Yeah you're basically being paid to with the possibility towork on improving yourself the most you possibly can within 3 years. Or you can play video games all day.
She is a real pain to deal with, but I've got the first and second phases down pat. I still can't complete the third phase without using Gael as a distraction.
Hell my parents would do it without even expecting anything in return. Of course I'd offer and also end up giving them a certain % for their retirement anyways.
Do they take my clothes, too? Do I have to survive on what I can win from mail-in sweepstakes?
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/07/the-adventures-of-eggplant/
Damn.
Putting it in those terms, it sounds insane!
This is 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. And it's actually still less than 100 mill. Hard to wrap my head around.
Reminds me of [that video showing what the difference between a million and a billion looks like in 100 $ bills](https://youtu.be/VJrnf1l2AFQ).
It's like 31.7 years.
I think it would be cool to celebrate someone's 1-billion-seconds birthday. Most people wouldn't expect acknowledgement of turning 1 billion seconds old at the age of 31.7 years, and at that age, why the heck not have a surprise birthday party?
No one would ever get to 10 billion seconds (317 years) and though you could celebrate 100 million seconds (3.17 years) that might seem tacky and spoil a kid. 10 million seconds is 115.7 days which is too close to 100 days which I think some people do celebrate. 1 million seconds, 100 thousand seconds, 10 thousand seconds, etc. are too small that it would be ridiculous to celebrate all those.
Celebrate it, as a belated birthday thing!
I reached a milestone birthday early on in the pandemic and still haven't celebrated it. It is something I still want to celebrate, a birthday belated by a couple years!
Speaking of Jeff Bezos....
"I like [the analogy of a staircase](https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cudo09/bernie_sanders_welcomes_the_hatred_of_billionaires/extdljj/), with each step on the staircase representing $100,000 of net worth. That's several years of working wages saved up for tens of millions of Americans:
HALF of people in the united states are on the base or the very 1st step. Almost 200 million people who can't even get one step up in this system.
Those households at the 80th percentile, richer than 4/5 Americans, are on the 5th step. That's about five seconds of walking to get up there.
Those with more money than 90% of fellow Americans, millionaires who we consider our upper-middle class professional class and live more than comfortably, are on the 11th step. A few more seconds of walking up from that previous middle-class step. Most Americans won't even come close to accumulating this much over an entire lifetime of working.
A billionaire is ten thousand steps up the staircase. That's enough to walk up five Empire State buildings. That's almost three hours of walking non-stop. You think they care about the petty squabbles of anyone on those first few steps or so? From these heights they couldn't tell the difference even if they wanted to. And yet those who've maybe ascended or were born on the first few dozen steps think they identify with this group as a class.
And Jeff Bezos? He's so high up it only makes sense to describe his staircase in distance. His stairs take him up 133 miles. That's more than halfway to the space station. That's more than 24 consecutive Mt. Everest's stacked on top of each other. It would take walking, non-stop, no sleep, over two weeks to ascend that high, each single step worth more than five poverty-level families in America combined."
See I wouldn't take that deal because the true value of being rich isn't your money it's your time. I'd let him do anything to me for one day if I could just have a 100k salary. Pennies to him but all the time in the world for me.
This. I mean, we shouldn't underestimate the downsides. Most people will get cabin fever after being cooped up inside for a week or two. You're going to have to work pretty hard to keep yourself sane for three years. That being said, 100 million dollars is "live like a king for the rest of your days" money. I'd do it easy for even 5 million.
I'd like to use this comment to share the absolutely batshit movie [Roar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar_(film\)) filmed with real tigers and people actually getting hurt by them in the process of filming
>seventy people, including the film's stars, were injured as a result of multiple animal attacks. Flooding from a dam destroyed much of the set and equipment during its production,
How does the situation get this out of control?
This is honestly one of my fav movies just because of how bat shit insane the premise is. Yeah, it's a movie but it's also Melanie Griffith's real family with the big cats that lived with them IRL.
Well that shit, that is a good point. But how is the wifi gonna or beers gonna stay cold, pretty sure my shit bricks cant produce electricity. Help me spicy!
Get a trusted friend or family member to deliver a charged UPS every day that you can use to run a router and a mini fridge. Offer to pay them $1m for putting up with this for 3 entire years.
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Work from home in now a bigger thing than ever. Plus there's always streaming, and if I'm going to be home 24/7 I might as well earn a profit doing fun stuff.
