Even moderately rich people have a variety of loopholes.
* Turn a camel into a fine slurry that can be easily put through the eye of a needle.
* Commission a very big needle.
Or the classic redefinition of rich: most people that complain about the rich always seem to mean someone richer than they are. E.g. If you're writing on HN you are the rich.
I like this direction. But the passage talks about the ease of doing so.
I propose something like a wood chipper attached to a conveyor belt that runs through a giant needle and deposits the remains on the other side. You could use an excavator to lift the camel into the chipper just to make sure there’s almost zero effort involved
In building such a device, you will have saved all of humanity, rich or poor from the eternal fires.
Just make it easy: there is an obvious market gap. It should be highly profitable: the market segment is rich old gullible Christians.
I can see 3 levels:
1: camel slurry as a service. An Australian company (you get paid to cull feral camels there - extra profit) - paid for at a dedicated website - with a personalized certificate mailed for completion. Easy.
2: personalized. You travel to the machine in a suitable country and do your own camel. Bring your own needle.
3: home service - for the ultra-wealthy. Harder to do due to animal product export/import laws. Pesky laws - rich people don't need to bother about those or can find the loopholes.
You mention the theoretical tragedy of the commons problem (do you need to do your own camel, or does one machine cover all mankind?). So perhaps your buyer is an evangelical church (or believers that the bible is literal truth?). Or set up a charity.
Personally, I think if you are going to sell something as intangible as salvation, it is only ethical to sell it as many times as possible to as many people as possible! After all a salvated person has no more use for their money.
How about a crowdfunded nanomaterial syringe, $666,000 goal. Convince them that vaporizing the camel is a solved problem (such-and-such lasers, plasma cutter, whatever). We just need to prove the feasibility of a non-permeable, non-clogging conduit and this loophole (pardon the pun) will be closed. Then just do a rugpull.
You're forgetting that there's a secondary market for these things, similar to how subsistence farming is largely gone in lieu of the supermarket. Just purchase a share of camel slurry, and you're solid.
Actually, now that I mention it, that seems to be quite a bit like Jesus' problem with the currency conversion specialists in the temple: commoditization of something meaningful can lead to evil.
* Turn a camel into a fine slurry that can be easily put through the eye of a needle.
* Commission a very big needle.
Or the classic redefinition of rich: most people that complain about the rich always seem to mean someone richer than they are. E.g. If you're writing on HN you are the rich.