Since this is our 2nd week, for those who are new to it, each Wednesday we will feature a hypothetical to help people step outside of their daily work for just a few minutes. Use your imagination and try to put yourself in each situation and how you would handle it. So here we go.
Today’s hypothetical comes down to money and personal space.
You learn that you’ve just won the largest lottery prize in the history of lotteries. You have the only winning ticket. $50,000,000,000 (50 BILLION). You have two options to bring home the money:
- You can keep all $50 billion, no taxes owed, but your life will become a headline story on a daily basis. Everything you do will be plastered all over magazines and every wrong move you make will turn into headline news. Paparazzi will always be on your tail.
or
- You will have to continue your full time job without the option to quit, be fired or terminated. Your money will be a complete secret, meaning you cannot tell a single person what happened. This includes spouses, kids, best friends, attorney, mom or dad. After taxes, charities, and miscellaneous fees, you’ll walk away with $20 billion.
So which would you go for? The full $50 billion dollars and the crazy public lifestyle or a very secretive life always having to dance around the fact you just paid cash for a nice car?
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No brainer….it’s #2. You wouldn’t have to “quit” your job…you could just stop showing up. And for being obligated not to tell anyone else….what a gift! It’d be rad to have that kind of bankroll and just deflect everyone with a “don’t worry about it” when they ask.
Since I’ve been living the life of #2 for a few years, I’d have to give #1 a shot. HA!
No, I’d go for #1 and invest my money in space travel. Then I’d just wait until I was mid 50’s and take off in search of another world. Money wouldn’t matter out there. The only thing that would matter is not crashing, watch out for black holes and beer.
Seems like #1 is pretty much like having a personal blog, only on a larger scale. Everything I do is already plastered all over my blogs. Every wrong move results in nasty little troll comments or public ridicule on someone else’s blog. Paparazzi can at least be talked into pumping gas, lighting cigarettes and fetching martinis.
Yeah, I’ll take that one.
But do I have to tell my husband and kids about the money?
$50 billion should allow you some simple allowance money. you’ll always be chief.
Ha ha, of course # 1!
I wish one day I had to deal with this kind of problems!
I would probably have to say #2 also. If I did #1, I would probably never see the full $50 billion. I would die before the age of 50 overdosed on drugs like all the other popstars from all the stress from paparazzi constantly stalking you.
Wicko wrote: You’ll always be chief.
You DO know how to make a girl’s bra feel tighter, don’t you?
Scarlett, you say that like it’s a bad thing…
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