Would you screw over the nation for your personal gain?

[Stratego]

[Aaron]

I was thinking about it, but I thought the GDP was more like 15.3. It's clearly over 15.5 so nah.

[Spider]

Yep.

-Spider, Selfish Human.

I'd only altruistically provide a boost if I had absolute control over how the gains were allocated.

[exploited]

No.

I'm somewhat of a puritan when it comes to money. Money not earned isn't worth having.

[Spider]

Earn it?

But...The capital we use to enable that production originally comes from the harvesting of accumulated primeval capital built through thousands of years of humanities collective production activities.

None of us can earn anything.

So, clearly, in the far future our descendants are going to postulate that we have a much better claim to it, since everything they are going to "earn" is based on what we "earned". And the only reason we can "earn" it is because some caveman invented the wheel at some point, so really....he should probably get the goods. After all...the invention of the wheel has allowed for the generation of nearly all of humanities productivity and development.

So...I think I've got a damn good claim on that cash. Consider how much my present production is going to be worth in 50,000 years, with everyone building off of it!

[The Dharma Bum]

No.

It would be unethical.

Plus it's not even a good trade if you look at the numbers. Your salary only quintuples but would incur major damage to do so.

[The Dharma Bum]

For spiders paycheck to go up to 80K it would cost 39.2 billion.

Simply bad business to accept that.

[Spider]

Wouldn't cost me tho. I could finally afford to buy a non-Korean car.

Besides, what would 39 billion buy? Toilet paper for the National Parks Service?

[The Dharma Bum]

Well, support for capitalism is predicated on sociopathy.

[Spider]

Saturday morning non sequitur!

10 points.