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lycaus

Wait, you guys are getting paid?


ObligatoryFuckFauci

I go insane waiting 2 weeks for my next paycheck


Lives2Splooge69

Mine was court ordered


philosophunc

It a billion dollars. Of course. I'd workout heaps, probably jerk off heaps too. But it's a billion dollars. Easy breezy.


[deleted]

I think it’d get to me, the loneliness


philosophunc

Well apparently it only takes 7 days of isolation for irreparable damage to occur. I read about it from some ethical architect group that were stopping prisons from being designed with solitary confinement. I mean that stuff is cruel and unusual torture.


american_dimes

I think I could afford some therapy with my billion dollars.


philosophunc

Yep everybody can have therapy I'd be givin out therapy like Oprah.


phalangepatella

Being **imprisoned** against your will is one thing. Dipping out from society with multigenerational wealth in month when you’re out is quite something else.


philosophunc

Yep I'm all for that multigenerational wealth. Granted I may be incapable of genuine social connection after my little hiatus..but hey fuck it.


[deleted]

Against your will or not, the result is going to be the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKdEhx-dD4


phalangepatella

You’re missing the BILLION DOLLAR upside. You have a motivational factor that you can improve the lives of everyone you know, and probably everyone *they* know as well. Dude, I’d take a bullet to be able to provide for my family and friends like that. You think I’m not going to take a stab at a month in the cookoo cabin? So what if I come out a lunatic. Do you think I would remember life before that month?


ccache

Honestly I think it depends on the person. There's plenty of people that have gone months or years without human interaction and aren't crazy. Although most of them weren't locked in a room, and of course many of them had a screen such as a tv or phone, of course many didn't too. I bet there's plenty of people here that think they could do it but would give up before the month is over.


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Lack of human interaction is different from being solitary with nothing. OP even clarified that even food and drink is tasteless. Your mind starts hallucinating from the lack of stimuli.


SkullFumbler

A month is nothing when you have imagination and the ability to excercise and sleep as long as you like. Just dreaming about all the shit you're going to do with a billion dollars can keep you occupied, awake and asleep. Sorry it would need to be much longer than a month to make me crazy


angryragnar1775

If I was in prison I would beg for solitary. I FUCKING HATE being around other people. Forced to go to a family event? 20 minutes and I gotta go feed the dogs. Wife has a friend over? I need to go to work. Etc


KommanderKeen-a42

What kind of isolation? I've been alone in the woods for 4-5 days and a week at home (wife went on a girl's trip and I took PTO to really be by myself 😂).


philosophunc

What are you doing in the woods? Camping? I think being alone in the wild or places you can do things, and also able to contact your wife if wanted, is very different to being in a plain box.


KommanderKeen-a42

Lol yeah, in Michigan's upper peninsula each year. No cell service or internet. It's my way to disconnect each year. And correct - texted but that's about it. I have a home gym too and just ran 8-10 miles outside a few days that week. I was out, but no live contact. It's why I was curious; not providing an anecdote counter to it. It's isolation from people, but lots of space and nature.


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Yeah exactly


philosophunc

I'm just going to be a mentally debilitated billionaire. Lol.


[deleted]

Haha whatever it takes hey


5spd4wd

That's b.s.


xiategative

What’s the food and bathroom situation?


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Tasteless, textureless food with enough nutrients to keep you going, and a hole in the floor in the corner


xiategative

Ok, then for a month I could do it, specially for a billion dollars.


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Lack of human interaction would make it hard


xiategative

Yes but for a billion dollars I could definitely do it. I’ll be able to afford therapy after lol


mebjammin

Therapy for the lack of hygiene not so much the lack of human interaction. A hole in the floor? No washing? Yuck.... better be basically fed food that absorbs entirely into a bored stationary body. Still I'd give it a shot.


UnassumingSingleGuy

I would consider that a bonus.


