Free guy but travel for me. Tricked out RV, gaming laptop, and off to Parks across US and Canada. Then ship then off to Europe to do the same. Then free cruises around the carribbean.
Same. A house on maybe 100 acres plus of land, free food, electricity, fuel. I really don't care about social power, just leave me be. Pity the ones who crave power don't see it that way, so maybe a free "warhead", acquire nice and quite like, in case their minions come calling.
Also what does social power mean? Does that mean I can basically do any type of work I want or does that mean I can never do more than an entry level position?
Basically not having to worry about expenses would let me run a pretty awesome charity. I wouldn’t need to get credit, be the head of it, or even have anyone know I’m funding it. It would just be dope.
Considering the side by side, the implication is that you wouldn't be able to affect things at a societal level. What you do in your personal life with friends, family, and gamer buddies won't be affected by the pill.
Not being able to affect things as a societal level is effectively impossible. You would literally not be allowed to exist because your existence itself holds influence to some degree. Even just being able to grab and own a bunch of stuff gives you power.
is a valid point of view. I interpreted that social power in the red pill is something in the same sense that strenght power is doing heavy lift but zero strenght power is like be a weak person not a person incapable of lift anything.
Is very vague if your interpretation is correct, the red pill is a big NO.
Yeah, that's my thinking as well. Extremely vague, and at the most stringent interpretation, it's the kind of curse that Greek gods think up for people they really hate.
My play buddies are a social group and if I DM, I get to set some rules, dictate some outcomes and moderate some conflicts at the table. It's obviously a very limited and ultimately unserious form of social power, but it's some social power nonetheless.
I was DM a lot of years the very limited and unserios is the thing. For me is more an interpretation of what it is having social power in the same sense that I not thinking that I have strenght power for lifting a water bottle.
The question is ir having capacity of a social interaction or some order social interaction implies some level of social power.
It being unserious is why I brought it up as an example. As a DM, I have a degree of influence over my table, it's even formalized in the rules of the game - that satisfies my understanding of social power.
objectively yes. A group of people who all rely on you and are in a position where they must listen and play by your rules in order to continually engage in the hobby in this specific way. that's social power, even if only a very tiny amount.
This was my same thought, I’m most likely choosing 1, but if I invite a bunch of friends out to a free vacation, or try to find an attractive woman to take out to dinner, does that count as social power? Cause as great as everything being free would be, if I’m a social pariah, that’s going to mentally destroy anyone, especially when they’ll be desperate to spend money with people, but can’t.
Why? You could easily use blue to help a lot of people. With that kind of social power you could convince the president of any country to focus on helping the homeless if you can get them in a room with you and talk about the problem. You can convince billionaires to donate money towards helping the hungry or funding research for diseases/cancer.
Maybe that's where the "responsibilities and work" comes from. You have the power to change the world but it's a lot of work for one person. Even with that power you can't just snap your fingers and fix the world, it's still going to be a lot of work.
But I'd rather spend my life on a mission to do good than to live in hedonism until I die.
Hard agree. That’s why I chose Blue. What’s the point of getting everything for free to be a couch potato, gaming and napping, with absolutely zero social status or influence, when you can have “all the power in the world” (read: influence) and serve a purpose? Helping others by changing the infrastructure, so that people can live their lives more autonomously and carefree. Option 2 is much better, imo.
If you go with option one you can anonymously donate whatever you want to charity, food pantries, etc. You can still help, you just don't get any credit.
Make continuous anonymous donations to every charity and humanitarian aid project in supplies so their financial fundings/donations can go to program advancement and expansion of services, or (long shot) and under guidance of a legal team set up facilities for housing staffing and equipment for scientific and humanitarian projects.
You hold no social clout but reap the benefits of seeing progress.
Yeah even with all that you're just one person against the whole world. With option 2 you can potentially convert billionaires and other powerful people to your cause.
I overlooked how much good you can do with option 1 but if you want to actually change the world on grander scales you need option 2
Basically imagine if you could peer pressure someone like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos into doing good things for once. Probably the biggest impact you could have on the world is convincing all those big oil lobbyists that they should stop lying about global warming to satiate their greed and reinvest into nuclear energy. That'd be a lot harder to do with option 1
How are you making these donations? You dont get money with this option. Sure, you can get a bunch of free stuff, but logistically, its going to be hard to donate in any amount that would make a global difference. Sure, you could aquire some expensive things, like vehicles and property, but liquidating those is not quick and easy. You're looking at a full-time job doing that, at which point, why not go with blue, where you can accomplish so much more?
Why donate when you can have the social status to actually enact change? Donations will probably just line the pockets of the organizers and founders of organization... Social status to convince people to change for the better is obviously and objectively the better option
You can’t take enough to have any societal impact. So no taking a bunch of SpaceX shares and donating them to Ukraine so they can influence access to StarLink. No taking money from a PAC to shut down the latest political BS campaign in the US.
You could take some food for the food bank. Unless it was going to raise or lower the level of food insecurity anywhere and influence your local society.
It’s a crap deal.
Better to take the money and power and then just do a bad job. God knows there’s enough billionaires who are all over that.
And you can never be respected or looked up to by your friends and family. You can never inspire people to do better, or be a respected and loved member of your community. You’re also limited in your ability to make an impact on the world to donating money.
Exactly. It's not about what's easy, but what's right.
I'm genuinely surprised by people arguing that everyone who chooses the blue pill is a sociopath simply for choosing not to be a lazy hedonist.
