The Good Game



Can a single person make the world a better place?
I propose a game to fix the world. All it would take is the sacrifice of most of one billionaires wealth. If Jeff Bezos donated 152 billion dollars to the game, he would still have, as of July, 20 billion dollars left to himself.
Here’s the game:
Announce to the world that those between the ages of 20 and 40 today would have a chance to win 1 million American dollars in 5 years time if they have completed a 4 year college degree, with a greater than a C average, and have less than $50,000 (I’m not sure about this amount…) in total family assets as of today. 150 thousand winners throughout the world would win. The distribution of winners would be completely unbiased and based upon population density as of the current census. Where you are designated as living, as of this past census, is where you would be counted.
The only other criteria that would be taken into account would be how good the person is in 5 years. During that time, there would be a world wide vote on the characteristics of what constitutes a good person.
There would still be 2 billion dollars left over from the donated money. This would go toward funding the marketing, facilities, and data scientists that would use AI to do what Facebook and others do: Determine the personality of all the participants. This data would not leave the game servers or be used in any other way other that finding out who qualifies, under the voted for “Good Person” qualifications.
This game would hugely incentivize the world to get a college degree and become better people. I can easily imagine a quadrupling of the number of college students throughout the world as a result.
What better legacy than that for a billionaire?

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