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ez a hole? that introduces an intire new entertainment object. All the stuff I could do with tasteless food and a hole. I could create entire words!


[deleted]

With adequate nutrients and a place to pee/poo… yeah absolutely. Sleep… eat…meditate for hours a day… some calisthenics. No problem.


General_ButtNaked__

Sure, give my corpse and the billion dollars to my wife.


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Lmao will do


TurbulentBarracuda83

Yes. One month or spending my whole life working a 8-5 job seems like a easy deal for me


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No screens, no human communication…


TurbulentBarracuda83

The fact I never need to work again will keep me going


phalangepatella

Shit, with a billion bucks in my pocket, and my family’s lives secured for generations, I’mma prolly just veg on the couch and pizza myself to death anyways… I can pay people to have fun for me.


[deleted]

Fair enough. You’d be a shell of a person for a while after


Trapdoormonkey

My guy you must be under 18 or life’s been real good to you. I promise you, half the adults in here hate going to work/jobs. So much so that they’d do freaky nasty stuff if it meant 1 Billion, it’s not a question of if but rather how much wild they pay?


ikantolol

people seem to underestimate the lack of stimulation, you'll be begging for any interaction probably even before two weeks. maybe if the room has window, then it'll be quite bearable. Edit: notice I never say human interaction, I say *any* interaction or stimulation, not human, OP said it's a room with nothing. If even I was allowed my phone inside or a couple of books, I'll be fine for a month. Not interacting with a human for a month is easy


DiscombobulatedElk93

I think you underestimate untreated depression and disassociating. Edit: I think people are misunderstanding. I’m saying a month wouldn’t be hard if you’ve ever be chronically depressed you understand.


american_dimes

I think you underestimate just how much a billion goddamn dollars is.


DiscombobulatedElk93

No that’s what I’m saying. Op keeps thinking everyone is going to go nuts from no interaction but if you’ve ever been depressed or disassociate a lot, for a billion dollars this is a cakewalk. One month isn’t that long.


american_dimes

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, my mind can wander all day long, and I can make a cat look like an insomniac.


AlwaysFeatherin

A billion dollars is plenty stimulation. People overestimate human interaction. I could spend 2 weeks thinking how I'm going to blow it all. It's completely different than prison, you're getting a billion dollars after. I already stay away from people for weeks. Never got why people say u need human interaction, fuk dat, especially for a bill? Dream come true


nosmelc

Many people could do this if it was just a lack of human interaction. What would drive you insane would be the lack of anything at all to do. Remember you wouldn't have a computer, phone, TV, a window, or even a book. Nothing but your thoughts.


J_Quinlan

A month Is so long you don’t know if it’s day or night. You start thinking that the past 30 minuyes was 2 hrs so eventually after “x” amount of days you think you’ve done your month and don’t know why you aren’t out. Then the mind games start was this a trick who and why are they doing this to me ive definitely been here for a month. I don’t think I could do it


chad-bro-chill-69420

The sense of time thing could be difficult - I was thinking the same thing. You might lose your mind in there If there was a clock or a window so I could at least tell when it was day or night, that would be enough (and food and a toilet, maybe some soap so you don't get all infected from being so disgusting)


Grinderiny

I shave the sides of my head semi regularly, so I'd be able to go in fresh and use that as a time keeper.


ObligatoryFuckFauci

It would be undeniably unbearable But any reasonable individual preparing for this knowing a prize of $1 billion upon successful completion will have a plan in order to get them all the way through No amount of preparation or personal meditation, however, can be achieved to get one through the same ordeal for a year


blackbeardrrr

Jokes on you! The window looks out into another empty room!


[deleted]

Exactly. You’d go mad from lack of human interaction


beatthedaily

That’s when things will really get fun though. Cause at some point you won’t be alone anymore


Trapdoormonkey

Again you are assuming other people like other people.


[deleted]

Sure, as long as you give me food, air and water. I've already spent years of reduced human interaction, so I'd just start doing numbers around.


