• Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 days ago

    I’d be willing to linearly downscale.

    I am sure that for me 3 Million is more than i could ever reasonably spend for the rest of my life.

    So with 8760 hours in a year, that would be like 53 Minutes. You know what, make it a full hour.

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      17 days ago

      This comment exposes how wrong it actually is, that we allow individuals to become billionaires…

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      17 days ago

      Came here to say that. 30 billion is a stupid amount of money. If down scaling is an option, anyone who considers doing it for a year (for personally owning all the money) is mentally ill.

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        17 days ago

        Why?

        Shouldn’t everyone feel morally responsible for receiving the maximum reward so that they can personally distribute those funds amongst as many people as possible? The other guy is fine with just 3m, so one year of your life apparently could provide 9999 other people with a life of never having to work again.

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          17 days ago

          That is why I said (for personally owning all the money). If someone is selfless enough to spend one year in an insane room so they can give away the money to others, kudos to that person.

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              16 days ago

              I’d probably want to use the money to buy the political influence to end solitary confinement. And also ending private prisons while we’re at it.

  • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 days ago

    ITT: people forgetting that prisoners in the US are isolated like this, and it’s literal torture.

    You’re not special.

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      16 days ago

      It’s wild to me too because to do that to a patient I have to document every fifteen minutes how it would be an immediate risk to themselves or other people if I let them out and whether or not they’ve sustained any injury or are having any other medical complications. Every two hours I have to offer food, fluids, and the opportunity to use the bathroom. Every four hours I have to get a new order from a doctor and after twelve hours we have to notify the state. And I have to meticulously document ALL of this. The fact that unlicensed non medical personal can just… do it. No MD assessment. No monitoring of their hemodynamic stability. As long as they feel like. That’s fucking WILD.

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    16 days ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi

    Hamatsu was challenged to stay alone, unclothed, in an apartment for Susunu! Denpa Shōnen, a Japanese reality-television show on Nippon Television, after winning a lottery for a “showbusiness-related job”. Hamatsu was challenged to enter mail-in sweepstakes until he won ¥1 million (about $8,000) in total. Hamatsu started with nothing (including no clothes), was cut off from outside communication and broadcasting, and had nothing to keep him company except the magazines he combed through for sweepstakes entry forms. After spending 335 days to reach the target, Hamatsu set the Guinness world record for the “longest time survived on competition winnings”.

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      16 days ago

      Think of it this way, new game.

      First month you get $0.01, the second month you get $0.02, the third month you get $0.04…

      Keep doubling that for each month you stay in this room, to a maximum of $1.5 Trillion after 4 years.

      Each successive month has a 1% chance of resetting the clock.

      How many months do you stay?

  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org
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    16 days ago

    Practice meditation for a year and have enough money to actually make a difference in this world after. Sounds ambitious but I think I’d have to give it a shot.

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    16 days ago

    Why go out ? I would buy the place and stay there so everyone can fuck off.

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    17 days ago

    Of all the ways to get 30 billion dollars, this would probably be the least emotionally disturbing choice.

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      16 days ago

      As someone who has (voluntarily) done 24 hours in solitary confinement with nothing but a blanket, a toilet, a concrete floor, and one meal a day, I don’t think anyone here will last more than 3 days. That was the longest, most painful 24 hours of my life.