• kboos1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    $19. I’ve seen enough evil genie movies. It will never be tomorrow, it’s always today. Tomorrow is the promise of today.

  • nieceandtows@programming.dev
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    15 days ago

    I’ll take the 7 billions dollars tomorrow. Even if it’s some Ugadogobindan dollar where 7 billions of it is worth less than $19, the max I lose is $19, so I’m gonna take that risk.

  • 1800doctorb@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I’m worried about the taxes due on that $7 billion. With tax brackets and that math, I’d probably come out ahead with the $19. This is why I’ve declined every raise I’ve been offered, don’t want to slip into that next tax rate.

  • yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 days ago

    Spoiler - I’m from future, very next week to be exact, and I have some news for Ya.

    Tomorrow, exactly 18 hours from I’m commenting now, Epstein files will leak. Whole murica will collapse within next 2 hours. Dollars as currency will collapse instantly too!

    7 billions dollar will be worthy less than 19 today, if You manage to exchange the currency to any other - get value of $19.

    Actually, unsure, depends if 7 billions gonna be in coins, paper or digital money. That amount of paper could be worth little more than $19 (that paper is not burnable, so still meh), coins, as metal, should be worthy way more.

  • CoryCoolguy@lemmy.myserv.one
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    15 days ago

    I’m getting $7,000,000,019. How? Well I take the $19 right now for starters. Then I spend the next 24 hours trying to think of a plan to secure the 7B as well.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I don’t think I’d want to be a billionaire. A hundred million? Yeah. But, any more than that I think fucks too hard with the head. It’s an impossible amount to understand, and the power that comes with it corrupts.

    You might say, “then, just give most of it away”, and yeah, that makes sense, but I don’t know how fast it happens. I don’t know if I’d be able to. I think once I realized it was really mine, it might be hard to “just give it away”. I don’t know what that corruption feels like.

    And, I’m not sure I want to.

    No. I’ll take the $19 and I’ll leave being a billionaire to the people who handle it so well.

    • Pyr@lemmy.ca
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      14 days ago

      I would have to put it away in some locked account that only pays interest each year and doesn’t let me have any access for like 20 years. Otherwise it would be gone in 4 months.

    • ninjakttty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Ok here’s the plan.

      Day one you give all the money to me and I’m gonna give you a challenge.

      You’ve got to spend 3 billion in 30 days. You can’t own anything, you can’t destroy the money, you can’t give it away, and it has to be totally secret. If you do that then you get $100 million otherwise if you fail you get $19.

      Everyone’s happy problem solved, and I think there might be some wacky hijinks involved