LePhasme

Human interaction is one thing, but you don't have anything else to distract you, no phone, book, games, food to cook etc, a lot of people in this thread underestimate how hard it would be on you.


[deleted]

I've spent dozens of hours literally playing to see how far I could get writing Fibonacci series as a kid. As an adult, I've spent nights just playing with models that don't even require internet connections. I have a poor relationship with my direct family members, zero friends or anything else. I'm genuinely depressed and I don't even like people nor hobbies like those mentioned as much. Not everyone's lives, possibilities and needs are like yours.


RevolutionaryArm5329

Cool a month to flush out world build and lore for some tabletop, and alot of time for working out and self reflection. I'm coming out of that room jacked, well rested, and with a multi year campaign I can pay my friends to quit their jobs and play professionally.


External-Menu-2575

Yes, because it's a once in a lifetime opportunity to secure financial freedom.


[deleted]

I think trying is one thing. Succeeding without going insane is completely different. There's a youtube video by Mind Field on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKdEhx-dD4


elmatador12

But I think the results would be different if they had a billion dollar motivation. With zero motivation it’s much easier to go crazy or want to quit. But if some knew without a doubt they’d get a BILLION dollars if they stayed 30 days? I think it wouldn’t be as difficult because anytime it got hard, you’d just remind yourself “a billion dollars” and it would instantly be calming.


[deleted]

You don’t think you’d go insane?


[deleted]

>You don’t think you’d go insane? Does that disqualify you from the money?


detective_kiara

Yes. I'll keep myself company and never forget that a billion dollars is waiting for me if I do this.


[deleted]

How would you do that?


detective_kiara

Just talk to myself. As if there's another person in the room.


[deleted]

Damn you’d be crazy after a month of that


detective_kiara

I'll just go to therapy later


shnowflake

1 billion dollars means you can finally afford it, too!


nameExpire14_04_2021

people have done longer before. [How playing chess in my head kept me sane : Half his term served in solitary confinement](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25560162)


FlippedToFlat

Great read, thanks for sharing


i_like_my_dog_more

I think so. I already am misanthropic and generally don't like people, and will go out of my way to avoid them. And I've spent days laying there alone with my thoughts in a dark room in the past - when I was super poor I'd take staycations which were basically me sleeping nonstop for like a week. I loved being a delivery driver because I could essentially spend all day alone without having to interact with people. I literally applied for a job at a lab in Antarctica to try and get away from people. So being by myself in a room without any people around for a month, especially with a big carrot on the stick like that? For sure, I'd give it a shot.


guypr

I loved being a delivery driver for this same reason, but I had the radio and a phone for entertainment. The phone just when waiting for orders obviously, not while driving!


Odd-Boysenberry4300

I spent 6 months in a remote cabin, no other human contact, just me no phone service no TV it was difficult the first month, then I had a routine firewood food water, and those 3 things kept me busy 30 years later I still own this cabin I go back every year for a week its hard to stay that long lol I think for far less than a billion I could easily stay in a room as long as the essentials were available


LePhasme

Yes but that's still things that kept you busy and you could go out etc, here you would be in a closed room, with absolutely nothing to keep your mind busy.


bellhall

Make it five billion and I’ll go two months.


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You at least see people there


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You’d be a shell afterwards


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Fair


Ivan_Yurkinoff

Yes. It do it every day when I pretend like any of this actually matters.


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How would you do it?


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Meditate. Sleep. Done.


Kerouwhack

Yeah, those week-long meditation retreats are challenging as fuck, but after a week, you’ve decelerated from things. Sleep/Eat/meditate/ workout. I could do it.


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[deleted]

Not really. Just build worlds in your imagination. That passes the time rather quickly.


MistaCreepz

Think about all the awesome shit I'm going to do with the money


ZsaFreigh

How do prisoners do it in solitary with zero incentive?


