Role Reversal

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just make teeth out of it then problem solved

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The idea of a Reverse Lottery is one in which a handful of very expensive tickets are "sold" and the "winner" is selected to distribute their entry fee to the public at large.

Rhaedas

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Riding through the land
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Without a merry band
He steals from the poor and gives to the rich
Stupid bitch.

Dennis Moore: "What did you sing?"

Singers: "We sang... he steals from the poor and gives to the rich."

Dennis Moore: "Wait a tic ... blimey, this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought."

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How long would he have to be in possession of the money before he got stuck in a recursive loop of having to steal from himself?

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Whatever joke is too mundane for XKCD, you can be sure that Monty Python has already made.

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This is such a lame and reused idea

Ace

The problem is he "only" took a small sack of money.

For reference, if you want a billion dollars in $20 bills it would roughly fill a shipping container. So the likes of Elon/etc would be like a container ship filled with shipping containers all filled with $20 bills.

Any sack of money that you can hold is 0% of their wealth, so they would definitely still be rich after confiscating any amount of money you can hold/carry.

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If it's a Robin Hood story, then presumably it's full of gold coins rather than dollar bills. Bag's about the size of his head, call it four litres. Gold has a density about 20 kg / litre and is worth about $100 / gram, so ignoring the fact that you'd struggle to lift that bag, especially in one hand, it would be worth about $8M.

Still works out to about 0% of their wealth. Time to start taxing the rich.

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Robin Hood wasn’t really an altruist. He was an ally of King Richard who was absent (fighting in the crusades) during Robin’s adventures. Prince John, Robin Hood’s nemesis, was constantly scheming to usurp Richard’s throne. Thus Robin Hood and his band of outlaws should better be thought of as partisans fighting a guerrilla war against a usurper.

go $fsck yourself

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Did the myth of Robin Hood actually start like a hundred years later and was retractively pushed back to King Richard's day?

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Have fun stormin' da kessel!

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In some cases the problem is understanding how cartoons work.

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Robin Hood might not have even existed as a singular person. Rather, the name could’ve been a common alias shared by many sudden outlaws.

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I mean a sack full of gold coins is a ludicrous thing to be carrying around for all but maybe the king in that time. Like that was probably that nobles entire net worth except for his land and clothes. A sack full of gold coins. That's a fuckload of gold.

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Ah yes currency back then is the same as today. He definitely had USD bills in the sack.

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Gold was rarer back then than it is today. It would have been worth a lot more inflation corrected.

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The bag is just a metaphor, the problem is that it was given all to a single person instead of multiple. Since the point is to stop the accumulation of wealth.

AwesomeLowlander

No noble holds all their wealth in liquid currency. Most of their wealth comes from their land holdings, etc.