Current Events > All disease is cured but every adult living in the 1st world has to pay $1000

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SomeGuyUO
01/22/18 12:44:15 AM
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Yay or nay
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Unsugarized_Foo
01/22/18 12:48:59 AM
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GG economy
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hockeybub89
01/22/18 12:50:31 AM
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These type of theft by big government is unacceptable.
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DiegoSanchez206
01/22/18 12:50:38 AM
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Cant wait to see the homeless cackheads pay 1k
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Shotgunnova
01/22/18 12:51:08 AM
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Pay $1000 to me? Sure.
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Mal_Fet
01/22/18 1:03:28 AM
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What if not every adult in the first world has $1000

Like homeless people; how do they pay
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pikachupwnage
01/22/18 1:07:00 AM
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Is this a one time cure or is all disease just gone?

But yes I would love to not have allergies, headaches, hernias, wisdom teeth, etc.
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Aristoph
01/22/18 1:08:49 AM
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Kinda curious what would happen if this were somehow shown to be possible.

Like humanity was shown that all disease could be eliminated with certainty. And equally shown that the only way to achieve it was for every human adult in a first-world country who was alive exactly 1 year from today would have had to pay $1000 by that date. So we'd all have a single year to get every living adult $1000 and get them to the payment location.

Would everyone start giving their money to the poor people to get them to pay it? Or would people start forming gangs and go out to kill anybody who hadn't paid yet? Or would the world just go "welp, that sucks. I guess we're just gonna have to deal with diseases like we always have"?
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LordFarquad1312
01/22/18 1:09:28 AM
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Deal.
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cuttin_in_farm
01/22/18 1:10:51 AM
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Aristoph posted...
Kinda curious what would happen if this were somehow shown to be possible.

Like humanity was shown that all disease could be eliminated with certainty. And equally shown that the only way to achieve it was for every human adult in a first-world country who was alive exactly 1 year from today would have had to pay $1000 by that date. So we'd all have a single year to get every living adult $1000 and get them to the payment location.

Would everyone start giving their money to the poor people to get them to pay it? Or would people start forming gangs and go out to kill anybody who hadn't paid yet? Or would the world just go "welp, that sucks. I guess we're just gonna have to deal with diseases like we always have"?


Hollywood got its new idea.
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Gamer99z
01/22/18 1:11:09 AM
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Many people in the world don't have 1000 and without any disease overpopulation would become a major issue.

No.
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Leanaunfurled
01/22/18 1:15:22 AM
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Maybe the super rich people will have the option to divide on the homeless people and pay it for them.
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Mal_Fet
01/22/18 1:16:34 AM
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cuttin_in_farm posted...
Aristoph posted...
Kinda curious what would happen if this were somehow shown to be possible.

Like humanity was shown that all disease could be eliminated with certainty. And equally shown that the only way to achieve it was for every human adult in a first-world country who was alive exactly 1 year from today would have had to pay $1000 by that date. So we'd all have a single year to get every living adult $1000 and get them to the payment location.

Would everyone start giving their money to the poor people to get them to pay it? Or would people start forming gangs and go out to kill anybody who hadn't paid yet? Or would the world just go "welp, that sucks. I guess we're just gonna have to deal with diseases like we always have"?


Hollywood got its new idea.

Seems kinda contrived. Like, what sort of circumstance would make it so every person must individually pay $1000 toward this?

Seems more like the world governments would accrue the funds for it, not each and every person over 18.
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Eaglerulez
01/22/18 1:17:27 AM
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Would probably devolve into a significant portion of the people wondering why the rest of the world wasn't paying "their fair share"
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Zeus
01/22/18 1:18:34 AM
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Mal_Fet posted...
cuttin_in_farm posted...
Aristoph posted...
Kinda curious what would happen if this were somehow shown to be possible.

Like humanity was shown that all disease could be eliminated with certainty. And equally shown that the only way to achieve it was for every human adult in a first-world country who was alive exactly 1 year from today would have had to pay $1000 by that date. So we'd all have a single year to get every living adult $1000 and get them to the payment location.

