The dollar can be used once a day. It has to be a dollar’s worth of a product, service or use of a product. For example, A dollar’s worth of a $100 TV would be the life of the TV divided by 100. You would get to enjoy the TV for that amount of time. The product or service is instant and doesn’t require any preparation. It just appears and disappears. Or you could have a TV permanently that is worth one dollar.
Buy etfs
I’m going to fuck it
The dollar?
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All he needs is a minute with a prostitute
Maybe…
Could there be a way to enjoy a dollar’s worth of a skydiving trip? I’m thinking of being teleported into the sky mid-drop, flailing about in a panic for a few seconds, then instantly reappearing back where I was before.
Lol, imaging switching from 15db typical room whisper sound to idk, 100db? sound of falling in terminal velocity and then back. The face expression is priceless
*Could there be a way to make someone else “enjoy”… :D
Twist: you keep the velocity you gained during the drop and splash on the living room floor right in front of your family.
Ballpark $300 per go, typically ~10,000 ft, internet says that’s 30 seconds of freefall… I think you can get a dollar’s worth of skydiving by rolling out of bed the wrong way.
Yes, you get the parachute and all and if it is a service where there is a set cost to skydive, then it is X over the time of the fall times one dollar over the cost of the entire service.
Shares in Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Intel at IPO dates. Maybe short some Boeing stock in 2022, with a call price.
I buy one dollar worth of Bitcoin… according to the value moments after Bicoin’s invention.
Its a magic dollar aint it? So the magic is that I get to choose the time period of its exchange value.
Stonks 🤓
using ‘the pizza’ as the exchange rate, 243.9 coins to the dollar. iirc, it was a $41 pizza order for 10,000 coins. save up for the 41 days then use the ‘magic’ to buy that guy’s pizza.
at today’s exchange rate, 10k coins is nearly $968m. accounting for exchange fees and taxes (capital gains, since you bought them years ago), lets call it an even $750m.
now if the ‘magic’ lets you repeat that process every 41 days…
If you choose, you can time travel to the ‘distance’ in time worth one dollar, however much that may be. There is also no rule against saving.
So I can travel back in time 8.27 minutes? Because that’s what a dollar is worth according to the US Federal Minimum wage.
Cool, I guess I can save up a year worth of magic dollars then I can go back in time 50 hours.
Choose any stock or crypto that went up by a lot in the last 8min, travel back, buy all your moneys worth and sell 8min later. Repeat every day
‘buy’ a dollar of someone’s time, kill 'em, then automatically teleport out and back to safety and alibis.
I’m going to turn it into pennies and drop pennies everywhere I go.
Not to brag, but if I made one dollar more per day, I wouldn’t even notice. A dollar ain’t worth a dime anymore.
But in answer to your question, ⅒th of a banana.
You can save it.
The only right answer is drugs
I buy one potato and enjoy its extended lifetime.
You can then plant it, and make more and eventually start a business. Then, a French fry company, lol.
Short bursts of great stuff are better than long periods of shitty stuff.
If an annual pass to a museum is $100, i would spend two day’s dollars buying 3-day passes to lots of different museums for a friend and me. Do we auto transport to the city? Or does the museum just appear at my house?
On the other days i would take a couple of laps around a track in some cool cars, have sips of some very expensive whiskey, and ride short sections of trains around the world.
During the week i would search the internet to find great $1 specials at bars all over the world and on weekends i would slowly have a beer on a beach in Mexico, vermouth in Barcelona, coffee in Modena, a mojito in havana, …
If you have a dollar, you can choose to either enjoy the beverage or the destination for a time equal to one dollar. You get a magic door and are teleported back as soon as one dollar’s worth is used. As I am sticking with only what I wrote as the rules, since there is no rule that says you cannot split it into 50 cents each, you can do that. You can also save up the money as that is not in the rules.
What does it mean the life of the product? Like how long it lasts before it breaks?
If I bought a million dollars worth a gold bar with a dollar, then it would last a millionth of its lifespan, which means basically still virtually forever. This means I can buy a million dollars worth of gold bar for a dollar and sell it for a million, and by the time it disappears, humanity might not even be around.
