Absolutely, but mostly if it's people you don't care a whole lot about helping anyway. If you have a very selfless personality and care more about helping others than helping yourself then helping yourself would be the easier wish in this case.
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then I wish for $1 trillion in gold to be discovered in Africa
Congratulations. I bet you're pretty jealous of me tho. I wished for a BLT sandwich.
was your wish granted?
Yeah, I think it was pretty close tho. I fuckin' love sandwiches.
I was hoping to trick the genie by crashing the gold market and pumping my bags of bitcoins