Makes sense.:D

With my finger on the button, I'd take the whole kit and caboodle and go public with it. Then I'd charge people a dollar each to introduce themselves to me. Why settle for a measly million?

Brilliant!


Here's another variation:
If you press the button, there is a 50% chance that you will get very large amount of money, and someone randomly chosen will die, but also a 50% chance that you will die and someone randomly chosen will receive the money.

This is inspired by Rawls' social philosophy, in that an arrangement is "fair" only if you would agree to be a party to it without knowing what role in that arrangement you will play.

sexobama ftw

I just realized something. Push a button, somone you don't know dies and you get a million dollars...Isn't that what we call the insurance industry?

Yeah. And life insurance policies are now being bundled into tranches and sold off to investors... More massive, institutional players with an stake in your expeditious demise.

Oh no! It's the beginning of the insurance wars... Health insurance companies want you to die and life insurance companies want you to live.... who will reign supreme - highlights at eleven.:p

Life insurance companies can't do much to keep you alive. Health insurance companies can do everything to 'lower their costs' if you get sick.

You tell me who has more power -- who will win.

Life insurance is you betting you'll die, and the insurance company is betting you'll live.

Yes, I'd push the button.
Without hesitation.
And if the next person pushes the button and I die, so goes the circle of life.

I accept: It's a direct rip-off from an episode of the newer "Twilight Zone" series.