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16 (32%)

Green

8 (16%)

Peace and Freedom

2 (4%)

Democratic

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Transhumanist

11 (22%)

Libertarian

8 (16%)

Republican

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Total Members Voted: 49

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The button only works on fiat currency.

[Darvi]

I redefine "fiat currency" to include any kind of resource and hit it with the power of a souped-up jackhammer.

[Gervassen]

Pretty much. If you're going to actually hurt your opponent, you want to fucking hurt them.

There are a lot of fights where you would want to be thought a respectable human being afterward, and most are about women somehow. You'd be surprised how many fist-fights still happen because of women. Been in some myself, but only because I'm so handsome I get their boyfriends jealous. True story, actually.

[da_nang]

So if I press the button, I don't have to be poor anymore?

* da_nang presses the button

[RedWarrior0]

Button is open to abuse. Press. Buy expensive stuff. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Press. Store money in offshore bank account. Lather, rinse, repeat.

[da_nang]

Question: Is it possible to get the wealth in hard cash upon button pressing?

[Lagslayer]

The nature of the button's powers needs a more detailed explanation.

Regardless of it's specific details, I don't think I'd end up using it, both because it would cause massive chaos and because I don't like manipulating people like this. However, I would still hold onto it and store it very carefully, so that it's secrets may be unlocked.

[Graknorke]

Use it to aid the power of glorious British terrorism warfare.

[Lectorog]

I, being a capitalist pig, would destroy the button, as it is far too dangerous to monetize.

[hops]

i'd probably use it on U.S.A, Africa, and China.
I would be unaffected in term of  wealth, although there would probably be drastic economy shift.

i have a feeling, though, that money would probably flow back to the riches in U.S.A again because they were rich because they know how to use money. and the same goes for most chinese businessmen.

[Powder Miner]

I'd not use it, and I'd wreck it.
I am another conservative pig, and I don't feel that redistribution of wealth like this is economically sound. At all.
With the way our government and our market (and by this I mean nearly every country in the world, but specifically America) is structured, it depends upon people owning businesses and having a hierarchy of who is over who.
Suddenly, those at the top can't afford to run the larger businesses. Investors can't afford to invest as heavily in businesses, because they only have a middle amount of money. Suddenly, those at the bottom no longer need to have the bad jobs they're forced to take.
Businesses find themselves rent apart, as even if people decide to keep their jobs, the business can't hold itself together monetarily. These businesses collapse. Noone except possibly a very lucky few have jobs. But hey, they've got as much money as everyone else, so it'll be fine, right?
Wrong.
Because the suppliers of goods are no longer in working order. The transporters of goods are no longer in working order. The retailers of goods are no longer in working order.
RIP actually getting things.
RIP economy.
Countries are interlaced quite heavily when it comes to the economy.
R.I.P. world economy.
...so yeah I'd break that button.

But let's suppose I don't quite know what I'm talking about here. Suppose businesses still stay afloat.
People are still going to be pissed, things are certainly going to get majorly bungled in response, legislation will likely have to be passed in droves, and things still won't be good.

[Graknorke]

Surely it would just end up with everybody being the rich investors until things settled down into a hierarchy again. It's not like people would just hang onto the money.

[Dutchling]

I'd cross the border to Belgium, press the button, and see what happens.

[SalmonGod]

I would press the button first thing every morning.  Some shit would go down, but it would be figured out before long.  I don't buy into the notion that without a handful of people wielding power over everyone else that nothing can get done.  In fact, I think we'd accomplish more, because we'd be doing things that are actually important to us, instead of things that are important only to the powerful.

Of course, other means of developing hierarchy would still be around, since this button only effects fiat currency, but it would still be nice to topple the million mile high ladder we have currently built upon that pretext.

[Baffler]

I see this ending with people with resources jumping ship FAST, and poor people flocking to the country. Assuming people realize what has happened, anyway. If it affects the whole WORLD on the other hand...

It's an interesting thought experiment, but I don't think I would push it. Nor would I destroy it, because it could have potential to do some good. Maybe if people in some country agree to be communist I would go there and press it daily. See how things go from there.