• zikzak025@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Always take the upfront cash! Currency devalues over time so that 7 billion could be worthless by tomorrow. But $19 invested correctly today could be worth a trillion dollars by tomorrow.

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    Typical askreddit post, lol.

    Would you [moderately be inconvenienced for a somewhat long-ish time] for [ridiculous amount of money]?

    Right up there with all the “have you ever sexy sexed the sexything? Would you if a sexyperson was involved?”

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      “What’s the sexiest sex you’ve ever sexed”

      right up there with “Women of reddit: do you like [absolutely generic and traditionally handsome trait or article of clothing] on men?”

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    I’d wait until 23:58 to make my decision and then go for $19 because who knows what can happen in 2 seconds

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    $19 right now, obviously. If I get hit by a bus and die between now and tomorrow, then I’ll have ended up with nothing

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        No no. There are wealth companies out there that you can pay millions to and they will make sure you don’t have to pay any taxes.

        I’d still take the $19 though. Sure money now is better than potential money in the future.

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          What if I want to pay taxes, can I just enter 7 billion into the online FreeTax USA website?

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    Can I borrow against the 7 billion? Ill find someone to lend me 1 million today and ill give them 2 million tomorrow

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    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.

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    Both. First timeline I take the billion, invented time travel and enter the second timeline to go get the $19 too.

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    I’m about to go to sleep. I’ll sleep better knowing I have $19, but probably wouldn’t sleep at all knowing $7 billion is showing up tomorrow. I don’t think I’m cut out for the billionaire life, but I’m prepared to try.

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    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.