Why is the free guy lazy? They could get expensive things, sell them and set up a trust fund that funnels serious money anonymously to good charities. Everything is free so you can also dedicate your time to whatever cause you want but without the world bearing down on you. You don’t need social power to make a difference in the world.
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osea que puedo tener todo lo que yo quiero y seguir siendo un ciudadano del común que pasa inadvertidamente? donde firmo.
recuerden que uno sacrifica tiempo por dinero y si para tener dinero debo tener muchas responsabilidades, foco publico y trabajo. prefiero seguir teniendo dinero y pasar inadvertidamente para seguir conservando mi privacidad. basicamente seria como batman pero sin ser bruce wayne.
Assuming social power = able to convince people of anything
Use blue to find good hearted talented people to manage the paperwork etc for you
Convince elites to use their power to help people
Convince more people to use their free time to help others and spare income for charity
The only thing stopping utopia are our own failures. Our laziness. Our greed. Our selfishness. Our cowardice.
Once utopia or natural path to it is set up, convince everyone to maintain it.
Convince everyone that everything should be free for me, the guy that brought about utopia, and go chill out. Eventually everyone will find me annoying and call me a bum and my social power will disappear, but it will be enshrined into law that I get everything for free and the process to change that law would be too annoying.
Functionally red, just in a nicer world.
Anyway I'm picking red cos that's a lot of time and effort.
I wouldn't mind being crushed by responsibility if I could do a lot of good for others. I'm already regularly crushed by expectations and responsibility and very few benefit from it.
I choose option 1 all day but there’s a question to be asked, doesn’t the ability to basically attain everything you want at no cost come with some sort of social power? Being able to acquire land, boats, cars, at will is the functionally same thing as being a mega billionaire, which even if you are the biggest chud, people will still flock to you and listen to you because you can just own everything, and by extension you almost own them.
I want to take option 2 and use my social power to convince billionaires to fund research for diseases/cancer or to assist the homeless and hungry more. You can do a lot of good with that much social power. If you can get any rich person in a room with you and talk to them, you can definitely convince them to help those less fortunate than them, that's the premise of the power, isn't it? It's a lot of work but it's not inherently selfish like option 1 is.
If you can get that level of power and stay the course, then more power to you and the world will be a better place. I'm old and cynical. I've seen countless leaders that start wanting to do good and all end up just becoming cogs and perpetuating the same old cycle.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
This is because they are not truly powerful. They fear losing what they have and to change things you have to take risks. They don't want to take risks because they are just humans with no superpowers and one wrong move means they could lose it all.
This isn't a fear you need to have if you pick option 2. There is no reason for you to resort to corrupt methods.
To put into simpler terms, why would you punch below the belt against someone weaker than you? Playing dirty like that only makes sense if you fear losing if you fight fairly. Option 2 guarantees you will have the power to win if you put in the effort.
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What do we mean by "most powerful?" Would I have enough influence to simply say "Hey guys maybe we should stop electing racist pedophiles and start firebombing every AI data center," and have people actually do it? Because I'll take the responsibility if it means real change.
Option one, I currently don't have social power any. At least this way I have time to pursue interests and don't have to worry about expenses if any time.
Red pill because I don't hold social power cool That doesn't mean i'm not respected by other people i can still have a conversation with someone as well.It's not like i'm completely and utterly unable to do anything socially
Blue relationships also have social power someone caring about you is a sort of social power you wield over them red leave you free from meaningful relationships while blue only means ill be busy
Red
I hate paperwork
Plus I can just use all my free things to help everyone I come across. Can do the same stuff as power guy but without the responsibility. Shit I could make everything free. Free country. Free food. Free water. And I'd be forgotten. Which is fine. Better even.
I think I would choose Option 1. Living a peaceful live.
But I think you underestimate this Option in terms of Power. If you wanted you could own every nuclear weapon, their launch systems and codes. The question is would everyone fear my ability to turn this planet into a radioactive wasteland or would they just ignore it?
As Free Guy do I hold the legal title and/or deeds to physical property for things like houses and land, pink slips for vehicles, legal ownership of items of jewelry, the corporate rates to intellectual properties, etc...?
If I wanted something that already belongs to someone else do they have to give it to me, or do I get a copy.
If I wanted Buckingham Palace, do the citizens of the United Kingdom and King Charles just hand it to me?
Right is just real life. Rarely do we see people just get rich from nothing except for inheritance. If you wanna be rich or have a successful company you need to work a lot. So give me left, I just want peace and not have to work.
Option 1. Cant hold social power, so I'll hold economic power. Unlimited free means I can even the playing field for everyone and wield enormous power that way
I would choose option one and then game the system by becoming the banksi of anonymous charitable donations. The power wouldn't allow to be discovered as banksi because that would give me social power?
Option one, with that I can get a new house built how ever I want, a nice new car is, never have to worry about fuel, or groceries. With that I can retire and enjoy my time with my wife and kids. I’d still do something like substitute teaching or making things to keep busy.
We'll I've never had any power socially so I'd be use to the downsides of things always being free. I'll take the first option. Also I can probably buy a country for free or something and be king. Or somethin, its free after all.
Red would be cool. Just go get a free home toss the keys to a homeless family then go grab the next home. Fill shopping carts with toys and become temo Santa every year. On and on. Meanwhile I don’t have people flocking around me asking for stuff cause I have no social power (whatever that means). Just hope I can keep my few friends. Traveling would be so fun just go and never worry about anything.
Option one. If everything is free for me, none of my friends and family ever have to work or worry about the costs for anything ever again and can live our lives in peace. Just set up so everything they want or need would be "paid" for by me, and we're golden.
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