30 People Post Their Dumbest Ideas That Might Just Might Make The World A Better Place
The brain is a truly fantastic thing. The same organ that’s capable of controlling a myriad of passive as well as active bodily functions, comprehending elaborately complex concepts, and providing a unique kind of sentience is also the organ that often slips us a dumb idea. Or two. OK, much more.
But, hey, not all ideas are dumb, despite you thinking so. A curious Twitter user by the name of Bijan asked the internet what’s the dumbest idea people ever had, but are nevertheless convinced it’d still make the world a better place for all.
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Bored Panda has collected some of the best responses from the viral thread and created a curated list for you to enjoy. Vote, comment, and why not tell us some of your ideas in the comment section below!
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I also think they should live on an "average" wage for a year or two so they understand what the average person/family have to go through.
Legalize weed across the states, tax it, and use that money to repair the roads. Call it Operation Pothole.
Definitely, and for crying out loud ride in single file, not 2-3+ abreast.
Well in Australia it is illegal to ask a breastfeeding mother to leave or move elsewhere etc. Doesn't matter if she is feeding in the middle of a shopping centre, a restaurant etc. From my observations, it seems that other women are the ones that complain about breastfeeding in public, a lot more than men do.
This one makes me so sad, especially because of how women and PoC are so much more routinely dismissed, leading to sometimes dire consequences.
Knowing me I would procrastinate until June, then „relax“ during the summer until I finally put together a manuscript in december.
All the money that is spent on marketing and advertising saved would make products cheaper, and if the product changes are good, it will sell itself X
Like a personal ID coin for shopping cart..if you don't return the cart you don't have your coin back and you can't get the next cart..
Well, the horn is supposed to be used only in case of emergency. If you are in an emergency, you don't need that level of stress added on top of it.
In the United States there is a large percentage of people who are incarcerated essentially for being poor. They couldn't pay a fine and then they get put in prison.... so.....
To a wealthy person a fine is just the cost of doing the thing.
Load More Replies...This one is terrible. But jail time and fines as a proportion of wealth - THAT I could get behind. Some Scandinavian countries do that for speeding and other traffic offences, I've heard. Makes so much sense. A standard fine is just a "fee to be an asshole" for a rich person.
Definitely. Fines should be proportional to your savings/income. Its not the same to pay 100€ if you are jnemployed and struggling than if you are the major.
Load More Replies...US of A: "Great idea. Let's pay them 50 cent per hour, and we'll have workforce forever!"
They pay 6 cents an hour already so they probably wouldn’t increase the salary
Load More Replies...What if they're not physically able to work 9-5? Do we clog the system and end up filling jails with people who aren't physically able to generate enough revenue to get out? Will women be paid better in prison than outside because getting food and shelter for free while earning a realistic wage isn't an insensitive for anyone to leave prison
In the US we have a version two versions of this. Version one is pay a lawyer $6.7 million dollars and you get out of jail for rape early. The other version is you are poor and sent to a privately owned prison who makes you work for subprime wages, if they pay you, that can add time when/if they decide to do that. The state of California pays the private prisons to make the prisoners fight wildfires for free. Said prisoners are then banned from paying firefighting jobs when released due to being a felon. Both versions aren't working well for us. In both versions you are charged for court costs already.
I think there's pending legislation that would let the prison firefighters work as firefighters upon release. It's way past time that they are given the opportunity; if they do their time, and literally put their lives on the line to fight wildfires, they deserve a chance at honorable work when they get out
Load More Replies...Think this was called debtor's prison back in the day. It would certainly make an impact on the minimum wage arguments, iirc prisoners currently get extremely low wages for the work they do and use it to buy minor luxuries from the commissary. But how would you put a price on rape? How much is a black eye worth? And if time spent on a criminal's case determines their penalty, couldn't cops lollygag to extend the time people spend in jail? Who would handle the accounting to decide what crimes are worth?
Considering the prison gets to determine your salary, this just sounds even more like slavery than the modern prison industry.
I get what you are trying to say and it does make sense up to a certain point. Rich people should be stripped of their monetary amounts. But poor people already have nothing and a lot of times poor people get jailed when they really shouldn't. It will never be fair. Also what would you do with people who tortured someone? The idea of them getting getting whatever they dished out is good, but in reality, no, that's not what we want. And who would be willing to rape the rapist? Yea no, sorry, hard pass on this one
Actually, that's very similar to the system the Puritans in early New England had -- if you stole something, you'd have to pay back three times its value. If you couldn't afford that, you became an indentured servant for as long as it took to pay back the money.
Please watch "13th" (on netflix for free or on YouTube), educate yourself about the US prison industry and then stfu.
How do you even know that they are from US? Dont be so arrogant.
Load More Replies...No one has ever gotten sent to jail just for time. It ALWAYS comes with fines, extra costs, etc. I don't remember the place....(it was a blurb I read in passing in a waiting room) but somewhere on the planet, fines are calculated by the person's income. YES. There is also a huge problem in America with prison slavery, where we are packing the prisons with people just to get cheap labor.
