A bird in hand is worth 2 in the bush. Boom now I have 14 billion dollars
I dunno, I could really go for a pizza right now…
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?”
Always take the lump sum!
I don’t think I’d want to be a billionaire. A hundred million? Yeah. But, any more than that I think fucks too hard with the head. It’s an impossible amount to understand, and the power that comes with it corrupts.
You might say, “then, just give most of it away”, and yeah, that makes sense, but I don’t know how fast it happens. I don’t know if I’d be able to. I think once I realized it was really mine, it might be hard to “just give it away”. I don’t know what that corruption feels like.
And, I’m not sure I want to.
No. I’ll take the $19 and I’ll leave being a billionaire to the people who handle it so well.
Just push the money toward a good cause. You don’t have to be a billionaire for long.
Go to casino and put it all on black.
No, red.
No, no, black! Yeah, black…
Ok here’s the plan.
Day one you give all the money to me and I’m gonna give you a challenge.
You’ve got to spend 3 billion in 30 days. You can’t own anything, you can’t destroy the money, you can’t give it away, and it has to be totally secret. If you do that then you get $100 million otherwise if you fail you get $19.
Everyone’s happy problem solved, and I think there might be some wacky hijinks involved
I would have to put it away in some locked account that only pays interest each year and doesn’t let me have any access for like 20 years. Otherwise it would be gone in 4 months.
$19 right now. Then I have it right now. Tomorrow never comes so I wouldn’t get that 7B.
Sounds like a promise a drug addict would make
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.
That would be so cool
Amen.
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.
Very smart. You should teach a class on this stuff.
For one easy payment of $19 today and one really hard payment of $7B tomorrow.
I see you’ve also read the Facebook comments on similar posts. Another popular one is “$19 right now is a sure thing but I could die in my sleep, I’ll take the $19”.
Nice try J. G. Wentworth
$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
$19 right now. It says “7 billions dollars”, and there’s no real currency called billions dollars.
19, duh, it’s a bigger number than 7.
I’m worried about the taxes due on that $7 billion. With tax brackets and that math, I’d probably come out ahead with the $19. This is why I’ve declined every raise I’ve been offered, don’t want to slip into that next tax rate.
20.bucks is 20 bucks
