5000 of anything is still crazy. Spread them out over a large enough urban area and they can beg, scavenge, and steal. If each of them gives you $1 per day that’s $5000 per day, over 1.8 million per year.
They're still your Yes Men army of five thousand people. Even the laziest hobos have to panhandle every day and beggars and panhandlers make way more than that even in poorer countries.
That's enough to completely push away any other beggar mafia in your city and take it over from down up.
Especially if you could pull them up a bit, if they're truly forced to obey you, then you grow from five thousand lazy hobos to enterpreneuring hobos, then trailer park low-lifers, then five thousand low-income workers... that still look into your mouth like you're a messiah.
Yes, forcing five thousand lazy hobos is like herding cats, but doing that to increase the amount of money you (and they) make is enough to create a sort of positive feedback loop.
Assemble them around you and use them as a crowd to shout your ideas at. If 5.000 people all agree, others will eventually join. Use this to start your world domination playthrough.
Yeah, five thousand enamored people in a local rally or some sort of a megachurch, spread out, are enough to rally at least twice as many people. If you have people cheering on all sides, it takes a very strong individual to oppose... if there's anything to oppose. Who knows, maybe you are benevolent?
5000 Yes Men from Fallout: New Vegas. Hard currency has its uses, but with 5000 killer robots at your back, you can help yourself to whatever you want, and won't receive a bill.
I could probably buy a lot more than 5000 yes men from NV for $500 billion. Even if each one was $1 million I would still have $495 billion left over plus an army of robots with digital faces and machine guns.
I hope you trust the seller. If a newly-minted Rich Guy offered me money for my robot army, I'd take the money, but keep the robots. If he has a problem with that, he can take it up with my robot army.
How? Assuming there are even 5000 billionaires, its just taking money from other people and giving it to me. The money isnt being printed for me and would do nothing for the GDP. Its like saying Elon, Bezos, and Gates net worths are the sole reason for inflation. You dont see $1 million cheeseburgers because someone won a 2 billion dollar powerball.
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u/giggitygoo123 5d ago
5000 Yes Men that are all billionaires.
Ask each of them for $100 million and they have to say yes.