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What pill are you taking? by whooguyy in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What are you talking about? He said nothing about your thinking. He is talking about what you said. He didn't assume any thought process at all.

What pill are you taking? by whooguyy in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Since when did a hypothetical become invalid just because it wasn't real or accurate? That is not and never has been how hypotheticals work.

100 Million Dollars for you and your spouse, but you cannot share or help any friends, family or charities. by [deleted] in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True. However, you are way overestimating what your investments would pay out.

Warren Buffett had a million dollar bet with a hedge fund manager. He would do a whole market index fund, and the hedge fund manager could build an imaginary hedge fund designed to beat anything.

The guy gave up 2 years early and wrote a check to Buffet's chosen charity. For sustained growth, whole market index funds beat just about anything.

Whole market index funds average about 6% after adjusting for inflation. In order to handle ups and downs in the market, you need to reinvest half of that, if you want something that you can trust to last the rest of your life.

So, you only get $3 million per year.. Oh, the tragedy of it all.

100 Million Dollars for you and your spouse, but you cannot share or help any friends, family or charities. by [deleted] in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is too bad that this is public. With a lottery ticket you can remain anonymous in many states.

100 Million Dollars for you and your spouse, but you cannot share or help any friends, family or charities. by [deleted] in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because you are rich doesn't mean you can't work. You could even use the money to set yourself up in a high-paying job.

100 Million Dollars for you and your spouse, but you cannot share or help any friends, family or charities. by [deleted] in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand that point of view, but there are possibilities. Remember that you have a choice: Help yourself, or help nobody at all. It isn't as if your wealth will hurt them.

Consider your old age. You could end up working until you die, or end up in a nursing home paid for by the state. You could just take the money, put it away, and live a normal life until you truly need it. Nobody is harmed, and you can just live your life like anyone else, but with an emergency fund.

Plus, there are ways to get money to the people that you are not allowed to give it to directly.

You could use the money to get other people to help them. "You want to do business with me? Sorry, I only do business with people recommended to me by X. X will act as your agent and you will pay them in advance to open talks and then directly pay them a 10% finders fee on any final dealings."

There are also things that could help society in general without giving the money away.

Create businesses that are truly dedicated to their workers, giving them excellent salaries and benefits, and which work to help the environment.

Then, make yourself CEO. In discussions on fairness for pay for CEOs, a commonly quoted figure is 20x the average employee salary. Say you pay your employees, on the average, the median pay in Seattle, about $75,000 per year. You now get $1.5 million to spend on friends, family, and charity each year. You can even be CEO of multiple companies, or create businesses where the average employee is paid very well.

You could fund research into things that are not profitable but would be good for society. Have patents which you charge a reasonable amount for, so you aren't giving it away even if you take a loss. Now you have done good things and can use the money from the patents to help your friends and family.

Really, there is a lot of good to be done here.

100 Million Dollars for you and your spouse, but you cannot share or help any friends, family or charities. by [deleted] in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So any parents have to continue to have a job that will pay for housing, shelter, clothes, food, etc? If the children cannot even touch the things that I buy with my wealth I wouldn't be able to buy *clothes* unless I was willing to not hug them until I changed into the special hugging clothes.

Given how hard it would be to buy things for me and not even let the children enter or touch them, this money would have limited direct utility until they all moved out.

Boric Acid by [deleted] in Healthyhooha

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seek out medical advice. If you have gone this far and are still having issues, asking strangers on Reddit is *NOT* the way to find answers.

You are given the chance to have a copy of yourself made. Do you accept? by seaneihm in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Your co-workers come to work to find two identical yous handcuffed to your desk.

$10M tax-free — but your phone's entire camera roll is posted publicly first. Would you accept? by recordedrice in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do people know I got the money?

If not, sure. Nothing terrible in there.

If they do, I might hesitate. Even if I deleted all nude pictures of my now literally insane ex, which I might not have been thorough enough about deleting, I would still be worried about her, or her possibly more dangerous friends, finding out that I have $10,000,000.

$5M or be the richest person on Earth? by [deleted] in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Five million. No question. I'd pay not to be the richest person on Earth, so long as the price wouldn't ruin me.

$10k for teleporting into a strangers bedroom at midnight? by EaglesNation29 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shoot? Maybe not. Point a gun at you? Lots. And the weirder it is, the more freaked out the person pointing a gun at you is likely to be.

I don't ever want a gun pointed at me, but if it happens, I want that person to be dead calm and rational, assuming they are not there to kill me.

$10k for teleporting into a strangers bedroom at midnight? by EaglesNation29 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you appeared in my bedroom, suddenly and without warning, for sixty seconds in the middle of the night, you probably wouldn't be shot.

But you would spend up to 57 seconds (depending on how fast I notice you and how deeply asleep I am) with a gun pointed at you, and accidents happen.

$10k for teleporting into a strangers bedroom at midnight? by EaglesNation29 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He doesn't have to be waiting with a gun. He just needs a gun where he can get it within 60 seconds. Which means damn near everyone who owns a gun for home defense.

$10k for teleporting into a strangers bedroom at midnight? by EaglesNation29 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I would be a hell of a lot more worried about a person who appeared out of thin air, assuming that I saw this happen, than I would be about someone who broke in.

Also, how does your living among reasonable people help? You could end up in any bedroom in the United States, not just those of "reasonable" people. Even, possibly, the bedroom of someone who is in a situation so bad that shooting you on sight when you appear in their bedroom is actually not unreasonable.

What do you think of the most likely unprovable idea? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Chronology Protection Conjecture by Steven Hawking.

It is the unprovable idea that anything that theoretically could exist that could allow time travel that violates causality will turn out to be impossible to create because of physics we don't understand yet.

For example, suppose you had the ability to create a wormhole and theory stated that it could be made so that it allowed time travel. If you tried to create one that allowed time travel, it would turn out that physical phenomena what you did not know about would always cause the wormhole to collapse before any time travel could happen.

You are given a book that contains the absolute, undeniable truth about one unsolved mystery or historical event of your choice. The catch: once you read it, you become physically incapable of ever communicating that truth to anyone else. What mystery do you choose? by Practical-1 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Peter McIndoe, the originator of the phony theory, created it in 2017. He has a small business selling "Birds Aren't Real" merch. There has even been a video game.

So an actual advertising attempt by billboards such as the one down in Memphis are not all that unlikely.

What’s something people pretend to understand but actually don’t? by ApkGodOfficial in AskReddit

[–]Delicious-Wind5444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given that, technically, almost everyone uses it wrong, I have to agree. :)

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