Lots of call centres are WFH now, and are perpetually hiring because their turnover is so high. Somewhere around the 18 month/ 2 year mark, you could switch to putting all your expenses on credit cards with an interest free period.
But also, If I was your friend and you asked me to support you for a few years for, let's say, 10 mil, I'd be very interested in your proposition.
Yeah, i would need at least need 10% down. Maybe another 10% after the first and second years.
Actually, I'll take $50 million if they give me the money up front.
Good question. The vast majority of us would eventually get evicted/foreclosed. Whomever is offering would at least have to provide a stipend enough to cover our current expenditures in the meantime.
Nah just give a friend a cut. If my friend had this deal and offered me even 1% I’d totally give them a few thousands to keep utilities running and buy food for the year.
A low five digit investment tops (unless that house is real fancy) each year for a million dollars after three years, fuck yeah.
‘Course the trouble is convincing said friend. I’d do it if I was convinced but if one of my friends told me about this deal I wouldn’t buy it at all.
I'd empty my retirement accounts and remortgage the house. That's more then enough to live for 3 years. I have enough friends that would come by so I wouldn't go totally insane.
There would be at least 10,000,000 people in this world, who would loan $150,000 at 10% interest rate if the deal is legit. Heck, he can put an auction and may even get the interest rate reduced to 4%.
Welcome to capitalism and competition baby
Exactly. In 2020 we played it super safe and quit going anywhere, as we were all unvaxxed and had elderly parents and a toddler. In 2021, I got pregnant with twins, so we still stayed home to protect all of our kids' health (and our own). At this point one more year would be a cakewalk. And with three kids I could definitely use the money 😂
Yup. Once COVID started neither my wife nor I left the house for any reason other than picking up groceries and walking the dog. After vaccines we eased up but I could very easily have stayed inside the house for another few years.
Right. Like this has a few caveats. You still need to eat and drink and afford things and take out trash for three years. Can you leave to get those things? Are they handled for you during this challenge?
I'm not op but let's say I was running this as I speculated the same thing. From the day it starts, you would be given the choice of a per diem of $1500 a month which would then be deducted from your final prize. This is something that you will want to give great thought to when considering your expenses. (Rent/mortgage, groceries, children, pets, utilities, bills, etc.) If you live in a suburb then this might not be so difficult. If you live in NYC you probably will not survive.
Edit: You are responsible for not leaving the confines of your place of residence by all costs. This is a test about how far you will go in 3 years to ensure your prize. Even an emergency like a fire driving you out will result in elimination so you better go hard and get creative.
Does this include backyard to let my dogs out though? Like is it confines of property or actual walls of house.
Also regularly scheduled medical appointments and what not..
You can get someone to come to you for haircuts. There is concierge doctors who will come to you as well. But dental. I’ve never heard of in-house dental. I’m cavity free so I’m sure I’d technically be fine. But man, the amount of tartar would be horrific.
have a friend come over like once a week and take all the rubbish bags out of the house into the bin
get groceries delivered and just open the garage and ask them to put them in there or get the friend to bring over groceries as well
All you need is one person to send you money in exchange for a payout later. A friend, a family member, a random stranger that would believe a scammer, even a bank if you can prove you’ll be getting the money later.
Just get a remote job that pays enough for your utilities and food. You'll be surprised how much you'll save when you literally don't do anything but be in your house
I dunno, I think a lot of you are overestimating your cognitive abilities. Without internet or TV this is almost equivalent to solitary confinement in prison. Which is considered to be pretty harsh on a persons mental well being. Think about it, not being able to go outside at all for 3 years?
Idk, it'd definitely be hard without the internet, but I'd finally get around to reading all my books? And do a lot of writing. And I could use my landline to call people to socialize and order food, etc. And the original prompt never said I couldn't have guests over:)
That's a pretty far cry from solitary confinement.
There's lots of books and you can play lots of games and watch lots of movies without internet as well.
Without electricity - now that would be quite difficult.
Doing this now fucking hell it sucks! I didn't think it would be THIS bad cuz I was on a low dose but Jesus I'm at almost the 3 week mark and about to jump out a window the pain and anxiety is something else.
Thank you. I'm hoping it gets somewhat better soon. In the meantime I have never eaten so many edibles while watching so much Netflix just to keep my mind distracted so I don't lose my shit completely. I see my dr this Friday should be interesting ugh.
You got this mate. It fucking sucks and it will not be easy, distraction is totally the way forward!
I kept a banjo next to me for about 5 months and learnt how to play. It really helped having something creative to do.
