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@return2ozma Let's say I'm a billionaire and I want to help the world.
Firstly declare that I have hoarded too much, and that it is about time to change from leadership to collective guidership.
The surplus values should not be hoarded with me, but shared among the workers.
There would be several focus forward, such as how to move towards moneyless and needs based economy.
I would use the framework of the oakframe to guide forward, and the machineframe to avoid pitfalls.
There are near 800 billionaires in the USA. Assuming all only have $1 billion dollars and it is all invested, applying the "4% rule" gives a sustainable $40 million each per year. With $10 million to personally spend, that gives $24 billion a year for charity and public works.
I failed to find a list of the costs to solve various issues. Homelessness could be solved in a couple years.
The numbers provided are just a starting place. Many problems are extremely expensive. Actually working to solve them would help.
But if you go by net worth Elon alone has like 350-400 billion. Zuckerberg, Buffet, Gates all have many billions. I see where you're coming from but they could really help society, like curing hunger levels of help and the worst part is... They'd still be filthy rich. So as far as quality of life, it wouldn't even cost them anything.
Gates and his ex were helping. They have pledged to spend half their wealth on various humanitary things. They were trying to convince other billionaires to follow suit also. Looks like musk and bezos didn't get the memo
So as far as quality of life, it wouldn't even cost them anything.
That was my point.
Contradiction in terms
I can't even imagine what color the sky would be in that world...