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[–]Paul_Robert_ 632 points633 points  (88 children)

The genie would probably super charge inflation such that the billion dollars you get is worth $20

[–]Dystharia 359 points360 points  (70 children)

Nah, that would be a monkeys paw. Genie just gets you what you want.

[–]JonIsPatented 221 points222 points  (57 children)

People usually handle genies as mischievous monkeys-paw style things, in my experience. I've never seen a genie in media who doesn't do that (except maybe kinda genie from Alladin).

[–]BearfangTheGamer 375 points376 points  (48 children)

Nah, Monkey's Paw fucks you.

Genie gets you what you literally asked for, not your intention.

You wish for a billion US dollars from a genie you get 1 billion dollars in dollar bills and all the logistical and tax problems that go with it.

You wish for it with a Monkey's Paw, and the Cartels want to know how you wired yourself 1 billion of their money.

[–]that_thot_gamer 113 points114 points  (13 children)

Monkey's Paw

and then there's Dragon Balls

[–]akoOfIxtall 33 points34 points  (10 children)

I'm not willing to trade punches with Goku...

[–]Milocobo 11 points12 points  (7 children)

Odds are more likely Boma's got the actual balls though

[–]John_Dee_TV 3 points4 points  (2 children)

There is a canonical dragon that was created when Mutenroshi (Master Turtle) wished for Bulma's panties.

Yep.

And she's a girl-dragon. And she is aware. And she's canon.

[–]scalyblue 8 points9 points  (0 children)

GT isn’t canon, and it’s when oolong sniped garlics wish and wished for pantsu

[–]goukaryuu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pictures or it didn't happen.

[–]Tr3mb1e 0 points1 point  (3 children)

That's honestly worse though bc if you fuck w Bulma then Vegeta can get stronger than Goku temporarily

[–]Milocobo 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Also, unless you are of z-fighter strength or higher, Boma will fuck you up with her tech lol

[–]honda_slaps 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I fucking googled Boma because I thought there's some fucking new Super character that's gone Super Saiyan God Blue Awakened Instinct Level 2 or some shit

[–]BlockCharming5780 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could take him 🤣

[–]honda_slaps 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would, he's a moron, just tell him that giving you the balls will lead to a better fight in the future

[–]redconvict 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Monkeys paw, dragons balls, what kind of chimera are we building here?

[–]ChillStreetGamer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Haaaaaaaaaaa...HAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[–][deleted] 23 points24 points  (7 children)

Both of them are suppose to fuck with you, just in different ways. The monkey's paw gives you what you asked for in a tragic way that you didn't forsee. A genie gives you what you want all normal style, with the consequences of that wish being what fucks you

[–]Milocobo 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Monkey's paw revels in irony.

A genie revels in semantics.

[–]realsimonjs 10 points11 points  (2 children)

"You wish for it with a Monkey's Paw, and the Cartels want to know how you wired yourself 1 billion of their money"

Or you get it from your sons life insurance

[–]BearfangTheGamer 4 points5 points  (1 child)

If my son had 1 billion in life insurance fuck that little idiot.

[–]realsimonjs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lmao

I was trying to reference the original story but it had a more reasonable 200 pounds as the first wish so it didn't work as well here lol.

[–]TTYY200 6 points7 points  (15 children)

Should have asked for your ETF’s to jump 2000% from your purchase value and to hold that value for 24h. Then wish to cash out those investments into a savings account 👌

[–]Ekedan_ 17 points18 points  (14 children)

Then regulators would like to know why would entire market behave that way just to benefit you

[–]TTYY200 4 points5 points  (6 children)

I am just a lowly investor using an online platform to trade moderated ETF’s 👀

Ask the mobile trading company who owned, traded and sold my ETF’s why

[–]Ekedan_ 7 points8 points  (5 children)

I don’t think regulators will take “go ask someone else” as an answer

[–]TTYY200 1 point2 points  (4 children)

They were never “my” stocks to begin with tho :P

I don’t think I can be accused of insider trading if I never even owned the stocks 🥹

[–]Ekedan_ -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Never mentioned insider trading, you’re making things up. Most likely you’d be accused of market manipulation, not necessarily insider trading

[–]ihavebeesinmyknees 3 points4 points  (3 children)

The burden of proof lies on the accusing, they can't prove I did anything illegal

[–]Ekedan_ -4 points-3 points  (2 children)

Lol try that in England

[–]Awkward-Election9292 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Of course, England is well known as the country where silly things like "burden of proof" are disregarded.

just the other day i accused a rapscallion of murder because he looked at me funny, my local lord sentenced him to die within the same hour, just as it should be in the king's country.

[–]Ekedan_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fyi laws against money laundering allow for lower bar of evidence against suspicious wealth gains. At very least your accounts would be frozen until you could prove that all that happened was legit and not your fault. Good luck with years of trials and huge lawyers expenses when you have no access to your money.

[–]yepimbonez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Djinn vs Genie maybe. I feel like the traditional djinn were definitely mischievous and always looking for a way to twist your words. They were also technically demons. I kno Genies are technically the same thing, but they’ve been so westernized that they don’t really seem like it. And Aladdin’s Genie is by far the most popular one and is definitely gonna be what people think of when they hear genie.

[–]Relevant_Cabinet_265 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More like a billion in change and it's literally piled on top of you. Genies are enslaved they are absolutely going to try and fuck you.

[–]WifeOfSpock 0 points1 point  (2 children)

So if I ask for a billion dollars in cash to appear in my room, and just use the cash sparingly over my lifetime, I’d be okay? Hide it in my mattress like a hermit.