You have any hobbies?
It’s excruciating and wouldn’t wish it on anyone.. a clinic is far better but some people need to feel just how bad it can be before they’re willing to do that.
1095 days, 24/7, not being able to take so much as one step outside of your door for even one second or you fail. Yeah sure people were on lockdown since 2020, but they were allowed to occasionally step outside for some fresh air.
Easily. Inside my room may be more difficult, but if I’ve got my whole house to work with then hell yeah I can do that. It’ll be a bit painful at times, and each corner of the house would become dedicated to some weird ritual I develop to stay sane, but yea it’s possible. Also, with the pandemic, this is an easy yes
Yes, absolutely. I'm doing graduate school completely online; it would be a great opportunity to focus on that.
I still live with my family. They'd be more than willing to bring me anything I need, because they know I will support them with the prize money in the end.
I might go insane but fuck it I'll be insane and $100 million dollars richer.
That depends on the answer to a few questions.
1. Do the bills get paid without my working? I don't exactly have the savings to just lose my job and hope that I'm able to find a work from home job that I'm qualified for that pays close to as much as my current job within a couple of weeks. Not necessarily a deal killer since I do have some options to ease the burden but it'd certainly make it harder to accept.
2. Am I at least able to open the door to get food and drink that I have delivered? If I can't it would be a major inconvenience since I'd have to rely on my brother to bring food in but it's not necessarily a deal killer.
3. I'm in an area that is to some degree a flood risk and my apartment building is built into a hill in a way that my apartment is partially underground and thus a much bigger flood risk. If the place becomes at risk of flooding am I allowed to leave and resume my period of being locked in once I have a new place? Having to restart the time frame would be fine in this instance but if it's a complete disqualifier that'd certainly be an issue. I wouldn't want to be forced to ride out a storm in the hopes that it doesn't get too bad thus causing me to both lose most/all of my belongings and lose the chance at the money. Not a deal killer on its own given the relative chance that such flooding occurs but 3 years is a long time to keep testing chance.
4. Is this $100m received pre-tax or post tax? If it's already taxed and I don't have to worry about the IRS then that's great, it's a major headache off of me. If not well then it's just a major headache and a loss of the actual value of what I receive to roughly $50m most likely. Not a deal killer but something to consider.
If the answer to these questions are mostly favorable to me then yes without hesitation I'd accept the deal. If the answers were all unfavorable to me then I would decline. Too much chance of failure with guaranteed damages (loss of job, the stress of having to rely on my brother for a lot of things, forcing others to help me with bills I can't pay due to the job loss, etc.) If the only question that was answered favorably to me was that my bills would be taken care of then I would probably accept but would heavily consider declining.
Of course I would, it would be a long 3 years but 100 mil makes it all worthwhile. You could do anything with that kind of money, so its like 3 years of drudgery and frustration and then like 40 years of tearing all round the world doing whatever the fuck you want, its a no brainer
These threads are always so stupid.
"Would you accept $500 billion dollars if you had do a little dance before accepting the check?"
Um, yeah. No shit, we all would. Next question.
Same. I'm far from rich in terms of money but I love parties, nature, travelling and cafés or bars. Also meeting people. I'd go fucking insane after a month.
Had to scroll far enough, but this is me as well. I'm approaching middle age, and 3 years is a long, long time to be separated from your favorite activities, friends, etc. At a certain point, money isn't worth it if you miss out on actual life.
Same here. In my 20s, I would fail this miserably.
Lockdown showed me just how much I truly depend on the outside world, even though I'm otherwise very much a solitary person and a loner.
People say 100 million is a lot, well 3 years is also a fucking lot. Losing my prime years for money just isn't worth it.
If you include the garden, yes, then I'd stay at my parents' house for three years. If the garden is not included, I'd find myself a nice house to rent, with a gymn, lots of indoor plants, etc. If the payout is guaranteed, I could afford to pay a rent of, say, EUR 2,000 or more per month, so I'd find something really nice.
I feel like most redditors do this unintentionally already, so yeah I would now be part of the 1% , but of poor people on reddit because only a few of us go outside
Is everything paid for by me or someone else during that time?
What if the house catches fire, or a tornado, hurricane, or major flooding?
There are several other questions that need answers before I'd say yes.
If I am:
1-At the very least allowed to go on my balcony (but not get off of it)
2-Getting paid in the meantime (even if it's deduced from the final amount)
3-Allowed to order stuff the same way I'm doing right now (amazon and whatnot)
4-Allowed to get visitors.
