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[–] Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 227 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

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.

[–] HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 161 points 3 weeks ago

This comment exposes how wrong it actually is, that we allow individuals to become billionaires..

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 56 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Came here to say that. 30 billion is a stupid amount of money. If down scaling is an option, anyone who considers doing it for a year (for personally owning all the money) is mentally ill.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 15 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Why?

Shouldn't everyone feel morally responsible for receiving the maximum reward so that they can personally distribute those funds amongst as many people as possible? The other guy is fine with just 3m, so one year of your life apparently could provide 9999 other people with a life of never having to work again.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

That is why I said (for personally owning all the money). If someone is selfless enough to spend one year in an insane room so they can give away the money to others, kudos to that person.

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[–] swemg@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago
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[–] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 148 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Of all the ways to get 30 billion dollars, this would probably be the least emotionally disturbing choice.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 97 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Only ethical billionaire

Of course they'd be a fucking nutter once released

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 26 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 61 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 18 points 3 weeks ago

You're right, you'd go crazy, check out this vid of VSauce doing it for three days. https://youtu.be/iqKdEhx-dD4

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 61 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

One year in that room would make anyone go crazy enough to not enjoy the money when they get out

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 56 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I think you're underestimating how long a year is. Even a week in solitary is enough to cause permanent damage

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

It takes me 3 days alone before my sanity begins slipping. I can’t imagine a year. After a day of deconstructing the cell and making fluff puppets, I’d already be bored. The brain craves stimulation.

[–] guy@piefed.social 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Everyone knows introverts just sit at home and stare at the wall all day

[–] guy@piefed.social 14 points 3 weeks ago

Sometimes the floor

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Extroversion and introversion have nothing to do with this. The lack of brain stimulation would probably end up killing you before the year ended

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[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 50 points 3 weeks ago

If the year in solitary confinement doesn't turn you into a psychopath the $30 billion will!

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Here's an easy way to kill time: try counting and see how close you can get to 30 billion

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A billion seconds is approximately 30 years, so probably not very close

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

1 year and your insane

Or

Waste your whole life working towards 0.001% of that.

If I can write a will beforehand for who gets it then it’s worth it.

[–] treesapx@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I know we have a decent amount of science pointing to this breaking the mind, but I can't help but wonder if anything would change knowing an unimaginably great prize was waiting on the other side. How long would it take to count to 30 billion...

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Don't forget drawing on the walls with your shit

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 30 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How about I do just a few hours for a pro-rated payout?

[–] Kevlar21@piefed.social 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, how bout one day for $82 million

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

ITT: people forgetting that prisoners in the US are isolated like this, and it's literal torture.

You're not special.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago

It's wild to me too because to do that to a patient I have to document every fifteen minutes how it would be an immediate risk to themselves or other people if I let them out and whether or not they've sustained any injury or are having any other medical complications. Every two hours I have to offer food, fluids, and the opportunity to use the bathroom. Every four hours I have to get a new order from a doctor and after twelve hours we have to notify the state. And I have to meticulously document ALL of this. The fact that unlicensed non medical personal can just... do it. No MD assessment. No monitoring of their hemodynamic stability. As long as they feel like. That's fucking WILD.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

i mean, a year is absurd, and that amount of money is meaningless.

how about i just stay in for a day and get 82million instead

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

I like that Lemmy's first thought is pro-rated payments, and yes, it really does show how much money 30 billion is when you can make millions in an hour. My first thought was, I think I could actually pull out off for the full year.

Most people need some kind of social interaction, including folks with conditions that make that hard. I'm probably not an exception to that but I have learned ways to pass full days of time just story developing and singing and such. Creating characters also helps ward the loneliness, although I think the hardest part is being unable to actually write anything down. I could easily do a year if I had enough paper and a way to draw or write.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If I were to do something so ridiculous for a full year for the full amount, I wouldn't be doing it for me. There's no way I would be able to spend 10Bn in my lifetime on things for me and my immediate family. I don't think that's even possible unless we were literally flushing money down the toilet, burning it, or throwing pallets of $100s from a plane while flying over a populated area.

I would use the 10Bn to create things like scholarship funds for colleges, where the only requirement is that you can prove you don't come from money (and can afford whatever education you want without help).

I would also be donating large amounts to charities and good causes, especially FOSS and things like the Internet archive.

Above and beyond that, I'd likely use my newfound wealth to create a company that builds open source or modular hardware for things currently dominated by big tech. Like mobile phones, specifically Android phones, and supporting companies doing similar work like framework.

I would only take enough to pay off my house, all debts, and for a savings/income fund so that I can live comfortably for the rest of my life without needing to work, both for myself, my spouse, and some members of my immediate family.

While in the box, I would let me ADHD brain wander endlessly and entertain itself, until it gets bored or tired, then sleep and repeat that 365 times.

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[–] dave@feddit.uk 19 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

The reports on the linked wiki page of the use of things like this as torture aside, is there any research / evidence on how things like this affect people who are treated this way voluntarily?

I’ve seen video of someone volunteering to be waterboarded to show that it’s not that bad if you know what’s happening (spoiler—it was still very bad). I’d assume other kinds of psychological torture would be just as hard to deal with, even with full knowledge and consent.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 27 points 3 weeks ago

vsauce of all people did a thing on this sort of voluntary sensory deprivation in their series mind field back in 2017. results were not good. michael spent i think three days in a white room with a bed and a box of food, and he was a wreck when he was let out. the loss of any sense of time really fucks with you apparently.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And the lights never go out and there is no clock

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 13 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I wanted to point this out as well, glad someone/you linked it.

The memer is basically 'would you get tortured for 30bn monies'?
And the kicker is that people torture other people like this without paying them, often/usually with the tortured not having done anything bad (not that that would justify torture of any kind).

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[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 weeks ago

If I survived the year, then spent the next year with $500k worth of therapy to become semi-normalish again, I'm still left with $29.9995 billion dollars. Hell yeah I'll do it.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

30 billion and a chance to catch up on sleep? You son of a bitch I'm in.

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[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

I would just goon the whole year

[–] BipolarSilence@lemmy.cafe 15 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think I would even be sane enough to spend the money if I got out

[–] blurb@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago

Well I have maladaptive daydreaming and I think that would be mostly enough to keep me sane for a little bit.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 13 points 3 weeks ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi

Hamatsu was challenged to stay alone, unclothed, in an apartment for Susunu! Denpa Shōnen, a Japanese reality-television show on Nippon Television, after winning a lottery for a "showbusiness-related job". Hamatsu was challenged to enter mail-in sweepstakes until he won ¥1 million (about $8,000) in total. Hamatsu started with nothing (including no clothes), was cut off from outside communication and broadcasting, and had nothing to keep him company except the magazines he combed through for sweepstakes entry forms. After spending 335 days to reach the target, Hamatsu set the Guinness world record for the "longest time survived on competition winnings".

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can I sit there for a day and get 82 million?

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

I can't afford 30 billion dollars, can I do it for free?

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] vane@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Why go out ? I would buy the place and stay there so everyone can fuck off.

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