Unethical number game suggests that if you invest 5mil into property now, you’d soon afford to double that, then quadruple that, then… By the end of said term, every square meter of Earth would hold some kind of an empty apartment complex.
No matter how you invest them, they won’t be worth a single dollar in 5 million years so rather take the second option
I’d pick the dollar in 5 million years. At first my choice may seem absurd to financially illiterate people, but it’s called “passive income”, which is the key to getting rich beyond your wildest dreams.
How about 5 Billion now?
After taxes, you’d only have like $4.9 billion. That’s how they get you. You’d be better off taking the dollar in 5 million years and letting it grow.
You do know that interest earned is also taxed right? Letting it grow means you pay every year of how much it grew.
That’s why I’m waiting 5 million years to let it grow. I’m skipping 5 million years worth of taxes.
Money doesn’t bring happiness
But it can buy a jet ski. Ever see a sad person on a jet ski?
(Stolen from… Tosh? I think?)
Money pls 🥺👉👈
I don’t want to be happy. I want a house, clothes, and food. And a significant coffee and Scotch budget.
“5 million in a year”
That year is 2143. And the US dollar has been defunct since 2028 (probably). Enjoy
5 million years. It might be nice to live that long
If the wish granter were powerful and genuine in how it was implemented it might also guarantee continuation of the human race for 5 million years.
And yet after five million years, long after humanity as a whole has fallen, you live. Standing in a grassy hill which once was New York City, you look upon the horizon.
Meanwhile somewhere within conrecete cave, deep under millions of years worth of dirt, some ancient server stirred to life, powered by some unknown magic. With it’s last spark of energy it processed operation kept within buffer, reassigning value of one between two different datasets.
As soon as it happened, you felt relief and gave out last labored breath of life, letting it finally go…as you earned the dollar you wished for.
Nope no sir because then the dollar has no meaning. For the dollar to be real there must be a state or group of people who accept the dollar as payment for goods or services or it isn’t currency.
I feel like it may be more visually poetic - standing there, as a breeze blows dust past you, a dollar bill flies into your hand, somehow inexplicably preserved. Any archeological record of paper currency is long gone, so even if there was a human civilization, this strangely ornamented picture of a man’s head with various shapes around it would be alien.
Clearly the better choice. (Edit: vs. $5m in a year, not paper vs. a server.)
Love it! Thought about it but felt that a random bit in a machine degraded beyond repair felt even more worthless, making the whole of witnessing human fall and dissapearance of last traces of culture even bleaker.
You “earned” the dollar and yet the only thing you’re aware of is that the “boon” finally let go, because at this point even the concept of banking is long gone, yet alone the concept of digital currency.
But you, friend, are clearly superior in the art of poetic description ^^
so many ways that wish would go wrong.
ain’t worth the risk mate
I didn’t ask for six million I ain’t greedy
After 5 million years, a pristine dollar bill will be a priceless historical artifact. I’ll take that.
If money doesn’t exist then what would you even sell it for maaaan
If choosing the second option guarantees I would still be alive to receive that dollar, then hell yeah.
I’d think living for five million years would be a curse more than anything else
Yeah but… Fuck it; I’ve got nothing better to do.
Exactly why it’d be a curse
But I’d be, like, metabolizing and stuff the whole time!
It’s not a commitment on our side though, we can stop living when we want to between now and 5 million years later. Imagine loving it and reaching 4999999 years though…
You will die, come back to receive your dollar, then immediately did again.
I’m sorry.
Oops I did it again.
Ah fuck, I wanted to say that. 😅
So you’ll receive the dollar and then just die? That’s almost like not getting the dollar at all. Think about that
A wise man once said “money can’t buy happiness, but i’d rather die holding one dollar than die holding zero dollars”
Another wise man said: money doesn’t make you happy, but when you’re sad, you’d rather cry in a taxi than in the subway.
If, in 5 million years, we are still using dollars, then we deserve to be turned into whatever compound Zeeblorp is interested in schmearing on his bagel.
We’ll be using the Eurodollar by 2077. I don’t know what the exchange rate is from dollars to eddies.
Just get a chip from a hotel room, and you’ll have all the eddies you’l ever need, I promise
Great, now I’ve got that dude from the Matrix in my head talking about how his dick is bigger than mine.
At last they still have bagels!
If there’s no humus to be had, then humanity is doomed anyway.
Nothing like a good hummus bagel.
It will be Galactic dollar, no US dollar.
All the compound interest calculators on websites refuse to go over 100 years so I guess I’ll just take the 5 mil 😭
The interest is zero. That’s the joke
If there is enough deflation, that dollar could actually be worth billions in today’s dollars!
I want to get off Mr Bones Wild Ride
Oh but the fees are non-zero!
That can’t be right, no bank could be so evil
Sucks
You can calculate it manually as Future Value = Present Value * ( 1 + Interest in integer form )^number of terms
So for example a $1 at 6% APR for 5,000,000 years would be
F = $1 * ( 1 + 0.06 )^5,000,000
F = $12,615,609 if I’m not too tired to think straight rn
I think technically that does outperform inflation so you will have slightly more purchasing power than $1 today.
I knew someone would pull out their textbook and do the math if I played dumb. Weaponized incompetence wins again!
Are you my wife?!
If “interest money” and “advertising” disappeared the whole world would implode, or get better. Who knows?
I have no desire to live that long. You’d see modern civilization fall and most likely massively catastrophic events play out.
Maybe if I could keep they knowledge I currently have and the body of 25 year old me then maybe I’d consider it.
It says nothing about interest, just that you’d get a dollar. There would be 5 million years of inflation that devalues that dollar and to top it all off we’d all be dead in 5 million years for roughly around 5 million years lol
I don’t want to be alive 5 million more years to wait for my dollar. I’ll take the 5,000,000 in just one year.
5 million years, because bread tastes better than key
Would rather get a dollar in 5 million years. I was never book smart, instead I’m money smart. It makes me more intelligent.