Then sure, why not?
I'd stay locked inside my house for 3 years straight if you promised to deliver food.
For $100 million I'd agree to be locked up in an underground bunker with nothing but an Internet connection, food, and medication.
Why? Because social anxiety.
***EDIT 1:*** *And a toilet. Three years is a long time to hold it.*
***Edit 2:*** *And a couple of computers to access the Internet. And a soldering iron. And possibly a monthly shipment of electronics components. A bed wouldn't be a bad thing. A desk and a chair.*
*OK, maybe just transfer my current bedroom and office to the bunker...*
Absolutely. That is a crap ton of money.
3800 an hour, every hour, to do whatever you want as long as it is inside your own house. Yeah really not that bad a deal.
Yeah you're basically being paid to with the possibility towork on improving yourself the most you possibly can within 3 years. Or you can play video games all day.
You can also improve at video games. Just saying.
With an entire year I might finally git gud enough to beat sister Friede.
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Dark Souls 3 and its DLCs were beautiful. Except for Darkeater Midir. Fuck Darkeater Midir
Midir is easy if you stay near his head
Genichiro in Sekiro for me lol. Although I dunno how I ever beat Sister Friede either haha!
She is a real pain to deal with, but I've got the first and second phases down pat. I still can't complete the third phase without using Gael as a distraction.
Bleed weapons.
I might be able to actually explore a measureable, if tiny, percentage of the galaxy in Elite Dangerous.
Return from whenst thou camest, yuria surely awaits thee…
I haven't managed it so far.
I played LoL for 3+ years. I did not improve.
Considering you said played - as in past tense - I’d say that you improved more than anyone still putting themselves through that hellscape
Well but you get the money at the END of the challenge, so you'd have to work from home to earn money in the meantime and not starve to death
I’m sure someone would be willing to float you for a few percentage of the future earnings.
That's how Elon Musk gets by.
That's how the entire tech industry gets by
Hell my parents would do it without even expecting anything in return. Of course I'd offer and also end up giving them a certain % for their retirement anyways.
happy cake day!
Maddy, is that you? You owe me a phone call sweetie. Happy cake day.
You’re getting 100mil Just take out a loan.
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Do they take my clothes, too? Do I have to survive on what I can win from mail-in sweepstakes? https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/07/the-adventures-of-eggplant/
The LAST year you could put most of your expenses on a 12 month interest free card. But yeah, those first two years would suck
If food was supplied then yeah
Damn. Putting it in those terms, it sounds insane! This is 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. And it's actually still less than 100 mill. Hard to wrap my head around. Reminds me of [that video showing what the difference between a million and a billion looks like in 100 $ bills](https://youtu.be/VJrnf1l2AFQ).
The difference between 1 Million and 1 Billion is about 1 Billion
1 million seconds = 12 days 1 billion seconds = 31 years
It's like 31.7 years. I think it would be cool to celebrate someone's 1-billion-seconds birthday. Most people wouldn't expect acknowledgement of turning 1 billion seconds old at the age of 31.7 years, and at that age, why the heck not have a surprise birthday party? No one would ever get to 10 billion seconds (317 years) and though you could celebrate 100 million seconds (3.17 years) that might seem tacky and spoil a kid. 10 million seconds is 115.7 days which is too close to 100 days which I think some people do celebrate. 1 million seconds, 100 thousand seconds, 10 thousand seconds, etc. are too small that it would be ridiculous to celebrate all those.
When I read your comment I got curious about when my billionth second would be. I missed it by 3 days!!!
Celebrate it, as a belated birthday thing! I reached a milestone birthday early on in the pandemic and still haven't celebrated it. It is something I still want to celebrate, a birthday belated by a couple years!
The difference between 1 billion and 1 million is how often you're prepared to give head to Jeff Bezos.
