You have a button that gives you $1,000 every hour, but each press ages you by 1 day. How many times do you press it ?
  • 33 points Heavy_Bicycle6524

    With the exact wording you’ve used, I’d only need to press it once for it to give $1000 an hour. Easiest decision of my life.

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    10 points Excellent-Seesaw1335

    Yup. $8.76 million a year for life. Pretty sure I could make that work.

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    2 points pot_the_assassin

    Fun face - With that earning rate, you would need ~54220 years to reach Elon Musk's current net worth

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    1 points Heavy_Bicycle6524

    I know right. I’d be pretty damn comfortable with that kind of income. Even if the taxman took half the money I’d still be living the good life and be setting my immediate family up for life

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    2 points Hamachiman

    But you’d lose a minute of life. A MINUTE!!!

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    1 points lsdbooms

    But if you are destined to die next week you might rethink that decision.

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    2 points Heavy_Bicycle6524

    If I’m destined to die in a week I won’t care 😜

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    1 points lsdbooms

    Word.

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    -1 points Spiritual-Tadpole342

    This reminds me of a kid saying to his sister, “technically I’m not touching you” as he puts his finger an inch from her nose.

    We all know what the question is. Lol.

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    2 points Heavy_Bicycle6524

    Yes we do. However it’s important that people understand that the way they write these hypotheticals can dramatically change the meaning, irrespective of the intention.

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  • 32 points Cobzi14

    So if I press it once I get $1K every hour of every day? So $24K

    I'd press it once

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    9 points Heavy_Bicycle6524

    Exactly

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    6 points tubadude123

    This but I’d probably do like 10 times. 10 fewer days, but I get almost a quarter million a day.

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    2 points Alone_Fly_5553

    Now what if in order to get the money you had to go to some building and stay there for like 8-10 hours out of about 3 of every 4 days of your life. And you had to do whatever tasks the people there tell you to do, so it ends up aging you more and the majority of your life is dedicated to this button? Oh and instead of $1,000 is like 20-40 bucks?

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    2 points Cobzi14

    Obviously the answer would be no, how did you come up with this?

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    3 points Alone_Fly_5553

    I mean, that just describes most jobs, right? Except the “choice” is between that and homelessness / starving because all the land is claimed, with a few people claiming the majority of everything

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    3 points Cobzi14

    I get your point. I guess the big thing is the choice as you say

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    2 points Alone_Fly_5553

    I was kinda being facetious because there is no choice, it’s be enslaved in a prison we build or die, but I don’t mean to be a downer. Continue with the happy upvotes!

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    1 points Kaellpae1

    I'd press it every minute for an hour.

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  • 9 points Fatherofthecentury13

    I wouldn't mind aging three or four years worth.

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    2 points Ambitious-Bottle9394

    U only need to press it once to receive the 1k an hr everyday lol

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  • 13 points Clavius78

    Would it also age me officially? I would just press it until I can retire then.

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    2 points RightPedalDown

    With $1000/hour you don’t need to wait til retirement age, you could retire same day.

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  • 6 points NicoBuilds

    First thought: money is not worth it

    Second thought: I spend 8 hours a day + commute, 5 days a week working. Technically you are "living" on your job. But are you?

    Hell of a question. Couldn't answer it right now. It's late and gotta sleep. Tomorrow have to work

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    3 points BoomerSoonerFUT

    Depends on how you read it. The way it’s written “one press gives you $1000 every hour” implies that’s it’s perpetual. So pressing the button once and aging yourself one day would work out to $24,000 a day forever, or $8.76M per year.

    No brainer.

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  • 3 points Howeed710Chaos

    3 years

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  • 2 points chrishelbert

    2,000 to get$ 2,000,000 for the bargain price of 5-1/2 years. I could live comfortably for the rest of my, now shorter, life.

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    1 points SpicierWinner

    You're maths are wrong - that would be 83 days.

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    2 points Embarrassed_Web_950

    It would take 83 days to get the money but you'd lose 5.5 years of your life.  

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    1 points diamondgreene

    Works for me. 🫩💀

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    1 points Ambitious-Bottle9394

    Or u could get hit by a bus in morning.. but u just need 1 push to get 1k an hr everyday. So ,basically once u push one time it would give u the money every hr . No need to keep pushing it .lol

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  • 2 points foldingpages

    None. I am not rich but I have enough.

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  • 1 points Enough_Play_427

    So the answer to this is press once a day for 2 years comfortable easy money while not adding to much to year life

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  • 1 points Original_Reading7423

    Till im dead

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    2 points Murky-Baby-3003

    This is the only answer.

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  • 1 points Pisces93

    365 times out of

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  • 1 points Just-Shoe2689

    Just once. I mean I get 1k every hour, so why press it more?

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  • 1 points LordNoWhere

    Zero

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  • 1 points Embarrassed_Web_950

    1000 times. A million will let me retire and I'll live much longer without the stress of working, so it's a net gain. 

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  • 1 points lakeside-user

    100 times.

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  • 1 points burnthreads

    Not having to work can un-age you so it’s a win.

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  • 1 points BreadfruitOk6160

    Once a day

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  • 1 points Happy-Assignment95

    I’d press it 365 times. I don’t mind losing a year to gain close to $9M. Lord knows I’m prob never making close to that in a year…ever.

