Ian GarcezWhat if we gamified generosity?
Richest people & companies compete to give the most away — earning real prestige, awards, and social perks for it.
#CompetitiveAltruism #NewEconomics #Inequality #Solarpunk
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Same ego-drive that builds billionaires, redirected toward redistribution. Status-seeking as a social operating system.
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Could bragging rights fix inequality?
It's not a new impulse — potlatch economies, Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth, and the Giving Pledge all tap into it. But none quite gamify it like this.
Not pure socialism, not pure capitalism. Status-seeking pointed in a different direction.
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alxd of the Story Seed Library@gullok hard no.
There's a reason Solarpunk and Anarchism want mutual aid, not charity.
We don't want to reward people who amass wealth just because they give some of it away. Let's build equal societies instead.
@alxd @blaubeer I hear you. What I was imagining is a bit more involved. Something like: the X most rich people and companies are obliged to distribute their wealth among the Y most in need. You get an achievement award and have to restart your wealth building process.
Don’t want to give your riches away? Make sure you give away enough so you are not into the top X. But maybe it will be easier to get credit for that crazy new idea if you have two or three of the awards.
Haaukke@gullok Hard no. That is the idea behind "effective altruism" and so-called "service clubs", and both produce the must terrible persons on earth.
It *encourages* those people to maintain the current state as they earn from it. It actively prevents a change to the better.
The money given by charity is neutral and helps in dire situations. But if it is given by people who have a chance to change the situation but instead just want to earn brownie points then it is still terrible.