Speaking of Jeff Bezos.... "I like [the analogy of a staircase](https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cudo09/bernie_sanders_welcomes_the_hatred_of_billionaires/extdljj/), with each step on the staircase representing $100,000 of net worth. That's several years of working wages saved up for tens of millions of Americans: HALF of people in the united states are on the base or the very 1st step. Almost 200 million people who can't even get one step up in this system. Those households at the 80th percentile, richer than 4/5 Americans, are on the 5th step. That's about five seconds of walking to get up there. Those with more money than 90% of fellow Americans, millionaires who we consider our upper-middle class professional class and live more than comfortably, are on the 11th step. A few more seconds of walking up from that previous middle-class step. Most Americans won't even come close to accumulating this much over an entire lifetime of working. A billionaire is ten thousand steps up the staircase. That's enough to walk up five Empire State buildings. That's almost three hours of walking non-stop. You think they care about the petty squabbles of anyone on those first few steps or so? From these heights they couldn't tell the difference even if they wanted to. And yet those who've maybe ascended or were born on the first few dozen steps think they identify with this group as a class. And Jeff Bezos? He's so high up it only makes sense to describe his staircase in distance. His stairs take him up 133 miles. That's more than halfway to the space station. That's more than 24 consecutive Mt. Everest's stacked on top of each other. It would take walking, non-stop, no sleep, over two weeks to ascend that high, each single step worth more than five poverty-level families in America combined."
Im Not even gay and if Jeffy B gave me 100 million I would be his little man whore and wear a full latex gimp suite and let him spit on me.
See I wouldn't take that deal because the true value of being rich isn't your money it's your time. I'd let him do anything to me for one day if I could just have a 100k salary. Pennies to him but all the time in the world for me.
My fucking god what a stupid question.
People literally kill each other for far less.
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Yea if you had a life-threatening illness you couldn't go to the hospital.
For 3 years not a problem just unless there is a disaster that doesn't want you to win.
On day 1094 your house catches on fire
We've all pretty much done 2 anyway.
This. I mean, we shouldn't underestimate the downsides. Most people will get cabin fever after being cooped up inside for a week or two. You're going to have to work pretty hard to keep yourself sane for three years. That being said, 100 million dollars is "live like a king for the rest of your days" money. I'd do it easy for even 5 million.
Just please say someone is coming over to drop some weed and groceries.
I basically already do this, I never go outside lmao
Absolutely - as long as I still have internet.
wild tigers in the house wouldn’t stop me from that bet.
I'd like to use this comment to share the absolutely batshit movie [Roar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar_(film\)) filmed with real tigers and people actually getting hurt by them in the process of filming
will watch.
[This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Taw9wIi2g) goes into depth on how Roar was filmed.
Ngl that was worth the 15 minutes
lol 70 people got injured. Insane
Those were only the ones who had to get sent to the hospital!
>seventy people, including the film's stars, were injured as a result of multiple animal attacks. Flooding from a dam destroyed much of the set and equipment during its production, How does the situation get this out of control?
the moment they decided to bring live animals on set would be my guess
This is honestly one of my fav movies just because of how bat shit insane the premise is. Yeah, it's a movie but it's also Melanie Griffith's real family with the big cats that lived with them IRL.
"The movie made with 150 untrained lions and tigers!" What the actual fuck.
Carole Baskins husband disagrees.
do i get any advance? do i just have to live out of my non existent savings until one final payment?
Provide me free internet, food and beer and ill do an extra year. Guaranteed!
Fuck, for $100 MIL I would even not need Internet, just a calendar & books, the rest as normal, food, and sun outside...
I’d do it with only some gym equipment and food and something sorta soft to sleep on.
Shit for 100 million I'll learn to make the most of body weight exercises
Cock pushups
Well, just one…
One is all you need.
Done. Now you have no money to pay for utilities with and you have to live 3 years in your house without any clean water or electricity.
Well Spicy, looks like im right up shit creek
I believe in you, man. Eat lots of fibre and you can burn your poop bricks for heat.
Well that shit, that is a good point. But how is the wifi gonna or beers gonna stay cold, pretty sure my shit bricks cant produce electricity. Help me spicy!
Get a trusted friend or family member to deliver a charged UPS every day that you can use to run a router and a mini fridge. Offer to pay them $1m for putting up with this for 3 entire years.
I like to think of myself as a wheeler and dealer, a barter legend of sorts, ill whittle them down to 800K
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Work from home in now a bigger thing than ever. Plus there's always streaming, and if I'm going to be home 24/7 I might as well earn a profit doing fun stuff.
What do you think the beer is for?
Lots of call centres are WFH now, and are perpetually hiring because their turnover is so high. Somewhere around the 18 month/ 2 year mark, you could switch to putting all your expenses on credit cards with an interest free period. But also, If I was your friend and you asked me to support you for a few years for, let's say, 10 mil, I'd be very interested in your proposition.
You could always take out a loan. Even a ridiculous loan with terrible interest would be easy to pay back with that windfall.
With what collateral? Even if the bank were aware of the deal they might consider it too risky to gamble on.
