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Most of these hypotheticals are pretty lame. Like... Why would I care if another person got the same amount as me? I would only care if everyone got the same amount because that would cause massive inflation and now my million dollars is worthless.
Even if everyone got the same amount, I would just press the button every week - and now I've YOLO implemented a form of Universal Basic Income.
I'd invent a machine that hits the button 1000 times a second and after a bunch of hours I'd buy Tesla, Amazon, Google and Apple and so on and turn them into companies profitable for humanity.
But first I'd buy some ice-cream.
What options could I place before I press the button?
Everyone's money won't mean much. Welcome to being poor, billionaries.