of-sent in their game. What the fuck man, what do I even do with this?

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[–] smallpond 1 points (+1|-0)

Maybe if I had nothing else to do, I might focus on the 'tragedy of the commons' ie. investigating how humans can work together societally to be smarter than isolated individuals, rather than stupider. Given this successful company thing, perhaps you already know a bit about that.

If you want to consider a variety of big-picture ideas https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ might be worth a browse.

That's actually a really thoughtful answer. I've never bought into the idea of long-term success in high-density populations though. Which is not to say it can't happen, just that everyone has to have a really big carrot to chase, and humans tend to compete for limited resources even while there's still enough to go around. (we can thank Nash for that mindset, at least in the corporate world)

Given this successful company thing, perhaps you already know a bit about that.

And by the way, I am very much playing pretend about the whole "im rich" thing, but I did briefly study Lloyd in school. Of course they tried to use his whole philosophy as an argument for authoritarian government (socialist or otherwise), while I saw it as a compelling argument why natural selection must be allowed to take its course.