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Of all the ways to get 30 billion dollars, this would probably be the least emotionally disturbing choice.
Only ethical billionaire
Of course they’d be a fucking nutter once released
My wife lived a very similar life, but also in pain for multiple years. She had no entertainment because everything hurt. The lack of entertainment didn’t drive her insane. Even the pain didn’t drive her insane.
But then you came along?
No she died. I took care of her for years.
The joke felt funnier und more lighthearted in my head. Sorry for your loss.
No problem. Thanks for the apology. I appreciate it.
Inherit it from parents who… Ok, I see your point
One year in that room would make anyone go crazy enough to not enjoy the money when they get out
Id still do it in a heartbeat. I’ve got a year to lay there and plan out how to best distribute/use it. $30 billion would be more than enough to build a nice commune that can grow someplace with healthcare and everything else taken care of for all the people that live there. Just the interest would pay for everything if you could get 5% interest on it and never have to touch any of the principle. Could get 15,000 people going and pay them all 100,000 a year at first while we set everything up. There would be a lot of schematics to figure out, and finding a location would be tough, but there is absolutely no reason I couldn’t go to therapy or even get others to help manage the set up and walk into the sea after if I’ve really lost it. Could possibly help a lot of people and grow into something nice.
I think you’re underestimating how long a year is. Even a week in solitary is enough to cause permanent damage
I would be willing to suffer permanent damage to ensure everyone I have ever cared about has all the money they need to thrive.
I think this is one of those things where it seems totally fine to you but in reality it activates some kind of intrinsic biological limit that you aren’t even aware of. I FEEL like I would easily conquer the nothing box by just doing a lot of great thinking. But scientifically, I kind of doubt that I really could. It’s like if someone challenged me to eat only celery for a year. I might have the willpower to do it, but biologically I may just die. Now I don’t think the nothing box would kill me, but I can imagine it making people go crazy for sure.
solitary confinement is recognized as torture, and that’s probably for a good reason. I’ve also had personal experience in psychiatric hospitals with people who had to be confined, and while their being there is probably due to every available professional being entirely hopeless with them, the confinement definitely doesn’t help the situation. even the ex-director of the NIMH, thomas insel, finds in “healing: our path from mental illness to mental health” that a lot of mental healthcare is actually social and communal care, not cold hard medicine. where medicines fail, you can still treat a patient with kindness and patience, integrate them into their community, make friends, have good daily experiences. you can still give them a human touch. all that heals people to some extent, and solitary confinement is exactly the opposite of it.
You’re right, you’d go crazy, check out this vid of VSauce doing it for three days. https://youtu.be/iqKdEhx-dD4
I’ve seen VSauce’s video where Michael does this for like, what, three days? And he’s basically lost it by the end. So while this is tempting, no, I can’t do it.
I’d be willing to linearly downscale.
I am sure that for me 3 Million is more than i could ever reasonably spend for the rest of my life.
So with 8760 hours in a year, that would be like 53 Minutes. You know what, make it a full hour.
This comment exposes how wrong it actually is, that we allow individuals to become billionaires…
Here’s an easy way to kill time: try counting and see how close you can get to 30 billion
