Poll: If You Could Take One Cent From Everyone In the World.

[omega 616]

I know you factored in the people without money but I don't think you factored in enough. Millions of people in Africa have no money, let alone the homeless people in the world etc say there 7 billion in the world, 5 billion have money ... at my guess anyway.

I would still do it, why not? Nobody would miss a penny, most people would give you a penny anyway! I bet you could walk around your town and ask every person you met to give you a penny, every person with money on them would.

It's a penny, you can't even buy a penny sweet with that! (not even joking)

5,000,000,000 people with .01 dollars = 50,000,000 dollars. Or fifty million. Greater than what the OP said would be a rough estimate for money (he said 40 million).

I know, my comment was more for clarity as opposed to accuracy or correcting him.

I kind of hate money threads like this, they always make think "if I had that money I would ...." then the crushing reality sets in afterwards that I am a broke ass 22 year old with no job .... fuck reality right in the face!

 

[That_Sneaky_Camper]

I wouldn't take money from everybody, but I'd take it from everyone who wouldn't miss it. I'm sure there are countries where every tiny scrap of money you can get would be valuable. Even just taking money from people who wouldn't even noticed the loss, you'd end up pretty darn rich.

Say I ended up with 40 million, I'd give away 10 million to assuage my guilty conscience, use 15 million to secure my family's financial situation for the rest of our lives, and use the rest of the money to start my own business and employ some folk.

This was pretty much what I was thinking. In places like Africa they need every penny that they can get their hands on. I wouldn't however mind taking those pennies from a bunch of people who were rich enough not to notice it or if I do take it from poor people that I at least get the chance to give back more money to them to repay them for their loss.

After that I would just take care of my own interests and live my life peacefully with my family, it would be nice to have enough money where you never have to worry about everyday financial issues anymore and can just enjoy your life.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Yup I would do it. Most people would not notice at all unless either they are poor or they keep a track on their money.

 

[Pain Is Inevitable]

I wouldn't. Flat taxes are sooooo 19th century.

 

[lRookiel]

Why just a penny? I'd rob about 10p off everyone (Providing they have 10p to spare), I'd be a very wealthy man :3

And then donate to the needy and poor people in developing countries.

Then... Jetpacks......and, and, and infinite cookies! and.... Many games :3

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

No because while in any country where you can afford to go on the internet this would not be a problem but the last time I checked the average wage was ?0.02 but that was awhile ago. So I am not comfortable with taking roughly >50% the wage of a large portion of the people on this planet.

 

[Soods]

Yes, I would win in life and the rest of the people just have to learn to live without that one cent.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

Sure I dont see a problem with it. Stealing from an orphan or stealing from a starving african child sounds fun. /sarcasm

Seriously though how much would it cost to get to all these places. Besides stealing one cent is a pussy job. Imma gonna rob a museum or bank (I think this what I would call hyperbole, I never pay attention in english).

 

[Roxor]

No, because I don't think I could live with myself if I did.

On the up side, taking one cent from every bank account in the world would be a great way to finance giving developing countries a helping hand.

 

[Liquidcool]

I would have no right. It's not my money. I wouldn't like it if someone stole a penny from me. Not because a penny means much to me, but because theft is a hostile act and it would anger me that someone would take what's rightfully mine without permission.

 

[Knight1172]

Nope. To be honest, I'd much rather steal seven billion cents from one person, but if that was not possible, then taking a cent from a person who lives on 50 cents a day is basically the difference between life and death for some people. Let's be conservative and say taking that cent leads to the deaths of five people - I just killed, by proxy, five people.

It is, as I like to call it, the Moist Von Lipwig dilemma.

 

[Hugga_Bear]

Complicated, I'd rather take a penny (or cent if we're being American) from most people, since for many it would be a rather important amount of money, sadly enough.

Still, yes I would. I suppose I am quite selfish but still, my long term goals are utterly selfless and the money would help in reaching them, in fact it would almost secure them. So it's selfish but will still be used to help others more than those pennies could ever have helped them themselves.

 

[Vivi22]

Nope. To be honest, I'd much rather steal seven billion cents from one person, but if that was not possible, then taking a cent from a person who lives on 50 cents a day is basically the difference between life and death for some people. Let's be conservative and say taking that cent leads to the deaths of five people - I just killed, by proxy, five people.

It is, as I like to call it, the Moist Von Lipwig dilemma.

Agreed with you. Since the question involves taking a cent from everyone in the world that has a cent, there will be people who go hungry because of how little money they had to begin with. There may even be people who die because of it. I am not going to let people starve or die for the equivalent of me winning the lottery. If the question involved taking a penny from everyone over a certain income threshold I might say yes, but the immorality of saying yes to what is being suggested goes beyond a simple stealing is stealing scenario.

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

Outside my monkey sphere. Don't care. I'll take a dollar from each instead.

 

[RoBi3.0]

First thing I would ask is why the hell everyone in the world has American Currency in their pockets. :/

 

[laggyteabag]

If i did take 1 penny from everyone in the world id need one massive room to hold all 7billion of them, and good luck cashing them in at the bank, it would take you forever

 

[Svenparty]

I would and I would spent every cent on a wallet big enough for all of them....Then spent a lifetime realizing the irony of what I'd done.