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  • 1 points Even_Kaleidoscope399

    Honestly, maybe 5 times.

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  • 1 points tripmom2000

    Enough times to pay off my mortgage. Lol

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  • 1 points SubstantialSyrup5552
    1. That is how many hours + commute I work in 1 year. Thats $2.5 million. I could live on that for the rest of my life and be comfortable. And I'd be ahead on hours of my life because they wouldn't be spent living for a company I don't care about.
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  • 1 points 99Prettyboy99

    At least 300 times? The nonstop burnout already ages me faster than that

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  • 1 points Only-Cardiologist-74

    $24,000 / day. $168,000 / week. $720,000 / month. $8,760,000 / year. I could use a push-worth.

    At 71 years old. And Every year forward.

    I would probably give 3% to the ACLU, 3% to the Red Cross, and 3% to the Democratic Party. (2%=$175,200) (3%=$262,800)

    It would probably double every 7 years, in 30% in a mutual bond fund, 70% in an equity fund.

    Ed: up from 2% to 3%. Ed: Every year forward.

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  • 1 points findingsynchronisity

    If you only press it once a day you don't age faster than normal so , once a day

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  • 1 points justwannachat87

    Thinking about it, enough to lay off house and debt so then I can start to really save and invest for retirement would be nice. Or probably 1x day for 5yrs to get 1.8mil payoff debt and invest and retire early early. 

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  • 1 points Texas_Chili_Champion

    0

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  • 1 points tazzietiger66

    once because it gives me 1000 for every hour that I have left to live .

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  • 1 points Will_madickfit

    If I understand you correctly, pressing it once would age me a year, but then I get $1000 an hour for life, and if I press it again, then I age a year again and now start getting $2000 an hour for life. I think I can do away with a year.

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  • 1 points DoubleLibrarian393

    At least a hundred times

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  • 1 points cambiokeys

    INFO: Will it be taxed? Does the money appear in cash or is it automatically deposited into my account?

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  • 1 points Zalrius

    As needed.

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  • 1 points NeoZ33D

    Uno

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  • 1 points HaloLuna

    I pay my old MAGA aunt $20 an hour to press the button for me.

    It's a win/win.

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  • 1 points hawken54321

    100000 times

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  • 1 points Rogerdodger1946

    I'm old. I'm not touching that.

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  • 1 points diamondgreene

    Keep pressing it u til I can’t anymore.

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  • 1 points SECfangirl

    I would figure out how much of my time I would have to spend at work to make enough money to live for the rest of my life and I would push it until I had that much money. So I would lose the time I’m gonna have to be at work any way, and then spend the time I have left living my life with my family.

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  • 1 points Silly-Resist8306

    Does it work in reverse. Can I pay to get days back? I’ve got plenty of money and would like to get a few years back.

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  • 1 points Frosty-Weakness8725

    I guess only if I needed it and only take the amount I would need. A day is way better than taking a year off my life for one push.

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  • 1 points Actual-Screen6860

    I would abuse the hell outta that button . I already go on 1k benders every weekend that age me more than a day

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  • 1 points tkecanuck341

    Does it age me every day on paper too?

    If so, I press it repeatedly until I'm officially retirement age and can get SSA and Medicare, then live out the rest of my life with my newfound wealth without ever having to work again.

    I'd gladly skip to the end of this rat race.

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  • 1 points No-Freedom-At-All

    200 times.

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  • 1 points Fulghn

    Do I get to skip that day too? Is this a personal localized effect or a time travel device? Or is your body being used by alien overloads for some disturbing purpose for 24 hours while you're out?

    In my 20s I put $10K into an IRA. It's now worth about $200K and I still have a ways to go to retirement.

    So what happens if you press the button once and hold it down until you pass out from exhaustion? This question has a lot of plot holes.

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  • 1 points GlomBastic

    Keep pushing it until I die.

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  • 1 points RatonhnhaketonK

    Ten. Was going to say thirty, but eh. I have a kid lol

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  • 1 points UltimateDonny

    I’d press it once a quarter. 4 times a year

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  • 1 points SloppyJoeJoe11

    Not at all. Money isn't worth your health. Health and youth are priceless

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  • 1 points Inevitable_Export

    Sounds like getting f'd from all directions. Everyone's going to want a loan, the government is incrementally going to tax you more, you age for real but it apparently doesn't advance time with you, so you'd be stuck old and without social security if you pushed it enough. That button is going in a safe unpressed unless I end up with terminal illness... In that case it's going with me to get stem cell treatment in Costa Rica.

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  • 1 points Katy_Bar_the_Door

    Probably 100 or so over the first few weeks, and get out of debt, down payment on house, savings all set, then stop. I’d be 3-4 months older, but eh.

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  • 1 points Expensive-Ad-4884

    I read this as you can press it once an hour and get $1000

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  • 1 points Penis-Dance

    Zero. You didn't say that the button press is what gives you the money.

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  • 1 points Fierce_Focus_STI

    Twice. I already have a few things working against me so why not get paid to add something else to it.

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  • 1 points lsdbooms

    Depends. Am I dying at 40 or 120

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  • 1 points Toastedginger484

    Gimme a year

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  • 1 points FletchMeister96

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