Discover if Money Boosts Happiness Levels: Japanese Billionaire Offers $9 Million to Twitter Followers
Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire, has announced a social experiment in which he will distribute $9 million to 1,000 people on Twitter to gauge its impact on their happiness.
The online shopping mogul made the announcement through a YouTube video, describing the competition as a "serious social trial" to assess the effect of a million yen ($9,000) on 1000 individuals' lives.
He linked the giveaway to the concept of basic income, which involves providing regular unconditional payments to all citizens and has gained support in certain political circles, including from Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang. Maezawa encouraged participants, who only needed to retweet his January 1 post, to use the money "as they like" and...