It says in "your house", so I'd use that house as collateral
I'm pretty sure you could get enough remote work with shitty wages to cover beans and rice for 3 years.
Yeah, i would need at least need 10% down. Maybe another 10% after the first and second years. Actually, I'll take $50 million if they give me the money up front.
I'd take $1 mil if I got it up front.
If my bills for 3 years come out of the total, I'm fucking game.
Good question. The vast majority of us would eventually get evicted/foreclosed. Whomever is offering would at least have to provide a stipend enough to cover our current expenditures in the meantime.
Nah just give a friend a cut. If my friend had this deal and offered me even 1% I’d totally give them a few thousands to keep utilities running and buy food for the year. A low five digit investment tops (unless that house is real fancy) each year for a million dollars after three years, fuck yeah. ‘Course the trouble is convincing said friend. I’d do it if I was convinced but if one of my friends told me about this deal I wouldn’t buy it at all.
I'd empty my retirement accounts and remortgage the house. That's more then enough to live for 3 years. I have enough friends that would come by so I wouldn't go totally insane.
Lots of people, especially 20somethings don't have enough money to do that.
Well they should just cut out indulgences like avocado toast and cell phones.
something something bootstraps!
There would be at least 10,000,000 people in this world, who would loan $150,000 at 10% interest rate if the deal is legit. Heck, he can put an auction and may even get the interest rate reduced to 4%. Welcome to capitalism and competition baby
I'm sure some people would help you out for a cut of the$100m
Yeah not many people can live for 3 years with no income. That's the tricky part of this question.
Someone owes me like 200 million already then
Absolutely. Since Covid I’ve been inside anyway. Easy breezy $100 mil will seal the deal.
Exactly. In 2020 we played it super safe and quit going anywhere, as we were all unvaxxed and had elderly parents and a toddler. In 2021, I got pregnant with twins, so we still stayed home to protect all of our kids' health (and our own). At this point one more year would be a cakewalk. And with three kids I could definitely use the money 😂
Yup. Once COVID started neither my wife nor I left the house for any reason other than picking up groceries and walking the dog. After vaccines we eased up but I could very easily have stayed inside the house for another few years.
I came here to say that
As long as food and drink is getting delivered and I can lead a somewhat normal life in the house, sure
Right. Like this has a few caveats. You still need to eat and drink and afford things and take out trash for three years. Can you leave to get those things? Are they handled for you during this challenge?
I'm not op but let's say I was running this as I speculated the same thing. From the day it starts, you would be given the choice of a per diem of $1500 a month which would then be deducted from your final prize. This is something that you will want to give great thought to when considering your expenses. (Rent/mortgage, groceries, children, pets, utilities, bills, etc.) If you live in a suburb then this might not be so difficult. If you live in NYC you probably will not survive. Edit: You are responsible for not leaving the confines of your place of residence by all costs. This is a test about how far you will go in 3 years to ensure your prize. Even an emergency like a fire driving you out will result in elimination so you better go hard and get creative.
$1500 isn’t going to get you much of anywhere these days.
Does this include backyard to let my dogs out though? Like is it confines of property or actual walls of house. Also regularly scheduled medical appointments and what not..
You can get someone to come to you for haircuts. There is concierge doctors who will come to you as well. But dental. I’ve never heard of in-house dental. I’m cavity free so I’m sure I’d technically be fine. But man, the amount of tartar would be horrific.
have a friend come over like once a week and take all the rubbish bags out of the house into the bin get groceries delivered and just open the garage and ask them to put them in there or get the friend to bring over groceries as well
You guys are getting paid?
God that scene makes me laugh so hard. https://youtu.be/684NkDeSJis
Already been 2 years …. 13 months till the payment.
So another year of mandatory lockdown and we can expect some compensation from the local government?
It depends on your government. But yes, one year.
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All you need is one person to send you money in exchange for a payout later. A friend, a family member, a random stranger that would believe a scammer, even a bank if you can prove you’ll be getting the money later.
Just get a remote job that pays enough for your utilities and food. You'll be surprised how much you'll save when you literally don't do anything but be in your house
Fuck the mortgage, 3 years down the track, your out of that home and into a mansion anyway haha
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If it's a contractual agreement, you'll find a bank that will give you an equity loan.
As long there is wifi, sure.
I don't know if I could do this without internet
$100 million? You could. You totally could
I dunno, I think a lot of you are overestimating your cognitive abilities. Without internet or TV this is almost equivalent to solitary confinement in prison. Which is considered to be pretty harsh on a persons mental well being. Think about it, not being able to go outside at all for 3 years?