I'm saying the same thing for years. If you beat someone, you pay the medical bill, and refund the company for their absence, if you break something, you pay for it and refund extra cost that the owner had ( ex. rent-a-car for the time broken car being repaired ). if you steal something, work until you pay everything you did steal and didn't return. Every wall street fraud would be a life sentence.
You would never reach the end of sentences with a system like that. If you factor in the cost of a prisoner i.e. housing, security, food, medical costs etc, then they could never earn enough per hour to cover this plus the cost of the crime and associated costs
People break into my Congress, most offenders get off with time served after 6 months.🤬
Fines are levied for some crimes along with jail, and the private jails send the inmates out to work for free.
I'm of the opinion that you send all of the criminals that can't be rehabilitated to Antarctica
Prisoners should work for the state to pay for the cost of living there. It varies in every country, but the amount of taxpayer money wasted on feeding/housing a prisoner is a lot, and it shouldn't come from our taxes.
In the US people make serious profit from the cheap work that gets done by prisoners. It motivates having high numbers of people incarcerated and is NOT a good idea.
Load More Replies...Can't remember where is was, but in a town in Europe everyone parked with their handbrake off so people could move the other cars back and forth as they parked or pulled away so they could all fit in
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I have one! Stop Bored Panda commenters from leaving humorless pedantic replies on posts that are clearly tongue in cheek.
some pf these actually harms the earth in the long run, but they DID ASK for their dumbest ideas, soooo
Best silly idea I heard that seemed valid was by Chris Rock. He suggested bullets should cost some ridiculous amount of money each. That way if someone shot a person you know it wasn't by accident.
My dumb idea is to mount a knife blade in the steering wheel connected to the bumper so if a car driver hits a pedestrian, the driver gets stabbed. There are too many accidents from drivers who get no punishment at all when they just say "I didn't see him" -- if the driver was in just as much danger as the pedestrian, they'd actually look for pedestrians. I've had many close calls from drivers approaching a red light and rolling through to make a right turn on red and didn't even see me already in the cross walk because they were only looking for cars, not pedestrians.
Try not assuming that people were being careless, and simply legit didn't see you. Honest mistakes do happen, you know. Also, if it is happening "many times" it is very possible the problem is in fact with the commonality the incidents share...you. If the light is red, you shouldn't be crossing, dumbass.
Load More Replies...The "No Money Party". Create a political party in the United States whose sole purpose is to prove that a candidate can get elected to a federal office (Rep or Sen) with zero political contributions. It would be based purely on social media and volunteers could print out posters or post online. The candidate would be completely neutral and base all of their decisions on polling results. The party would be disbanded after achieving its goal. It would be a purely philosophical test and, if successful would weaken the power that money has over our elections.
Be a kind human being to make up for the oxygen you are sucking up in the atmosphere
Ok absolutely mad idea for here in the USA but employees are encouraged to talk about their wages to help ensure fair and equitable wages for everyone according to their experience and skills, not according to who management hangs out with on lunch.
Those who deny pandemics and are anti vaxxers should not be treated for the diseases they deny existed or refuse to be vaccinated for. Those who cannot be vaccinated due to previous health conditions are exempt.
Ok here's my idea. We already have the ability to grow ears on the backs of rats so why not make little photosynthesizers that can be tattooed onto our backs and shoulders in cool designs so that the majority of our energy could be generated directly from sunlight? Of course we would still eat occasionally for fun and take in all our essential vitamins and protein and stuff but it would make a huge impact on reducing our food-related footprint on the planet.
Ok. SO hear me out. Phone companies are seriously sleeping on a "projector mode" for phones. It could come out of the flashlight, and they can basically cast their phone screen onto any surface. It would be better for your eyes, cause you're not looking directly into the screen, and do you REALIZE how much people would rather buy a phone over a whole projector and screen so they can use it twice a year. And it would be so much more portable!
An adjustable mirror on the back of my car so I can reflect HIGH BEAM HEADLIGHTS back into the face of the vehicle behind me. Especially effective when stuck in a drive-thru food place line at night.
Every person who tells me I HAVE to become pregnant, after I have said I don’t want to, immediately becomes pregnant with no right to an abortion.
I think it was Dave Barry who said that if you forget to turn off your turn signal for more than five minutes, the car should automatically turn that direction
You just caused a horrible crash in my imagination! Stop it!
Load More Replies...I'm trying not to ridicule the USA. Articles like this make it extremely hard not to make fun of "murica! I am really, honestly trying, but come on, at this point you can't even blame me for thinking americans are uneducated, stupid and ignorant... (don't tell me about the 1 post that wasn't about americans, we all know better). The post should be titled "41 'murica solutions to 41 'murica things"
BP asked for dumb solutions to dumb problems. These people know their solutions are dumb, that's why they submitted them. Therefore, these people are smart enough to know the difference between dumb and not dumb. It's a joke. Can you tell the difference between joke and not joke?
