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I’d be willing to linearly downscale.
I am sure that for me 3 Million is more than i could ever reasonably spend for the rest of my life.
So with 8760 hours in a year, that would be like 53 Minutes. You know what, make it a full hour.
This comment exposes how wrong it actually is, that we allow individuals to become billionaires…
Came here to say that. 30 billion is a stupid amount of money. If down scaling is an option, anyone who considers doing it for a year (for personally owning all the money) is mentally ill.
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I’d spend all 30B within a month absolutely feasting on the rich
Yeah I wouldn’t know what to do with 30 billion. Pay off the mortgage, couple of new cars, irrigate the world’s deserts?
Of all the ways to get 30 billion dollars, this would probably be the least emotionally disturbing choice.
Only ethical billionaire
Of course they’d be a fucking nutter once released
Inherit it from parents who… Ok, I see your point
Eh, it doesn’t make you immoral to inherit money from an evil person, but it’s immoral to keep it.
The intended implication was that these may not be the best parents. The comment above was about being emotional disturbed. Sure, it was about choices but let’s read over that
If the year in solitary confinement doesn’t turn you into a psychopath the $30 billion will!
Here’s an easy way to kill time: try counting and see how close you can get to 30 billion
ironically, I doubt you could count to 30 billion in 1 year…shows how much money that is.
I’ve seen VSauce’s video where Michael does this for like, what, three days? And he’s basically lost it by the end. So while this is tempting, no, I can’t do it.
Don’t forget drawing on the walls with your shit
the phantom shitter strikes again
ew. i use stinky steve’s shit just for the alliteration.
1 year and your insane
Or
Waste your whole life working towards 0.001% of that.
If I can write a will beforehand for who gets it then it’s worth it.
I know we have a decent amount of science pointing to this breaking the mind, but I can’t help but wonder if anything would change knowing an unimaginably great prize was waiting on the other side. How long would it take to count to 30 billion…
How about I do just a few hours for a pro-rated payout?
The reports on the linked wiki page of the use of things like this as torture aside, is there any research / evidence on how things like this affect people who are treated this way voluntarily?
I’ve seen video of someone volunteering to be waterboarded to show that it’s not that bad if you know what’s happening (spoiler—it was still very bad). I’d assume other kinds of psychological torture would be just as hard to deal with, even with full knowledge and consent.
I’ve seen video of someone volunteering to be waterboarded to show that it’s not that bad if you know what’s happening (spoiler—it was still very bad)
Ah yes, renowned edgelord and one of the Four Horsemen of Atheism, Christopher Hitchens
To be fair to him, he didn’t think it would be that bad, said as much then tried it. Afterwards he completely changed his point of view and admitted he was wrong.
sure, he changed his view on that particular thing and that was noble. But him and the other three are arseholes because of the aggressive way they behave(d) towards religious people.
The point of secularism is to allow people to have their faith or lack therof, and have public life not assume one way is correct. They weren’t “atheist figures” they were anti-theistic crusaders, who gave a hand to islamophobes during a time of increased islamophobia during the “war on terror” which laid the foundation of the civil liberties abuses happening today.
i mean, a year is absurd, and that amount of money is meaningless.
how about i just stay in for a day and get 82million instead
vsauce did something like this for 3 days and he nearly lost his mind. i think 2 days max is all us regular people can do
Totally the YouTuber wasn’t playing it up or exaggerating for the engagement.
just cant be wrong ever huh?
If my opponent is named Vsauce I will have my doubts.
Yeah, the arbitrary cash amounts in these would you memes are always a little goofy, as if the creator thinks 30-billion is so high that anyone seeing it will start screaming “YAAASSSS GIRL!!” no matter what the challenge. 100-million would be just as effective to the average person. Maybe even 10-million if your wealth aspirations are not to buy a golden palace with twelve Lamborghinis and a rocket pad.
I’m with you. A day or two at most is all I would need to be set for life for anything I would ever want.
I like fancy tech, so I might stick around for a second or third day because fancy tech isn’t cheap.
People in my field refer to it as “backing up the money dump truck to (vendor) HQ” … Just to give some context.
how insidious a trap, thinking like that. you may find yourself stuck there for the year after all! /s
If I were to do something so ridiculous for a full year for the full amount, I wouldn’t be doing it for me. There’s no way I would be able to spend 10Bn in my lifetime on things for me and my immediate family. I don’t think that’s even possible unless we were literally flushing money down the toilet, burning it, or throwing pallets of $100s from a plane while flying over a populated area.
I would use the 10Bn to create things like scholarship funds for colleges, where the only requirement is that you can prove you don’t come from money (and can afford whatever education you want without help).
I would also be donating large amounts to charities and good causes, especially FOSS and things like the Internet archive.
Above and beyond that, I’d likely use my newfound wealth to create a company that builds open source or modular hardware for things currently dominated by big tech. Like mobile phones, specifically Android phones, and supporting companies doing similar work like framework.
I would only take enough to pay off my house, all debts, and for a savings/income fund so that I can live comfortably for the rest of my life without needing to work, both for myself, my spouse, and some members of my immediate family.
While in the box, I would let me ADHD brain wander endlessly and entertain itself, until it gets bored or tired, then sleep and repeat that 365 times.
Exactly my thinking. For $30 billion I don’t care if I come out the other side a mindless husk. I’m leaving instructions before I go in about what to do with the money and improving as many lives as I can.
If I make it out with enough of my mind to enjoy some of it myself then that’s just gravy.
If I survived the year, then spent the next year with $500k worth of therapy to become semi-normalish again, I’m still left with $29.9995 billion dollars. Hell yeah I’ll do it.
And the lights never go out and there is no clock
That is actually recognized as a form of torture.
This is exactly what Jimmy Donaldson (Mr. Beast) did to Jake Weddle, and he didn’t face any consequences.
ITT: people forgetting that prisoners in the US are isolated like this, and it’s literal torture.
You’re not special.
It’s wild to me too because to do that to a patient I have to document every fifteen minutes how it would be an immediate risk to themselves or other people if I let them out and whether or not they’ve sustained any injury or are having any other medical complications. Every two hours I have to offer food, fluids, and the opportunity to use the bathroom. Every four hours I have to get a new order from a doctor and after twelve hours we have to notify the state. And I have to meticulously document ALL of this. The fact that unlicensed non medical personal can just… do it. No MD assessment. No monitoring of their hemodynamic stability. As long as they feel like. That’s fucking WILD.
I like that Lemmy’s first thought is pro-rated payments, and yes, it really does show how much money 30 billion is when you can make millions in an hour. My first thought was, I think I could actually pull out off for the full year.
Most people need some kind of social interaction, including folks with conditions that make that hard. I’m probably not an exception to that but I have learned ways to pass full days of time just story developing and singing and such. Creating characters also helps ward the loneliness, although I think the hardest part is being unable to actually write anything down. I could easily do a year if I had enough paper and a way to draw or write.
