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For 300 million dollars, I think I'd manage.

by d23 3y ago

ivraatiems 3y ago
What if they threatened your family? Your kids? What if you had to move to another state or another country? Could you ever have normal friends again? Move around the world without a bodyguard and bulletproof windows? Large sums of money don't give you security in your current lifestyle. They completely and totally change your existence in permanent and often negative ways.
- d23 3y ago
  The problem: where are you getting literally any of this from? You’ve hopped up like 4 chains of unfounded assumptions.
  - ivraatiems 3y ago
    This sort of thing happens to people who get windfalls all the time: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lottery-winners-no-happy-ending_uk_5c2f6c40e4b08aaf7a98a41a https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lottery-winners-no-ha... https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna14723441 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna14723441 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/03/sudden-wealth-can-come-with-serious-emotional-and-financial-challenges.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/03/sudden-wealth-can-come-with-... and it coming from a whistleblower award against people you previously worked with will only make it a dozen times worse. This reddit post is a great retelling of the perils that await people who get these kinds of monetary windfalls: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/chb38xf/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/c...
    - fatfingerd 3y ago
      OTOH, it is generally the case that the outcome is unpredictable and we like to tell the stories where it is destructive even if in the average case it is overall beneficial. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35824058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35824058
- comfypotato 3y ago
  300 million easily pays for literally and metaphorically bulletproof security indefinitely. What security-related lifestyle changes couldn’t be overcome with this sum of money? On a different note, the lottery typically ruins people’s lives. There’s even a TV show about it. People just can’t adjust to that kind of change in wealth. I think this would be no different.
  - ivraatiems 3y ago
    "Overcome" in the sense of "you'll stay alive and still have a lot of money," not in the sense of "you'll get to keep the lifestyle you had before, just with more money." Your anonymity is gone forever.
    - comfypotato 3y ago
      Ah, yeah, definitely
- justinclift 3y ago
  > What if they threatened your family? Then they picked the wrong person to fuck with, as they'll be finding out? ;)
  - ivraatiems 3y ago
    I mean, if that's the kind of thing you want to spend your life dealing with, you'd make a better lottery winner than most.
    - justinclift 3y ago
      Thanks. Yeah, it's honestly not a problem.
  - flangola7 3y ago
    But you won't know until you get the call from the hospital. There's no opportunity to flex your badassery.
    - justinclift 3y ago
      Heh. That's not how these things work in practise. ;)

For 300 million dollars, I think I'd manage.

by d23 3y ago

For 300 million dollars, I think I'd manage.

What if they threatened your family? Your kids? What if you had to move to another state or another country? Could you ever have normal friends again? Move around the world without a bodyguard and bulletproof windows? Large sums of money don't give you security in your current lifestyle. They completely and totally change your existence in permanent and often negative ways.

d23 3y ago
The problem: where are you getting literally any of this from? You’ve hopped up like 4 chains of unfounded assumptions.
- ivraatiems 3y ago
  This sort of thing happens to people who get windfalls all the time: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lottery-winners-no-happy-ending_uk_5c2f6c40e4b08aaf7a98a41a https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lottery-winners-no-ha... https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna14723441 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna14723441 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/03/sudden-wealth-can-come-with-serious-emotional-and-financial-challenges.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/03/sudden-wealth-can-come-with-... and it coming from a whistleblower award against people you previously worked with will only make it a dozen times worse. This reddit post is a great retelling of the perils that await people who get these kinds of monetary windfalls: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/chb38xf/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/c...
  - fatfingerd 3y ago
    OTOH, it is generally the case that the outcome is unpredictable and we like to tell the stories where it is destructive even if in the average case it is overall beneficial. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35824058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35824058
comfypotato 3y ago
300 million easily pays for literally and metaphorically bulletproof security indefinitely. What security-related lifestyle changes couldn’t be overcome with this sum of money? On a different note, the lottery typically ruins people’s lives. There’s even a TV show about it. People just can’t adjust to that kind of change in wealth. I think this would be no different.
- ivraatiems 3y ago
  "Overcome" in the sense of "you'll stay alive and still have a lot of money," not in the sense of "you'll get to keep the lifestyle you had before, just with more money." Your anonymity is gone forever.
  - comfypotato 3y ago
    Ah, yeah, definitely
justinclift 3y ago
> What if they threatened your family? Then they picked the wrong person to fuck with, as they'll be finding out? ;)
- ivraatiems 3y ago
  I mean, if that's the kind of thing you want to spend your life dealing with, you'd make a better lottery winner than most.
  - justinclift 3y ago
    Thanks. Yeah, it's honestly not a problem.
- flangola7 3y ago
  But you won't know until you get the call from the hospital. There's no opportunity to flex your badassery.
  - justinclift 3y ago
    Heh. That's not how these things work in practise. ;)