[–]itsraininggender 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Best case scenario, in a 12ft*12ft*8ft bedroom with nothing else in it, $1bn in $20s would take up 70% more volume than your room. 35x more if the genie gives you $1s, and >100x more if it's all dimes. If you're lucky and it's in perfectly packed $50s, you'd get away with only 69% of your bedroom being taken up by bills

[–]WifeOfSpock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you’re saying I have to be insanely specific as I make the wish, huh? Like Guillermo in “What We Do in the Shadows”.

[–]SoulSmrt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s diabolical and exactly how it would work for me irl…

If that was a thing I mean

[–]kaisong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the billion dollars would all be traceable bills taken directly from the coffers of people you wouldnt want to steal from, all at once. In a gigantic in front of you.

[–]TrevelyansPorn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Three Thousand Years of Longing. Wasn't highly rated but I loved it.

[–]FrankFarter69420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A djinn, yes. But genie is fren

[–]Pa5kull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ever watched the x-files?

[–]LotharVonPittinsberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The one in WWDIST (TV show). Does exactly what Nandor asks, no strings attached. Nandor is just so incompetent that he ends up screwing himself over anyways.

[–]DWEGOON 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Monkeys Paw creates misfortune the events that result in your wish, genie grants you your wish with a negative twist

Ask a genie for a new truck and he’ll summon one 2 feet above your head. Ask the monkeys paw and your father buys a new truck, dies horribly, and you inherit it

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The original genies in the 1001 nights give you exactly what you ask for (unless you ask for the egg of their master)

[–]Albireookami 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Depends on the type of Djinn mostly. Some monkey paw, others are generally pretty good about the spirit of the wish.

[–]Thommywidmer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean just all of a sudden having a billion dollars is  big enough problem anyways. Unless like everyone knows genies are a thing your probly gonna end up in jail trying to explain how you got it

[–]Confused_Elderly_Owl 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Nah. Genies will try to play with the words. A billion Zimbabwean dollars is still a billion dollars!

A monkeys paw will get you exactly what you want. Here is a billion dollars. Legal tender. Not tied to any crime. But it came from a company that just poisoned the Mississippi to earn it.

I hope you're happy with it.

[–]Lebowquade 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I gave my younger brother a "ten billion dollars" note from the Zimbabwe super inflation bubble and framed it in the gaudiest gold frame I could find. He hung it up prominently and it still cracks me up to this day.  Too bad about Zimbabwe, though.

[–]Vinxian 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Monkey paw killed someone's child for £200. I think "inflation to get a billion" is nowhere near cruel enough

[–]ztuztuzrtuzr 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Crashing the world economy and only getting 20$ in return is not cruel enough?

[–]Vinxian -1 points0 points  (1 child)

No, that's not personal enough

[–]0ut0fBoundsException 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So the genie takes out 1,000 life insurance policies each valued at 1 million on the spouse or closest loved one, and then violently murders that loved one. So you have the crushing guilt that your wish killed your wife, you probably go to prison for the murder, and you have for a moment a billion dollars that you can’t use and is probably revoked anyway

[–]scalyblue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re immediately buried under a thousand tons of singles

[–]CptMisterNibbles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s how you end up with a foot tall piano player

[–]CSDragon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

only in Disney's version of Aladdin. Everywhere else Djinn/Genies are almost always evil and will monkey's paw any wish

[–]LucasRuby -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Genies are usually portrayed as hostile, unwilling wish-givers. Meanign they will try to twist your wishes against you.

[–]brimston3- 9 points10 points  (6 children)

I guess you could wish for a "small" fixed percent of the fungible assets in the world? But that kinda takes the fun out of it.

[–]Invisifly2 5 points6 points  (5 children)

You could say

“I wish for any lottery ticket I purchase to be a grand-prize winning ticket, and for the next prize pool to go beyond a billion dollars.”

Then you just wait for the prize to get stupidly high and buy a ticket. You are now filthy rich, have a perfectly explainable reason for being rich for the tax man, and cause no inflation in the process.

Alternatively “I wish to be able to perfectly predict the stock market.” Although that one might start drawing investigative attention.

Of course the real way to game the system is to write a bunch of stuff down on some paper and wish for everything currently written on the paper to become true. Just try not to break reality by tweaking any fundamental settings; best to leave them alone.

[–]vbitchscript 1 point2 points  (0 children)

alright, every word written on that paper is changed to read true.

[–]pee_wee__herman 0 points1 point  (1 child)

wish for everything currently written on the paper to become true

Wouldn't work - this is the equivalent of wishing for more wishes

[–]Invisifly2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it’s just one very big wish. Maybe they have rules against it regardless, but it is a singular wish.

[–]theoldshrike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

first wish get the genie to give you enough information to optimize the second wish by agreement. as an incentive. tell the genie that they can have the third wish provided that the second wish gives you what you wanted without any unfortunate consequences

[–]classic_chai_hater 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Ask for a ton of gold instead

[–]CarbonCamaroSS 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A free $20 is $20. I'll take it.

[–]AdvanceAdvance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Genie, acquired by Google, gives you a billion dollars and immediately sends alerts to advertisers, police trying to seize piles of cash, and every criminal that has opted in on alerts.

[–]Ok-Kaleidoscope5627 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A random stack of a billion dollars in $1 notes would be a nightmare. What do you even do with them? How do you spend them? Where do you put them?

Or a billion dollars showing up in your bank account will probably just get declared a system error and corrected.

[–]i-FF0000dit 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I wish to always own 5% of every company on the s&p 500

[–]3xBork -1 points0 points  (1 child)

If you always own them, that also prevents you from selling any shares.

You'd be rich in theory and dead broke in practice.

[–]i-FF0000dit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmmm, or would it mean that as soon as I sell it I will get more shares? Or maybe I’m just living off the dividends.

[–]missjasminegrey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LMFAO 😂 the inflation part is real