No billionaire day.
It occurs anytime someone amasses $1 billion. They’re given the choice to donate the entire billion to public welfare programs or be tarred and feathered and paraded through the streets.
And then donate an entire million to the public welfare programs they don’t own.
And then donate an entire
millionbillion to the public welfare programs they don’t own.
Quiet day.
We park all the cars, ground the airplanes, turn off the AC to the minimum, etc and just enjoy the sounds of nature for once.
Turn the lights off so we can see the stars at night.
I remember seeing stars at night when I was in my mother’s village in Taishan, China, barely any electricity there, no internet, not sure if there were cellular, but I do remember a landline phone.
The cities is a whole different story, massive pollution. Doubt much could be seen.
I don’t know if anywhere in the US is even as remote/isolated as that village.
I think the night sky visibility goes like this:
Rural China > Rural US > Urban US> Urban China. At least before 2010, no idea what its like now.
Kill a Nazi day
It’s called Liber8 Day, Mr. Sadler
economic reset day were all money and resources in the world is gathered up and equally divided among the populace.
I think we should just call it ‘Eat the Rich’ day.
Happens on days ending with ‘y’? Yeah, I’m cool with that.
honestly once a year would be fine. I mean its a reset so unequality is limited to what can be done in a year.
I can’t wait for the yearly capitalist speed runs to occur!
Then money wouldn’t be money. Dad always said, “If making money was easy, everyone would do it.”
The US government could give every one of us $1,000,000 tomorrow. Would you have them do it? Would anyone go to work next week? How would you buy goods and services when everyone is a millionaire? “Gonna need $50K to mow your lawn.”
We could be 100x more equitable without breaking out the paint roller.
I did not say just money.
Resources and money are basically the same thing. Spread it around equally, well, kinda like the opening of Snow Crash:
…once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity…
(Awesome novel about late-stage capitalism and arguably the grandson of Gibson’s cyberpunk fiction.)
Yes, our needs could be met at current economic levels and population. But as population and education increase, people want more and more and more. It’s wired into our monkey brains. If everyone has the same shit, many will want more shit. Spread it all around evenly, you’ve only created hyper-inflation.
I don’t have an answer. We didn’t evolve to work in groups of more than 150, 200 max.
honestly no one will have the same as that would not work. it would be a combination of cash, land, stocks, etc. People could elect to keep things they have up to their share so they don’t have to move or such. Ill be honest I threw it out as more an ideololized thing. Would rather we tax and regulate so that wealth accumulation became harder the more you have (rather than being harder till you hit escape velocity and it then being easier) and use tax to make sure their is a floor of folks being able to have essentials but given the question I threw this in as my choice.
Yes! Our only hope of digging out is to make the case for taxing the snot out of the rich. We can’t all be rich, but a rising tide lifts all boats.
I cannot think of anything clever or anything, so I’m gonna just say international cozy day where you get as cozy as you can and if possible help someone else get cozy and comfortable.
Basically a day where you have to be nice and can help make other people’s life better and more cozy as well. Even if it’s just something as small as giving a homeless person a blanket or clean clothes. Or bigger, like providing shelter to a friend in a domestic abuse situation. All without laws getting in the way of helping people.
Though this is just an absolute pipedream because I can think of a few countries where they would ban this holiday or warp it to be more about being selfish than helping others.
May 1st, the day outdoor fuckin’ starts. I think the celebration is obvious, and it think it would help build empathy and compassion for our cumpatriots, bettering society.
Okay, Jonathan.
Science and Logic day! 23rd of January. Or 12th of March
Celebrations include home science projects, appreciation of scientists and professors, local interactive educational scientific events, etc
The affects would be appreciation of truth and logic which would fight the misinformation issues that we currently have, and it will also serve to educate people and inspire them to seek further education and understanding.
I remember from my home country there was a holiday called 儿童节 (Children’s Day), on June 1, where we are supposed to like idk parents are supposed to appreciate/cherish their children or something. Well I don’t remember them ever gave me any actual gifts (other than like clothing, which IMO doesn’t count) or if it was just another hollow, empty, meaningless holiday.
We should have something like that. Maybe reworded as “Childhood Rememberance Day” (童年回念节?) or something. Where people just talk about the good aspects of their childhood, or a childhood they wished they had, revisit places they visited as a child, re-experience childhood for a day, just forget about the adulting for 24 hours. And of course, celebrate their children’s present moment too, let their kids have fun, don’t yell at them, tell them how much they are loved, and actually show affection.
My childhood was so confusing, I remember being told that I was loved, but then I also remember moments where I got yelled at, and also those fights with my older brother.
I have zero memories of actually doing anything fun on 儿童节, just another phrase on the calandar.
Honestly we need like an entire week of this holiday. Adulthood is cruel, childhood (with the right parents, of course) is beautiful.
Flush the floaters day. Every year we guillotine the 10 (+an additional 10 each successive year) richest people on the planet. Once everyone has baseline access to food, housing, healthcare, education, etc, we put the guillotines on standby and instead have an annual feast. If conditions backslide, or if we’ve failed to reach the feast benchmark by the 10th anniversary, we switch from guillotining the 10 richest individuals to the 10 richest families with case-by-case exceptions being considered for anyone in the bloodlines in question who have shown that they’re worth keeping alive.
I…love this idea.
Don’t use your connected devices for 24 hours day.
“EMPs have been activated, please enjoy the holiday, do not resist.”
Dragon Hunting Day
Anyone who bags an obscene wealth hoarding serpent gets to be the Honored Hero of the feast.
After the first couple years we’ll need to set some boundaries and make it figurative though
Deconstruction day. You deconstruct why you believe what you believe, and if you don’t have a good reason, you abandon that belief.
Will there be a dedicated clergy to help the majority of souls with their critical thinking skills?
Dad popped up drunk at a big college party one night. Went upstairs and saw he had 15 kids sitting around the room in a rough circle. As I walked in I heard, “YOU! Change places with him and argue his point. Switch up.”
Confused looks, brains readjusted, off they went, back to the debate.
Dad always said if you couldn’t argue the other side, you didn’t understand the argument. I have never found that notion to be false.
(Cue the posts telling me their favorite point is unarguable, simply right. I can present the other side of anything. Even if I know it’s bullshit, there is another side, and it’s likely more logical than you think.)
You don’t like Festivus?
I far prefer to celebrate Newton’s Birthday
He changed the world… hell he’s largely responsible for our modern world
I celebrate with my family by watching science lectures
True story
Earth Day, but one where we actually celebrate the planet we live on and its wonders.
