• Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    122·
    3 months ago

    I mean, it is essentially torture (solitary confinement for a year) but for a 30 bil sure.

    My head is not the worst place to be in, I bet I could come out of it only slightly damaged.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Its not like life can’t severely damage you anyway, if there is a chance you could bounce back(-ish) … then sure, I think there is a chance I would give it a go.

      It’s 57 thousand monies a minute.
      3.4 million an hour.

      • fartographer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        3 months ago

        That’s exactly the point. The idea that $100 is an amount of money that would give most people some pause before they spend it, but it’s not an unmanageable amount of money.

        So, how about we’re try counting to 30 billion by hundreds. Even then, it’s a ridiculous task. If you decided to purchase every single thing (that exists) that you’ve ever wanted, you’d go insane just trying to figure out why anyone would ever need that much money.

        Then again, you could not spend it on yourself… then, it becomes super-easy to spend billions of dollars! You could lift entire starving populations into solvency. So, why is no one doing that? Cuz the coolest thing to do with billions of dollars is to build more portfolios and buy politicians.

        Let’s think about this another way: I don’t know how much it costs to hire a hitman, but I feel like $10,000 is a pretty common amount to read in articles about successful hits (followed by arrests). So, assuming $10k is a reasonable price for a hit, $30B is enough to put out hits on almost every single person in USA. People like Musk could afford to hire hitmen to wipe out populations across entire countries, and I’m sure he’s thought about that plenty of times. It’s no wonder he can build self-crashing cars with no remorse. Dude can literally get away with murder, and then afford to murder anyone who tries to arrest or prosecute him.

        I’d rather go insane trying to count to 30 billion than to suffer from whatever brain-rot is going on in the minds of existing billionaires.

    • Seefoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      ironically, I doubt you could count to 30 billion in 1 year…shows how much money that is.

      • SparroHawc@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Once you get into the millions, it takes well over a second to recite each digit of a number. One million is only 1/30,000th of the way in.

        A year is less than 32 million seconds.

        Even if you skipped to 1 million, and somehow managed to get through each number in only a second, and counted every single second of every single day without breaking for sleep, you still would only get a little over a thousandth of the way through 30 billion.

  • Limitless_screaming@kbin.earth
    9·
    3 months ago

    Would definitely do it*.

    • If the assumed necessities are met (lights don’t even need to go off & the water can be warm).

    The option to spend a day and take the 82m if downscaling is an option is wrong; 4Billion for 50days is the deal. Like surely you had a worst 2months and didn’t get to do the following afterwards: set aside 1B to meet your needs and the needs of most people you know without working for a day of the rest of your life, 1B for projects that cannot fail (cushioned by the mountain of money or pile of gold), and 2B for any cause you believe in (go nuts: make a mini utopia, a nationwide dystopia, preserve the status que, or risk it and go after terrible people who would have never felt justice otherwise).

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    Honestly I think it’d be fine. I could practise oral traditions such as storytelling and singing, dance…

    I’d enjoy trying to recall my life story up to that point and eventually be able to remember everything I’ve done and seen in detail, and be able to tell it all conversationally in amusing ways. I’ve never been happy with my autobiographical memory, and I never really tell stories about myself. I bet I could be a more integrated person if I spent time on that.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    31·
    3 months ago

    The list includes things to do so the implied meaning is just that. But it literally says, “nothing”. So everyone assuming there will be food, water, any form of sanitation - you all would jump right in and find out very quickly no way you’re going to last a year. Or even a week.

  • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    111·
    3 months ago

    I’d do it no matter how much it would mess me up, and all that money, except enough to buy a nice house in my city, would be going towards an endowment for a trans charity. Its mission would be multi-faceted, providing direct supports for trans people alongside fighting legal battles. Hopefully that would nullify the contributions of people like J.K. Rowling.