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You discover you have a money tree, what is your next move?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) November 20th, 2010

You travel to an exotic land on vacation. An old man admires your camera, he says he don’t have anything of value but his special beans that if you planted them correctly it will more than make up for your camera. He somehow convinces you to take that deal. You get home and you plant them and a tree starts to grow. You figure it is a fruit tree common to the old man’s area. When the tree gets about 3.5 ft tall it starts to bloom, not a whole lot but a little. What is grows is not fruit but money. Mostly $1s, $5s, and $10s, with some occasional $20. Do you attempt to spend the money if you can’t detect any difference than the bills you have in your pocket or purse? Once you know they act and are accepted by all merchants and banks as if they were printed in a mint would you tell anyone other than your immediate family you had a money tree? Would you uproot it and try to grow it in a pot indoors, or would you be afraid you’d kill it? If after it got to about 5ft $100 dollar bills would sprout would that be a game changer? And if grew fast enough for you to harvest money from it twice a week would that have anything to do with how or where you’d attempt to grow it? And if you kept it outside (to get as big as it could) how would you hide the fact that money grew on it from neighbors or others you did not care to know? And would you be scared pissless that someone would find out and try to kill you for the tree?

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