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What wouldn't you do for a truckload of money?

Asked by Captain_Fantasy (11447points) April 23rd, 2010 from iPhone

Let’s say $1,000,000,000 US.
Where do you draw the line?
Would you steal computers from an orphanage?
Beat up a homeless guy?
Be Bill Gates’ ass slave for a year?
Irreversable self mutilation?

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wonderingwhy's avatar

kill myself.

Michael_Huntington's avatar

I wouldn’t go to a Justin Bieber concert

drClaw's avatar

@wonderingwhy I gotta say that I’m with you there. I would probably do just about anything short of killing myself and genocide (the later being on the edge of acceptable).

Siren's avatar

Good question!

I wouldn’t:

(1) Kill myself (like @wonderingwhy), or hurt myself
(2) Kill someone else, torture or maim someone else
(3) Lie, cheat or steal to get it (I believe in karma)
(4) Do anything embarrasing, humiliating or degrading to myself or others (ie reality tv)
(5) Go to war (same as 1 and 2 I guess)

Gee….looks like I’ll have to either inherit it or earn it (rats). I don’t gamble, so that’s out too.

aprilsimnel's avatar

I wouldn’t blow Larry King. No way, no how. Not for every single penny, pence, peso, franc, kroner or unlimited credit line on earth!

ucme's avatar

Criticise the wife’s cooking,lovemaking.Or say her arse looks big in that dress in front of friends while laughing & pointing.Gulp, a fate worth no amount of money.

Cruiser's avatar

Not much I wouldn’t do for a billion dollars and a truck…though murder would be one of them even though there are a few I would do for nothing if I could get away with it and given the chance.

gailcalled's avatar

The money doesn’t interest me, but a free truck. That’s a different story.

ucme's avatar

Oh you added more details.Bill Gates’ ass slave,i’d want that amount a month plus benefits.He must tell no one shhhh.

Captain_Fantasy's avatar

No dice. Bill Gates gets to publicly out you as his ass slave. That’s part of the billion dollars.

chyna's avatar

I wouldn’t do that.

Coloma's avatar

Thats waay too much money…shit, I couldn’t spend that in one lifetime.

Nope, nothing would I do of a riff raffy nature..besides, I already have a truckload of money ( well, the economy model, lol ) and I still live simply…have fun, but could care less about the big house, jewelry, cars…blah, blah, blah.

The best thing money can buy is the freedom to discover yourself.

rebbel's avatar

I wouldn’t forget to wear a balaklava and shades.

dpworkin's avatar

I wouldn’t bother. I’ve been wealthy and I’ve been impoverished, and I know for a fact that you can be content while poor and miserable while rich. You can keep the money.

BluRhino's avatar

As Windows users, we have been getting screwed by Bill Gates for years; whats one more? I cant imagine his little weenie causing me any more pain and suffering than his OS’s have. besides, I might be able to train my anus to clamp shut at will; my version of a BSOD!! lol

Blackberry's avatar

Two guys…..one cup…..line…drawn.

cockswain's avatar

Scheisse porn

njnyjobs's avatar

I would steal computers from the orphanage if it gets me the $1B . . .

thereafter I buy each orphan at that orphanage their very own state-of-the art laptops with mobile broadband connections, to start out.

Coloma's avatar

Okay…thats it!
Two guys, one cup…thanks dude for making my morning coffee cup an object of repulsion!

Blackberry's avatar

@Coloma It’s still morning where you are lol? I’m about to get off of work lol.

beautifulbobby193's avatar

Most people on here would do anything for $1bln. No matter what they say. I’d say most would have sex with animals AND commit multiple homicides for that kind of money if they were guaranteed to get away with it.

Coloma's avatar

@Blackberry

Yep, 10:16 am California leisure time.

Was supposed to work this weekend but an 11th hour reprieve.

The beauty of working around construction in progress. lol

Blackberry's avatar

@Coloma Very nice :) I wish I was back there (although in the Northwest).

Coloma's avatar

@Blackberry

I just peeked at your profile, love your name!

May I have permission to name my next pet in your honor? lolol

Blackberry's avatar

@Coloma Of course :) lol…..

CMaz's avatar

I would not go against my sense of ethics.

Or would I? Really could not tell you, until that truck of money showed up at my house.

As the saying goes, money talks, bullshit walks.

ucme's avatar

The notion of being anally intruded by that fucking dweeb has left my member a little micro-soft.On reflection I think i’ll pass.

dpworkin's avatar

@beautifulbobby193 I don’t think that’s true, and I think your priorities are a little fucked up if you really mean what you said. Study after study of major life-changing lottery winners have shown time after time that their happiness does not increase but their anxiety does.

Good companionship and love will get you through times of no money a hell of a lot better than money will get you through times of social isolation.

All anyone would accomplish by committing a crime or doing something humiliating for any amount of money is to increase his or her level of guilt.

chyna's avatar

@dpworkin Did you see the guy in the paper today from Missouri that just won the lottery? He is buying teeth with his winnings, as he should.~

dpworkin's avatar

If someone were to follow his career longitudinally I would be willing to bet that any increased satisfaction doesn’t derive from the mere fact of the money.

janbb's avatar

Since I have the luxury of having enough money to live on, there is very little that is against my principles that I would do for more. I definitely wouldn’t do anything that would cause me or anyone else pain. And I agree with the research that having a shitload of money doesn’t provide happiness.

Blackberry's avatar

Hmmmm, I don’t know @dpworkin…..I mean it sounds really nice what you are saying, but I think it only applies to people who have ‘enough’ money, ya know?

dpworkin's avatar

I have almost no money, and I have been very wealthy in the past (Wealthy enough to own a doorman apartment in Manhattan, and a country home with a pool and lots of land and beautiful views upstate, to fly 1st class, to stay in 5 Star hotels, to eat in New York’s finest restaurants, etc.)

Now I can’t afford to repair my car, I am one illness away from being homeless, I haven’t taken a vacation in four years, and I can’t afford to eat out in a diner.

I know exactly what I’m talking about. The only thing that would prove to you that I’m right would be your own experience, but I am telling the absolute truth.

Jeruba's avatar

I’d walk across the street for it. Not much else. Oh, I’d edit the autobiography of the guy who was giving it away.

@beautifulbobby193, I don’t think you should try to speak for “most people” until you understand them a little better. Not having the money would absolutely not make a person any worse off than he is now. The fact that it’s there does not mean that I have to want it or that I’m entitled to it or that I give a fig for it. If I had it, I would have to take care of it and protect it. I’d like not to have to worry about money, sure, but having a billion dollars does not mean freedom from worrying about money. It just means worry of a different kind.

Blackberry's avatar

@dpworkin Alrighty then…I stand corrected :)

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Gadzooks! I would not do a Gay act upon another male or let one do an act upon me for 50,000 containrer ships full of cash, let alone a measly billion, it would take 13 billion in therapy to make the nightmares go away.

beautifulbobby193's avatar

@dpworkin Last time I replied to you it was removed by a mod so probably best not to engage.

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