Load More Replies...The double blinker. The double blinker would indicate a u-turn if in the left most turning lane. It would also be used to indicate a multi-lane change while moving. Basically a way of telling another driver I need to get all the way over, not just trying to get in front of you.
I make u-turns about 3-5 times a week. I have been (in my head) designing a u-turn signal and trying to figure out how I would wire it into my trailer. I would need a control on the dash and a link to my (in North America) regular left turn signal.
Load More Replies...#31 Stop posting 2 year old content from reddit on Bored Panda.
I have one! Stop Bored Panda commenters from leaving humorless pedantic replies on posts that are clearly tongue in cheek.
some pf these actually harms the earth in the long run, but they DID ASK for their dumbest ideas, soooo
Best silly idea I heard that seemed valid was by Chris Rock. He suggested bullets should cost some ridiculous amount of money each. That way if someone shot a person you know it wasn't by accident.
My dumb idea is to mount a knife blade in the steering wheel connected to the bumper so if a car driver hits a pedestrian, the driver gets stabbed. There are too many accidents from drivers who get no punishment at all when they just say "I didn't see him" -- if the driver was in just as much danger as the pedestrian, they'd actually look for pedestrians. I've had many close calls from drivers approaching a red light and rolling through to make a right turn on red and didn't even see me already in the cross walk because they were only looking for cars, not pedestrians.
Try not assuming that people were being careless, and simply legit didn't see you. Honest mistakes do happen, you know. Also, if it is happening "many times" it is very possible the problem is in fact with the commonality the incidents share...you. If the light is red, you shouldn't be crossing, dumbass.
Load More Replies...The "No Money Party". Create a political party in the United States whose sole purpose is to prove that a candidate can get elected to a federal office (Rep or Sen) with zero political contributions. It would be based purely on social media and volunteers could print out posters or post online. The candidate would be completely neutral and base all of their decisions on polling results. The party would be disbanded after achieving its goal. It would be a purely philosophical test and, if successful would weaken the power that money has over our elections.
Be a kind human being to make up for the oxygen you are sucking up in the atmosphere
Ok absolutely mad idea for here in the USA but employees are encouraged to talk about their wages to help ensure fair and equitable wages for everyone according to their experience and skills, not according to who management hangs out with on lunch.
Those who deny pandemics and are anti vaxxers should not be treated for the diseases they deny existed or refuse to be vaccinated for. Those who cannot be vaccinated due to previous health conditions are exempt.
Ok here's my idea. We already have the ability to grow ears on the backs of rats so why not make little photosynthesizers that can be tattooed onto our backs and shoulders in cool designs so that the majority of our energy could be generated directly from sunlight? Of course we would still eat occasionally for fun and take in all our essential vitamins and protein and stuff but it would make a huge impact on reducing our food-related footprint on the planet.
Ok. SO hear me out. Phone companies are seriously sleeping on a "projector mode" for phones. It could come out of the flashlight, and they can basically cast their phone screen onto any surface. It would be better for your eyes, cause you're not looking directly into the screen, and do you REALIZE how much people would rather buy a phone over a whole projector and screen so they can use it twice a year. And it would be so much more portable!
An adjustable mirror on the back of my car so I can reflect HIGH BEAM HEADLIGHTS back into the face of the vehicle behind me. Especially effective when stuck in a drive-thru food place line at night.
Every person who tells me I HAVE to become pregnant, after I have said I don’t want to, immediately becomes pregnant with no right to an abortion.
I think it was Dave Barry who said that if you forget to turn off your turn signal for more than five minutes, the car should automatically turn that direction
You just caused a horrible crash in my imagination! Stop it!
Load More Replies...I'm trying not to ridicule the USA. Articles like this make it extremely hard not to make fun of "murica! I am really, honestly trying, but come on, at this point you can't even blame me for thinking americans are uneducated, stupid and ignorant... (don't tell me about the 1 post that wasn't about americans, we all know better). The post should be titled "41 'murica solutions to 41 'murica things"
BP asked for dumb solutions to dumb problems. These people know their solutions are dumb, that's why they submitted them. Therefore, these people are smart enough to know the difference between dumb and not dumb. It's a joke. Can you tell the difference between joke and not joke?
Load More Replies...The double blinker. The double blinker would indicate a u-turn if in the left most turning lane. It would also be used to indicate a multi-lane change while moving. Basically a way of telling another driver I need to get all the way over, not just trying to get in front of you.
I make u-turns about 3-5 times a week. I have been (in my head) designing a u-turn signal and trying to figure out how I would wire it into my trailer. I would need a control on the dash and a link to my (in North America) regular left turn signal.
Load More Replies...#31 Stop posting 2 year old content from reddit on Bored Panda.