Japanese Business Tycoon Is Giving Away $9 Million As A Social Experiment

(source)–Japanese fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa is giving away $9 million to his Twitter followers in what he says is a “social experiment” to see if the payment boosts their happiness.

Maezawa will give 1 million yen ($9,000) to 1,000 followers selected at random from those who retweeted a Jan. 1 post, with the impact of the money to be tracked through regular surveys.

“It’s a serious social experiment,” said Maezawa on YouTube, adding he hopes to attract interest from academics and economists.

First things first…I desperately want to be introduced as a tycoon. Of all the terms that mean “this guy has fuck you money and giant dick and even if his dick is small it doesn’t matter because he’s a tycoon” it’s the best. Better than mogul. Better than captain of industry or robber baron. WAY better than magnate because that sounds like magnet and people will be like “huh, what?”. If you’re a tycoon you sound like a storm of money and that is bad ass.

Anyways…complicated social experiment here. I would LOVE to have a free $9000. In the moment it would make me EXTREMELY happy. All oustanding debt erased. Big fancy dinners. Maybe take a trip. And before you know it while I am having the time of my life blowing a free $9k I feel shame for having blown a free $9k. There’s the rub. $9,000 at one time is a nice chunk of change for 99.9% of the population, but in reality it doesn’t really fix anything. And more than anything…I feel immediate anger because I didn’t see his tweet in time and don’t speak Japanese

Apparently that says the application process for the free money has closed. FUCK this guy. Promised me a shot at free money and took it away. That is some bullshit.

In reality I think this was a social experiment for himself. Like…if you can get so many new people knowing your name and begging you for money and you hold their happiness in your hands.. how would that make you feel? I bet it feels pretty sweet. Now everyone knows you’re a tycoon the world over, which was probably always his goal.