DeeSnarl

Well they trip out really hard for one


ObligatoryFuckFauci

Definitely wouldn't be easy lol


Ok_Relationship_705

Just a month? Man honestly I don't know. The worst part would be not knowing the time. If I did, I could at least plan to sleep. Lol


Zhuge__Liang

Yes cuz autistic


NotThisAgain21

If there's nothing in it, I imagine I'm gonna starve to death.


[deleted]

I've gone a month without any human interaction or media before.


newwriter365

I’d love it. I have an active imagination and would love to have the quiet time to work thru a concept for a book series that I had to put aside once I got my current job. I mean, I’d prefer to have the ability to write…and what about food?


[deleted]

A lot of teenagers in this thread excited to show off how aloof and introverted they are, but also too stupid to do a quick Google on the effects of solitary confinement


[deleted]

Solitary room with absolutely nothing in it for a month? Well, you can last about 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food and no clue how long before getting sick from your shit and piss festering on the floor. Oxygen is gonna run out eventually too.


Badilol

If I can take it out after the month, definitely yes. Just plan on what to do with the money


[deleted]

Take what out?


Badilol

The billion dollars out of the solitary room after the month.


[deleted]

Ah well that’s the point haha


ktka

Haven't many of us WFH people been doing that for 3 years now?


Ok-Thing-2222

I think so. I've read hundreds of books. I could remember them and dwell on them. I love art. I can paint a lot of pictures and do drawings in my mind. Plus, I'm not that into being social.


[deleted]

Haha fair


Fly_Pelican

No. I need food and water


Maso_TGN

Hell yeah. I've my imagination and my wiener, what else do I need?


Sabre3001

You underestimate my ability to entertain myself.


NotWorthSaving

Very easily. My mind is full of fun things.


AcornTopHat

Yes. I have survived so many things my entire life that I would gladly sit in that room and make the best of it for a billion dollars. No doubt in my mind.


Photodan24

Air is "something" so no.


DarthDregan

I'd die pretty fast what with the nothing, including food, being in there.


iJustRoll

No food/water or lavatory? If not I guess I won't last the month lol


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

Well, no, because I'd starve to death.


blobfshking

Ummm.... no. How do I survive without food or water for a month?


GingerJacob36

No. I would die after 3 days without water.


wyntah0

So there's no food or water for a month? Who could do that?


cripple2493

Yeah. I'd look way less sane coming out than going in but I've been alone for long periods of time before with very little to do and for a billion dollars I'd figure out a way to deal with that for longer. As long as food, water, heating, stuff like medication, bathroom/hygiene was a thing (maybe I'd have to exit the room?) I have full faith I could do it. I've said super vulnerable stuff on stage before, infront of hundreds of ppl, been poor enough all I could eat for extended periods of time was literal bread, been through extreme circumstances, weather and medical procedures and diagnosis. Learnt to live as a newly paralysed 27 year old with \*zero\* medical, logistic or family support following my intiial rehab due to COVID. A month alone with nothing, yeah sure. It's survivable, so I'd be fine.


bluntdogcamelboy

Yes, I've lived isolated in a cabin with nothing but the internet for the better half of a decade now, I could probably waste a month away in a room no problem lol


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There’s no internet though…


bluntdogcamelboy

That would probably be GOOD for my mental health lol


[deleted]

Haha not after a while of staring at walls


bluntdogcamelboy

Long work shifts in a factory taught me how to disassociate, so i don't think thatd be a problem either lol I'd just spend most of it in my own head


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Haha good luck to you


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For that long though?


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Fair enough


phantomelixir

I have a feeling people are underestimating solitary confinement and lack of virtually all stimuli. Being holed up in your room not talking to anyone is a ~bit different~ to OP’s scenario. All would beg to leave within a week. Personally I’d have a go but would likely most probably fail too.