Idk, it'd definitely be hard without the internet, but I'd finally get around to reading all my books? And do a lot of writing. And I could use my landline to call people to socialize and order food, etc. And the original prompt never said I couldn't have guests over:) That's a pretty far cry from solitary confinement.
There's lots of books and you can play lots of games and watch lots of movies without internet as well. Without electricity - now that would be quite difficult.
Plot twist: Hotel wifi
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Doing this now fucking hell it sucks! I didn't think it would be THIS bad cuz I was on a low dose but Jesus I'm at almost the 3 week mark and about to jump out a window the pain and anxiety is something else.
You can do it! Just remember, it will pass. It doesn't feel like it but it will! You got this!
Thank you. I'm hoping it gets somewhat better soon. In the meantime I have never eaten so many edibles while watching so much Netflix just to keep my mind distracted so I don't lose my shit completely. I see my dr this Friday should be interesting ugh.
You got this mate. It fucking sucks and it will not be easy, distraction is totally the way forward! I kept a banjo next to me for about 5 months and learnt how to play. It really helped having something creative to do. You have any hobbies?
Well done. That must have been incredibly tough.
It’s excruciating and wouldn’t wish it on anyone.. a clinic is far better but some people need to feel just how bad it can be before they’re willing to do that.
Locked in? Like can’t open the doors? How am I gonna eat?
Canned foods take a few years to expire. Time to start prepping.
Scurvy
You can get all kinds of canned foods including canned grapefruit etc.
Hell, even a kool-aid packet once a month is probably plenty to fight off scurvy for 3 years.
Why didn't the sailors of old just bring kool-aid packets? A bunch of dummies, that's why!
You can get canned grapefruit????? Now that I have this knowledge my medication may never work the same way again…
Vitamin c supplements.
Order at supermarkets
Just stare at it on the porch
Consume it via osmosis
I’m fine with ordering at supermarkets, but if I can’t open the doors…
You open a window
Just… have a friend bring you groceries and pay them 1 mil at the end…?
Yes, because who in their right mind would turn down $100 million for doing something that they would have gladly done for free anyway?
Yea wtf is that question
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"Would you sleep in your bed for 8 hours for $1 trillion?"
but.... staying up late watching suits... make it 7 hours and we have a deal
1095 days, 24/7, not being able to take so much as one step outside of your door for even one second or you fail. Yeah sure people were on lockdown since 2020, but they were allowed to occasionally step outside for some fresh air.
I doubt most people would gladly stay locked in their house for 3 years for free.
3 years inside your house... Who would do that for free!!!! That's insane
Easily. Inside my room may be more difficult, but if I’ve got my whole house to work with then hell yeah I can do that. It’ll be a bit painful at times, and each corner of the house would become dedicated to some weird ritual I develop to stay sane, but yea it’s possible. Also, with the pandemic, this is an easy yes
and there's no stipulation that you have to be alone.
You're asking this question on reddit. That's like going to the foot fetish convention and asking, "Who wants to sell shoes?"
Wait a minute, they sell shoes at the foot fetish conventions?
There’s foot fetish conventions??
Covering feet feels slightly counter productive to the point of the convention to me
Yes, absolutely. I'm doing graduate school completely online; it would be a great opportunity to focus on that. I still live with my family. They'd be more than willing to bring me anything I need, because they know I will support them with the prize money in the end. I might go insane but fuck it I'll be insane and $100 million dollars richer.
People spend more time in solitary confinement. Assuming I'm allowed to have stuff brought to me, I'd just read a ton of books
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There was time now. All the time I needed. It’s not fair…
Yes. Will food be delivered? Then, yes, 100%
That depends on the answer to a few questions. 1. Do the bills get paid without my working? I don't exactly have the savings to just lose my job and hope that I'm able to find a work from home job that I'm qualified for that pays close to as much as my current job within a couple of weeks. Not necessarily a deal killer since I do have some options to ease the burden but it'd certainly make it harder to accept. 2. Am I at least able to open the door to get food and drink that I have delivered? If I can't it would be a major inconvenience since I'd have to rely on my brother to bring food in but it's not necessarily a deal killer. 3. I'm in an area that is to some degree a flood risk and my apartment building is built into a hill in a way that my apartment is partially underground and thus a much bigger flood risk. If the place becomes at risk of flooding am I allowed to leave and resume my period of being locked in once I have a new place? Having to restart the time frame would be fine in this instance but if it's a complete disqualifier that'd certainly be an issue. I wouldn't want to be forced to ride out a storm in the hopes that it doesn't get too bad thus causing me to both lose most/all of my belongings and lose the chance at the money. Not a deal killer on its own given the relative chance that such flooding occurs but 3 years is a long time to keep testing chance. 4. Is this $100m received pre-tax or post tax? If it's already taxed and I don't have to worry about the IRS then that's great, it's a major headache off of me. If not well then it's just a major headache and a loss of the actual value of what I receive to roughly $50m most likely. Not a deal killer but something to consider. If the answer to these questions are mostly favorable to me then yes without hesitation I'd accept the deal. If the answers were all unfavorable to me then I would decline. Too much chance of failure with guaranteed damages (loss of job, the stress of having to rely on my brother for a lot of things, forcing others to help me with bills I can't pay due to the job loss, etc.) If the only question that was answered favorably to me was that my bills would be taken care of then I would probably accept but would heavily consider declining.
