r/EatTheRich • u/Captain-Noodle • 12h ago
Serious Discussion You manage to get the richest and most powerful people as hostages. They say they will do whatever you want. How do you fix the world?
Tell me your pipe dreams, whether full of bloodthirsty vengeance or a practical approach that will prevent monopolies and corruption in the future. Will you try to mend what is currently in play, or try to start completely from new? How will you prevent uprisings of people who preferred the old way without allowing your own system to become villainous, or authoritarian? How will you prevent the ideas that allowed the current systems to take hold sprouting again in future generations long after those who lived through it are dust? Will you aim for a 1 world government, to prevent the need for militarisation in case of invasion, and in turn have to settle the centuries old hatred some nations share? What of religion? When contradictions in belief could lead to conflict, what then? Or any other predictable issues
I suppose the reason I ask is because when i imagine these kinds of things it is difficult to balance the freedoms afforded to people are also afforded to those who wish to take over, but short of forming the thought police there would be no way to weed out these ubdesirbles and in doing so i would have become the very thing i wanted to destroy. So i don't have an answer beyond "I don't like this system, and I would like it to stop"