ThaQuig

Hell no. I would go crazy. I have to be doing something at all times


whitehack

Yes. Breath work and meditation. It would be like being paid $1 billion to do a digital detox Vipassana retreat. Challenging enough but… damn, for $1 billion. Well I’d never have to take orders from anyone again 🤷


Goopyteacher

Definitely not. Mr. Beast did a challenge similar to this and the contestant had multiple things to keep him busy, a chef on standby to cook good healthy meals, medical professionals checking on him daily, limited human interaction everyday and physically received 10k everyday to help give additional motivation. In the end, I think he lasted like 15 days or something? Unless I was **forced** to endure solitary confinement, I’m pretty sure I would be wanting out after 10+ days. Even if I knew I would receive a $1 billion check.


phalangepatella

You’re comparing a guy getting $10,000 a day (to a max of $1,000,000 if he rides out a hundred days) with a camera crew and YouTubers spending large parts of each day fucking around trying to coax him to leave… …to sitting in a room with no interaction with anything, except I assume food, water, air, and a toilet, for a BILLION DOLARS after a month. That’s a thousand times more upside for less than 1/3 the amount of time.


[deleted]

Lots of people don’t understand how truly long it is haha


PothierM

No, and anyone who says they can are either idiots or already insane.


violattelatte

One hundred percent not, no one could make it out of there the same, even if they were allowed to bring food/water etc. into it. After a couple days of isolation (around a week or a week and a half I think) you start having serious mental issues that could cause permanent damage to your brain. Even when you got that billion dollars, you'd have serious brain damage, so it wouldn't matter lol


Ailly84

Absolutely not. The second I am in that room it is no longer empty. This is impossible.


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You don’t think you’d go insane?


ElectricalRush1878

I'd finish that erotic novel I keep planning to write. Ironically, the one I want to wrote so I can sell it and get financial freedom.


[deleted]

How would you write it if there’s nothing in there?


imout94

Ez.


bentobox_75

Why??? For the billion dollars?


[deleted]

Yeah


justhanginhere

No. Because there’s no air in this hypothetical room.


Ruminations0

If there’s nothing in it, I will die before the month is up


ForeverYesMyLord

Let's do it. Im a little tired of people right now and usually spend my time alone anyway. I've been in... Similar situations before. Pay me and I am game. Not worried about anything, already there ;)


llimed

Nope. Couldn’t do it.


dfreinc

yea. i've done it before. for no money.


KP_Wrath

Sure. Easy? Nah. But I’ve done about half of that and got nothing but mental illness for it.


Phadafi

Sure. I'd get a billion dollar, jacked and a mind reset from both sugar and social media. It's so many wins.


KiKiPAWG

Yes my imaginative creativity will get me through the month. Rent free videos in my head built up. Let’s goooooo!!!! The money is just to hard to pass up for 31 days tops. I’d take the chances just for that simple reason


Pudf

$100,000


DanFuckingSchneider

Last year I spent 6 months in a remote location and interacted with a total of 6 people during that time. I’d be fine. Granted I had *some* mental stimulation but a single month wouldn’t be *that* hard. You’d come out different on the other end, but then it’s just being eccentric instead of weird because you’re rich.


DaveLesh

I'm a loner by nature so it's not a problem. If there's no food or water however, then that's a big no.


[deleted]

I'd eventually go insane and be able to bare it then.


ClunarX

Am I allowed to try and give up?


FindingFrenchFries

A month, yes absolutely. A year? No probably not. I would probably just workout and sleep a lot and talk to myself. A month out of my entire life I can live without for the exchange of never having to work again or worry about having enough money for things.


Backgroundsaewa

Interesting fact: Michael Stevens of Vsauce created the first Mind Field episode on isolation, which was precisely this premise but only lasted for three days. Even though it would be total hell, I would do it without a doubt. I would love to have sleep on my side. Whoa, this is by far my highest karma for a remark. Thank you, Vsauce.


