• Godric@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    In fairness, offing someone means your share goes up less than 1%, making the risk-reward for murder math out beneficial for everyone.

    However, if that 17 billion was split between two or three children, we might have the beginning of an Agatha Christie novel.

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          That would be split between 105 people. So it’s really, you get 160 million or 161.6 million with a chance of life in prison.

          Just put the money in a savings account with at least 1% interest and you’ll make the extra in the first year

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      In fairness, offing someone means your share goes up less than 1%, making the risk-reward for murder math out beneficial for everyone.

      Less than 1% (106 kids), so each share would be $160m each. However, if the murdering offspring has crossed the line into murder, why stop at just one murder? A single murder would net each surviving offspring an extra $1.5M. This also assumes there is only one murdering offspring. As soon as the first murder occurs there might be a second or third copycat murderer. With only 90 surviving offspring each survivor is getting a cool $188m each.

      However, if that 17 billion was split between two or three children, we might have the beginning of an Agatha Christie novel.

      Maybe not an Agatha Christie book, but the interesting novel would arrive where in the story one of the offspring figures out this math, and identifies common locations where more than one offspring would be at one time. So a single incident would net them multiple hits, and be hidden from obvious intent.

      “Tonight, sadness grips the city as the roof of the Claridon Center Arena fell in during the sold out concert. At this hour officials confirm 37 dead as the search for survivors continues. No cause has been reported for the roof failure yet.”

      “A city bus was engulfed in flames when a stolen fuel tank truck collided with it at high speeds. There were no survivors on the bus carrying 42 people. Curiously, the tank truck driver escaped unharmed at is being sought by police even now for questioning.”