Would everyone start giving their money to the poor people to get them to pay it? Or would people start forming gangs and go out to kill anybody who hadn't paid yet? Or would the world just go "welp, that sucks. I guess we're just gonna have to deal with diseases like we always have"?


Hollywood got its new idea.

Seems kinda contrived. Like, what sort of circumstance would make it so every person must individually pay $1000 toward this?

Seems more like the world governments would accrue the funds for it, not each and every person over 18.


Well, countless movies are needlessly contrived >_>
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Aristoph
01/22/18 1:18:47 AM
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Mal_Fet posted...

Seems kinda contrived. Like, what sort of circumstance would make it so every person must individually pay $1000 toward this?

Seems more like the world governments would accrue the funds for it, not each and every person over 18.


Eh, maybe it's an alien race that has decided we're only worthy of being saved if we can work together as a unified whole to accomplish it? A test of sorts.
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Knowledge_King
01/22/18 11:18:15 AM
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Every adult in the 1st world can get $1000 in little to no time. That's not an excuse to not pay for something like this. Literally doing yard work or working fast food would get you that in less than a month.
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anth0ny
01/22/18 11:22:00 AM
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why should I have to pay for everyone else's disease? /libertarianism
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
01/22/18 11:22:40 AM
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Knowledge_King posted...
Every adult in the 1st world can get $1000 in little to no time. That's not an excuse to not pay for something like this. Literally doing yard work or working fast food would get you that in less than a month.


At 7.15 an hour, 40 hours a week, you still don't hit 1000 bucks.

Edit: I did my math wrong. You get 1144. ( I did 120 hours, not 160) but you still have to pay taxes on it which will make it less than 1000.
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averagejoel
01/22/18 11:24:56 AM
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Leanaunfurled posted...
Maybe the super rich people will have the option to divide on the homeless people and pay it for them.

but obviously they won't do it
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FLUFFYGERM
01/22/18 11:26:52 AM
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This is actually an interesting concept raised in a book I was reading yesterday. A book called Adaptive Markets by Andrew Lo.

One of the premises towards the end is that we could easily establish what he calls Super Funds / Mega Funds. Essentially, a massive crowd funding effort to amass some absurd sum like $300 billion that would be invested into a massive global fund. The fund would be dedicated solely to curing cancer, with investments going into any and every promising idea that might potentially cure cancer. That way we all share in the risk of any single investment, and the gains of any successful solutions that might emerge.

His argument was that we could easily amass that much money if we wanted to, and that it could be entrusted to experienced biotech investors and wealth managers. And that it'd be enough to guarantee that we get one or two cures for cancer.

And he was saying how we could then reinvest that massive fund into other ventures afterwards. And establish more of these funds, for any goal we have.
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DoctorVader
01/22/18 11:27:50 AM
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This would get accomplished pretty fast I think. Lots of rich people would pay to live longer and would easily gather up $1 trillion needed for this (first world population is around 1 billion iirc).
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Ben111
01/22/18 11:28:45 AM
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Good. Then people can stop injecting themselves with aluminum, msg, formalyde, and mercury in the form of vaccines
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Kineth
01/22/18 11:30:19 AM
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What's the catch?
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averagejoel
01/22/18 11:38:28 AM
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fenderbender321 posted...
anth0ny posted...
why should I have to pay for everyone else's disease? /libertarianism


Libertarians don't ask why they should have to pay. They ask why they should be forced to pay.

is it just me or are those two questions the same thing
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Kineth
01/22/18 11:40:57 AM
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averagejoel posted...
fenderbender321 posted...
anth0ny posted...
why should I have to pay for everyone else's disease? /libertarianism


Libertarians don't ask why they should have to pay. They ask why they should be forced to pay.

is it just me or are those two questions the same thing


Yeah, it's also a completely false statement.
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anth0ny
01/22/18 12:11:09 PM
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110% true statement
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