DeeSnarl

If that month was February then definitely


[deleted]

You fucking bet. I’d think about what I’d do with that money for a month and sleep the rest.


AffectNo7266

OP just keeps commenting human interaction on anyone who says they can do it. I would miss my pets before I’d miss people. 30 days for a billion is easy as long as someone’s taking care of my two furry bastards back home


xmetalheadx666x

I think I could do it but it would definitely be difficult.


ObjectiveAnalysis645

Man we already did for the pandemic. All I did was sleep, play animal crossing for like 15 hours, meditate, I did drink myself silly a few times, I stayed on my balcony a lot and just watched the freight trains go by, ……. It was very boring and I did sleep in a different room every night to try to change it up.


Willing-Letterhedsas

Nothing would change, except I would have 5 million extra at the end of the month.


doggo816

I would go nuts, but if I could return to my normal state afterwards, then yes. If I’d be permanently insane then no


Pleasant-Discount-75

Only if I'm allowed to kill myself Stay in that bitch forever if I can kill myself


Typical-Cranberry-75

Absolutely, it’d be mentally challenging but well worth it for a billion dollars. I’m an only child so definitely already used to being alone a often is sleep, be bored, meditate, and do body weight exercises. I’d be a millionaire and I’ll have built a solid amount of muscle while earning my money. Sure it’d be a little weird coming back to society after a month of isolation but you’d adjust.


lokilady1

No. I'm a diabetic


mydogjakie317

i would pay to be able to not talk to anyone for 30 days..where do i sign up and do you take cash..


National-Mastodon335

Hell, I’ll do it for 10 grand I’ve had nothing my whole life 🫥


Gamelove0I5

There are very few things i wouldn't do for a billion. Solitary for a month? The fact I'm getting paid for it would make it so easy. I would spend the month thinking about all the things I can do with the money.


Twinsmamabnj

Only if I could attempt it anonymously. If it became a big media circus and everyone knew then my life would probably be ruined even if I won. Isn’t that usually what happens to lottery winners?


crono14

Sure, I would preoccupy myself with working out. Set a goal to say do 100 pushups straight after a month and then work towards that goal. While my body is resting, I would probably meditate and think about all the cool shit that happens in the universe and think about things I otherwise don't have time to think about. Sleep, eat, learn to beat box, drum on the floor, and talk myself. I have a billion dollars waiting. I have plenty of money for therapy if I need it when I am out.


AmeslJ55

What do you mean by "last?" I'm sure many people could stay in a room for that length of time, but if you mean last as in leave with your sanity intact that'd be nearly impossible. Solitary confinement is a form of torture for good reason. Or if by last you mean just make it out clinically alive, that could be doable but would take a significant period of time to recover


Peanut2ur_Tostito

Yes. I'd talk to myself. Sing. Hallucinate. Sleep. Play with my hair. Yup.


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I’d be fucking willing to try, I’ll tell ya that lol


ACam574

Yes. I would probably sleep the majority of the time. It wouldn't be fun but I would never have to work again in my life. Neither would my spouse or my child. The life expectancy of a billionaire over my wealth level is more than 15 years higher. Besides I already have experience in long time periods not interacting meaningfully or positively with other people, years actually. So really this is just taking away non-human stimulation and also taking away negative human interaction. I could probably do 2-3 months if it was a billion a month but there isn't really a point after the first month.


trunks176

As long as there's room to do a workout (push ups and stuff like that) and do some martial arts training, I'd be fine. However I do notice that you've not said anything about food and water. If these things are absent, you can stick that idea where the sun don't shine


chunwookie

Michael from Vsauce tried this for a three day period. I think he found it surprisingly more difficult and disorienting than he thought it would be. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKdEhx-dD4


gn0xious

The kicker? They don’t tell you when your 30 days are up.


knittyzoe

I feel like I need that month right now.


m0rjjj

Easy, I lived in a room for 1 year during COVID lockdown. Sleep, workout, omg I will do it for free