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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The only way you are going to survive that is if he pushes the lever so hard he breaks it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or if you're not the first in line to die and the train derails before reaching you. Or maybe with some luck the train driver still has some rights and strikes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The train driver will just be replaced with an Uber driver for a fraction of the cost. Even better the Uber driver is an independent contractor and not an employee so when the train derails the train owner is not liable but are actually entitled to have their damages paid first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The owner pulls the lever, gets the cash, and the driver goes to jail πŸ‘πŸ» The victims' families get a sincere letter of apology.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Billionaires: I don't see the dilemma. I don't have to do anything and I get more money while a bunch of worthless meat machines die? That sounds like a normal day to me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Red, why are you so happy?!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someday he might be the one pulling the lever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

if only he works hard enough

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

He suffers so much in end stage capitalism that death is welcome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Is it just me, or does the comic not make any sense? Wouldn't a rich person always go for the money, thus the people surviving? A better version would be to put the money next to bound people, which would force the rich person to make a choice between money and saving people.

EDIT: Thanks for the clarification. I guess I play too many video games. :)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

No, you're reading it wrong. The trolley destroys what it runs over. An easy way to imagine it instead of money's say property. You have 4 people on one line, or your nice shiny car on another. If you choose the people over the car, you've killed 4 people just to keep your car. In like vein, this rich person can either destroy potential profits but save lives, or he can choose to save the profit over the lives of multiple people.

I don't see how your version works: it would be destroying both.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

A train hitting bags of money doesn't collect them.