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.
The only way you are going to survive that is if he pushes the lever so hard he breaks it.
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.
Red, why are you so happy?!
Someday he might be the one pulling the lever.
He suffers so much in end stage capitalism that death is welcome.
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. :)
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.
Huschke's version could work if the rich guy wants to destroy money that isn't his in order to make own money more valuable, like I'm pretty sure was the plot of the movie Goldfinger.
Also I guess the green dude blew up the mint shortly before this happened so destroyed money can't just be replaced.
A train hitting bags of money doesn't collect them.
I'm that situation the only way you will survive is if the guy pulls the lever so hard he breaks it.
Voting is a lever.
If you can't handle both choices having problems, you don't understand the trolley problem.
Congratulations on comprehending the immense complexity of the thought experiment the trolley problem represents. In doing so, you prove how very smart you are, and that understanding will no doubt prove of high value in many real-life scenarios. You, sir, are a beacon of rationality, and everyone should take an example of you.
Yeah it's not like this is simple and relevant, and people bend over backwards to pretend otherwise. Pointing out the obvious must mean I'm being smug.
I vote that you shut up
