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to succeed or not succeed, that is the question....

posted 2 months ago by 123Guy (7281)
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this is only a MENTAL EXERCISE, a thought experiment etc.

LET'S SAY, you invented a way to make food in masive quantities, super cheap, and tasted really great, BUT it is sugar filled, and would obviously not be healthy for you, and probably cause obesity for decades....

This process will sell out immediately, get investors, put up factories, create thousands of jobs, and LITTERALLY make you a BILLIONAIRE...

Do you do it?

If you don't, you stay in your 9-5 job at the food processing plant, making $20 an hour, saving for retirement, scraping by. ...verses billionaire, because your new food sells like mad whil being not very healthy (but still completely within the parameters of FDA or whomever governs legal food)

Why or why not?

[–] FredBurroughs (21465) 2 months ago

You work at a Twinkie factory or something? What are we supposed to take away from this?

[–] 123Guy (7281) 2 months ago

this is a hypothetical completely unrelated to me

[–] Kowalski (75537) 2 months ago

I KEEP TELLING YOU...SOMEONE ALREADY INVENTED PIXIE STICKS.

[–] SemiAnimus (2353) 2 months ago

Are pixie sticks still around? I haven't come across them in years.

Maybe some future billionaire could reinvent them?

[–] Kowalski (75537) 2 months ago

YUP...BOUGHT SOME AT THE DOLLAR TREE STORE RECENTLY.

[–] BuckleBilly (1155) 2 months ago

Make the cookies and sell them.

No moral issue.

People have free will.

[–] 123Guy (7281) 2 months ago

so, I make a billion, people don't HAVE TO buy them, obesity goes up 66% is fine?

is it free will if sugar is addicting and my process uses sugar?

[–] BuckleBilly (1155) 2 months ago

Now you're moving the goalpost and assuming it is immoral. It's not. Your customers are responsible for their own well being, obesity is reversible, and the thousands you employ are far better off with jobs than without. If you feel guilty, just reinvest the billions into things you think will help (as most billionaires do).

[–] Kowalski (75537) 2 months ago

THAT IS THE 18TH LEVEL OF THE TONY PERKIS SYSTEM

[–] 123Guy (7281) 2 months ago

no goal post, no moving, just discussing various components.

so basically, business has NO MORAL side, just profit and profit alone?

[–] BuckleBilly (1155) 2 months ago

Yes you did, you added the obesity aspect to increase the stakes.

But, McDonald's is not responsible for people who choose to eat there everyday. Hostis is not responsible for people who only eat Zebra Cakes. The Girl Scouts aren't responsible for people who buy enough boxes to have one box per snack. They offer a consumable product. The user is responsible for not overindulging.

[–] parkerbot (9094) 2 months ago

Do it.

Use the money to buy the FDA and then bring in new healthier guidelines across the board.

[–] 123Guy (7281) 2 months ago

i like it: move the line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5bj9Lf87E

[–] TheMan18 (13016) 2 months ago

"Failure's not an option" - as they say (also a quote from the movie "True Lies" (1994) that is now oh My God 30 years old.)