You can have one dollar’s amount of gold to keep forever or you can have any amount of gold for one dollar’s worth of time. It would depend on who you are ‘renting’ the gold from. If they say for a dollar you can have a pile of gold bars for X amount of minutes and then you give it back etc. You ask the magic dollar and out comes a ‘Spyro-esque’ Moneybags character lol. He might only let you touch the gold if he is stingy. The TV metaphor assumes the average life span of a TV these days. Or that particular model. So for a 1K TV, it would be a fraction 1/1000 of that TV life span.
I get the idea, but how do you determine the X amount of minutes?
If a TV lasts 15000 hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), and the TV costs $1000, and I choose to pay $1, I’ll be able to have 15 hours of use for a dollar. If that’s the case, I’d probably aim to pay for the TV to last a year with my typical use-case since by that time newer TV models will take their place and I could either get a discount for the same TV the following year, or get an upgrade for roughly the same price.
Or is it irrespective of how much I use it and it takes average duration of ownership with typical use into account, like if a TV model lasts 10 years on average, and I paid 1/1000 of its price I’ll get 3.65 days of use regardless of how many hours it was on or not? In that case, I’d probably spend a fraction of a dollar to buy a TV for the duration of the movie I’m going to watch every time.
About the gold, it will easily last quadrillions of years so it would mean I could borrow that gold bar for a few billions of years, license the use for the same amount of money (since it’s virtually infinite), and basically have unlimited amounts of money.
For the TV it is the second scenario you explained. It’s like you are renting it based on its overall price. For the gold, it is not yours, you can have any amount for a price negotiated by the seller. Then, it disappears OR you have one dollar’s worth of gold. Essentially the gold would be useless to rent so save up money each day and then buy the gold to keep. You are basically never really buying anything of value just renting it for whatever the seller decides is a fair amount of time worth a dollar. To illustrate, Rent a center could charge you to use a TV by the day, week, month and you make payments until you own it. The difference here is you don’t rent to own, but the calculations are the same. If they charge 100 per month to rent something you have one 1/100th of that month. But the dollar is mysterious so you could theoretically ask the magic dollar to just have the TV or gold appear for whatever is a fair amount of time to use it for. You can do the calculations or just see what the dollar calculates is fair. But if you want to keep the gold, it is 1 dollar of gold. And if you want to keep a TV, it is however big a one dollar TV could be. It’s magic, it defies normal conventions. You could ask to have one dollar’s worth of a gourmet meal if you want and it appears.
OK, so if I borrowed $1000 worth of gold with one magic dollar, how long would I have access to this gold for? How do I calculate it for items that don’t die?
If I pay a gourmet meal with one dollar, does that mean I can eat it without gaining weight because these calories will disappear after I eat it? Because honestly that would make cheat days consequence free.
For gold that practically lasts forever, you use how much longer you have in your lifespan, by average. Like how much longer could someone live to.
The gourmet meal would be the meal divided into a part equal to one dollar. Calories won’t disappear. I just realized I forgot how to do math so I am looking up how to convert it, lol.
That’s cool. So assuming I have 50 years left to live (for easy math) the $1000 worth of gold with one magic dollar would mean that I will get to keep it for 18 days and 6 hours. Or a million dollars worth of gold for 65 seconds. Honestly, if I were a performing magician, it would be a heck of a trick to perform. Hold a bar of gold and make it disappear, letting the audience try to find it.
If I were a crook I could sell the gold and the person who buys the gold would be screwed, but I wouldn’t do that since that’s fraud.
But you know what’s the real benefit here? Not needing to ever maintain or clean anything. I need to cook? Take a $100 pan that can last for 50 years, pay 0.2 magic cent and I get to use it for 10 minutes to cook my omelette, then it disappears and I won’t need to wash it. Use a chefs knife that disappears and I don’t need to sharpen it. Need a car? I don’t need to own it, but if I need a car for an hour, sure I’ll pay 5 cents and not even need to pay for parking. Assuming you drive for 20 hours a year, that’s 1 dollars per year.
