ITT: people forgetting that prisoners in the US are isolated like this, and it’s literal torture.
You’re not special.
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.
I can’t afford 30 billion dollars, can I do it for free?
I’m going insane already what’s the difference
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”.
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.
This comment exposes how wrong it actually is, that we allow individuals to become billionaires…
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.
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.
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.
I wonder if they’d still want to do it after the year of isolation.
I’d probably want to use the money to buy the political influence to end solitary confinement. And also ending private prisons while we’re at it.
Is it fair or just to expect one person to suffer for the benefit of others?
According to God, yes, it’s fair and makes a whole lot of sense actually.
[The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas intensifies]
The Ones Who Walk toward Omelas, To Volunteer for the Pain Pit
Where is the money coming from? It would be just redistributing money to give it to some lucky people. Instead we could fight against inequality and skip a year of misery.
Did someone mention Linearity? 😁😁
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I’d spend all 30B within a month absolutely feasting on the rich
Yeah I wouldn’t know what to do with 30 billion. Pay off the mortgage, couple of new cars, irrigate the world’s deserts?
Fair. Though I think if I had 30 billion I’d start build better housing in 3rd world countries or something like that
Shit. 1 million is enough for me, I’m not going to earn that the rest of my life.
So sign me up for 20 mins in there.
Can I sit there for a day and get 82 million?
Think of it this way, new game.
First month you get $0.01, the second month you get $0.02, the third month you get $0.04…
Keep doubling that for each month you stay in this room, to a maximum of $1.5 Trillion after 4 years.
Each successive month has a 1% chance of resetting the clock.
How many months do you stay?
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.
Exactly my thinking. For $30 billion I don’t care if I come out the other side a mindless husk. I’m leaving instructions before I go in about what to do with the money and improving as many lives as I can.
If I make it out with enough of my mind to enjoy some of it myself then that’s just gravy.
I would just goon the whole year
Of all the ways to get 30 billion dollars, this would probably be the least emotionally disturbing choice.
Only ethical billionaire
Of course they’d be a fucking nutter once released
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.
But then you came along?
No she died. I took care of her for years.
The joke felt funnier und more lighthearted in my head. Sorry for your loss.
No problem. Thanks for the apology. I appreciate it.
Well, not a ‘nutter’ compared to other billionaires tho.
Inherit it from parents who… Ok, I see your point
Eh, it doesn’t make you immoral to inherit money from an evil person, but it’s immoral to keep it.
The intended implication was that these may not be the best parents. The comment above was about being emotional disturbed. Sure, it was about choices but let’s read over that
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
vsauce did something like this for 3 days and he nearly lost his mind. i think 2 days max is all us regular people can do
Totally the YouTuber wasn’t playing it up or exaggerating for the engagement.
just cant be wrong ever huh?
If my opponent is named Vsauce I will have my doubts.
Yeah, the arbitrary cash amounts in these would you memes are always a little goofy, as if the creator thinks 30-billion is so high that anyone seeing it will start screaming “YAAASSSS GIRL!!” no matter what the challenge. 100-million would be just as effective to the average person. Maybe even 10-million if your wealth aspirations are not to buy a golden palace with twelve Lamborghinis and a rocket pad.
30 billion made me instantly go yes. I would be morally obligated to do it.
I’m with you. A day or two at most is all I would need to be set for life for anything I would ever want.
I like fancy tech, so I might stick around for a second or third day because fancy tech isn’t cheap.
People in my field refer to it as “backing up the money dump truck to (vendor) HQ” … Just to give some context.
how insidious a trap, thinking like that. you may find yourself stuck there for the year after all! /s
Yep, I’d just exercise and sleep.
As someone who has (voluntarily) done 24 hours in solitary confinement with nothing but a blanket, a toilet, a concrete floor, and one meal a day, I don’t think anyone here will last more than 3 days. That was the longest, most painful 24 hours of my life.
So I’m assuming I get food, water and a bathroom. Also a lightswitch though likely one I control myself so I can’t use it to gauge time. I’m probably not making it out fully sane but I think there are some mitigation strategies.
- Exercise, try and gameify it by keeping a high score.
- Arts and crafts with my food (maybe my hair too?)
- Some recreational math potentially using the grid of tiles, probably no more than 5 minutes a day before I get sick of it but any variety helps.
- Wall looks potentially climbable?
- Get good at shadow puppets.
I don’t think I would even be sane enough to spend the money if I got out
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.
You’re right, you’d go crazy, check out this vid of VSauce doing it for three days. https://youtu.be/iqKdEhx-dD4
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.
If the year in solitary confinement doesn’t turn you into a psychopath the $30 billion will!