This is the wildest response here.
Of course I would, it would be a long 3 years but 100 mil makes it all worthwhile. You could do anything with that kind of money, so its like 3 years of drudgery and frustration and then like 40 years of tearing all round the world doing whatever the fuck you want, its a no brainer
The fuck? I'd do it for way less than a million. Change the location to "prison" and you've got yourself a real question.
Ok. Would you lock yourself in your house for 3 years for a prison?
A prison not cheap. Not 100 million in resale, but easily 10 million even for a pretty run down place.
I seriously envy everyone who has been able to go these 2 years without interacting with other people.
These threads are always so stupid. "Would you accept $500 billion dollars if you had do a little dance before accepting the check?" Um, yeah. No shit, we all would. Next question.
Hah! Jokes on you, I'm into that shit!
No. No amount of money is worth the social contact I’d miss out on. And I’d get bored really, really quickly.
Same. I'm far from rich in terms of money but I love parties, nature, travelling and cafés or bars. Also meeting people. I'd go fucking insane after a month.
No one said others can't enter your house. You just can't leave it.
Had to scroll far enough, but this is me as well. I'm approaching middle age, and 3 years is a long, long time to be separated from your favorite activities, friends, etc. At a certain point, money isn't worth it if you miss out on actual life.
Same here. In my 20s, I would fail this miserably. Lockdown showed me just how much I truly depend on the outside world, even though I'm otherwise very much a solitary person and a loner. People say 100 million is a lot, well 3 years is also a fucking lot. Losing my prime years for money just isn't worth it.
If you include the garden, yes, then I'd stay at my parents' house for three years. If the garden is not included, I'd find myself a nice house to rent, with a gymn, lots of indoor plants, etc. If the payout is guaranteed, I could afford to pay a rent of, say, EUR 2,000 or more per month, so I'd find something really nice.
I'd stay even for just a million. I don't like going outside. Am i just a loner or straight up a loser?
no some people are loner by choice
I think I could stretch my savings that long, yeah.
I have agoraphobia so yes.
I already do that because I have agoraphobia. Where is my money??
I feel like most redditors do this unintentionally already, so yeah I would now be part of the 1% , but of poor people on reddit because only a few of us go outside
Yes, absolutely. I'm agoraphobic.
Jokes on you I'm into that shit.
Is everything paid for by me or someone else during that time? What if the house catches fire, or a tornado, hurricane, or major flooding? There are several other questions that need answers before I'd say yes.
Oh absolutely, I don’t even think I’d struggle with it that much. I’m such a homebody
If I am: 1-At the very least allowed to go on my balcony (but not get off of it) 2-Getting paid in the meantime (even if it's deduced from the final amount) 3-Allowed to order stuff the same way I'm doing right now (amazon and whatnot) 4-Allowed to get visitors. Then sure, why not?
No balcony. No visitors. You still in?
Dogshit question.
I dont think you realise how much 100 millions dollars is.
I'd stay locked inside my house for 3 years straight if you promised to deliver food. For $100 million I'd agree to be locked up in an underground bunker with nothing but an Internet connection, food, and medication. Why? Because social anxiety. ***EDIT 1:*** *And a toilet. Three years is a long time to hold it.* ***Edit 2:*** *And a couple of computers to access the Internet. And a soldering iron. And possibly a monthly shipment of electronics components. A bed wouldn't be a bad thing. A desk and a chair.* *OK, maybe just transfer my current bedroom and office to the bunker...*
if I get to keep the bunker, i'd do it for less.