We’re talking actions limited to something one human could achieve - so not wishes, but could be something amazing or rare like “become president”

  • nytrixus@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Any cause I desire to see go through, will go through and we’ll have a positive change in the world from it.

  • olmec@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I would do the same thing I do with rare, single use items in video games (Think the Master Ball). I would save it indefinitely in case there is a time that I really need it in the future. I would die having never used it.

    • waz@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      There are a select couple I would like to inconvenience, but it is highly unlikely they will care about my death at all.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Become governor and Make Florida Freaky Again. Unwind the gerrymandering. Install my cabinet of freaky progressive politicians who want the state to have clean beaches, public transportation and less need to drive. More tax money to clean up our mess, and stop fighting people who just want to be themselves. Expand Medicare. Just work to bring balance to the force in general.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Well I’ve never done a single thing toward this effort, but when I was a kid I wanted to have a unit of measure named after me. Like James Watt, Alessandro Volta, or Ted Megabyte.

  • kylie_kraft@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    right now, it would be to quit the medicine that I have been taking for almost ten years that I suspect has turned on me suddenly and is giving me a host of debilitating side effects. I’m scared of what could happen when/if I go off it (I am waiting for the doctor’s permission), but I’m fucking terrified of what could happen if I keep taking it. god, I really fucking hope that I’m right on this one.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    5 months ago

    I’m about to participate in a medical study. Hopefully the treatment is so successful that it cures me and everyone else suffering the same and similar conditions. And hopefully I’m not part of the control group.

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Honestly? Petition the government to establish a tax function that starts at 0% and approaches 100% the more income you make. So by the time you’re making like 5 million a year, that 5 millionth dollar is taxed at like 99.9%. And make that a fucking constitutional amendment, so rich assholes couldn’t change it. And make it illegal to use your stock as collateral for a loan, or just consider loans as income. And capital gains count. Basically guarantee that the 1% actually pay into the system they take so much from.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I would petition the government to make lobbyism illegal. Maybe this could be the start for cracking down on corruption more successfully…

    • Soulcreator@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      One of the big issues I see with that proposal is that at some point, due to inflation an annual income in the ball park of 5 million dollars a year will be considered ‘middle class’. And then the average person will be hit with substantial taxes from a then archaic tax law.

      At that point you’ll need a constitutional amendment to shift the goal post which is nearly impossible to do such. (At least at this moment in time it is.)

      At that point the budget would likely have finally balanced itself out due to the higher tax rates. So of course there will probably be politicians arguing against making this change as it will effectively kill the federal budget, because shifting the tax laws will mean the government will be taking in substantially less.

      It’s a super well intentioned idea at the moment but it’s really a disaster in the making for a future generation.

      • cabbage@piefed.social
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        5 months ago

        Progressive tax is normal in most functional countries, it’s not rocket science.

        Basically you define X as a base sum that needs to be controlled for inflation. Minimum wage can be 2X, whereas 100% taxation might be reached at an income of 300X. In this scenario, nobody could earn more than 150 times minimum wage, and manipulating the calculation of X to make the rich richer would also benefit everyone else.

        A bigger challenge is that billionaire scum tend not to have income, only loans, so they don’t pay tax at all. But that’s also easily fixed if there’s political will.