You have a magic dollar that allows you to do one dollar's worth of anything. What are you doing with it? - (cross post from [email protected] )
You have a magic dollar that allows you to do one dollar's worth of anything. What are you doing with it? - (cross post from [email protected] )
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.
Looks like I'm buying $1 of cryptocurrency a day. After a year, I'd have somewhere between $1 and $25K.
I can do one dollar's worth of anything GUARANTEED?
That one's easy: I'll buy a fraction of a winning lottery ticket.
Congrats you won half of a two dollar scratcher. Here is your $2.50
I get to convert my $1 of expirable daily money into $2.50 of real money? Sounds good to me.
One dollar worth of sand, teleported into the lungs of my choice.
That is totally gonna be somebody's Stand's power in part 9 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. I'm calling it.
One dollar of electricity at the cheapest rate available. Removing all transfer and admin cost can produce it anywhere and do super cool stuff like ice on the dessert or light anywhere. This cam translate into a fun gig that yields good money one dollar at the time.
MRW electricity prices go negative:
Buy a plot of land, preferably with a house on it. If you assume that the land will last until the death of the planet, even if it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to 'buy', $1 / day worth of that would still last you for your lifetime. If it doesn't last that long, you could calculate the length of time until the death of the planet (or of the human race) by dividing the time you got it by the price in dollars, and that'd be valuable information, too. Bonus points if you only keep it for a few minutes.
You need to consider the net present value of all future taxes. I’m guessing $1 won’t get you much time each day.
I'd argue that the taxes are a separate cost, which would be paid separately rather than being included in the "purchase price" you're using your dollar to offset. In OP's example, the TV requires electricity to run, but the cost of that electricity is (presumably) not bundled into the purchase price. Just like maintenance on the house would not be included up front, as it's a separate, additional cost.
If you reject that, I'd argue that the land will exist well beyond the fall of civilization, and at some point, there won't be a government to tax it. It will, however, still exist. If the land costs $400,000, and taxes are $10k / year, and we expect Earth to last about 8 billion years, and we expect government taxing the land to exist for, say, generously, 10,000 of those years, that's only a net cost of $0.0125 per year. In this case, the land itself only costs $0.00005 per year, so you could buy quite a lot of things for your dollar, in fact.
1$ worth of data transfer from any server. Using S3 pricing as an estimate, it can give me 111 GB of transfer out.
I could use partials of it to extract various companies' customer data and extort them for ransom; or download the source code of a popular commercial program then expose it for everyone.
Later on though, that dollar won't buy you anywhere close to enough attorney time to keep you out of prison.
Get the mail server data, lots of unencrypted internal company info you can use for insider trading (it's going to take any tax authority a while to notice joe nobody getting rich suspiciously well timed)
How is this different from the dollars I have now?
Unlimited free shipping
$1 worth of sex, please. More than I need.
I'd buy sone bitcoin daily and sell it after a few years
I'm pretty sure I can find $1 worth of something I'd like, but I cannot right now, so probably if possible just letting that $1 go towards development of something like SuperTuxKart or Shattered Pixel Dungeon each day. Not much, but better than nothing.
So what happens if the thing I buy is information? Technically would have infinite lifespan— but if I only remembered it for a certain amount of time (if tied to a service or something, maybe could copy it before the time ran out, eg in the case of a movie or Death Star plans etc)
Knowledge is priceless.
one dollars worth of a supermassive black hole please.
everyone is coming for the ride of their lives.
Hate to burst your bubble, but $1 worth of black hole would be so small, that it would likely evaporate before it did any damage to anything.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation
And if it really was $1 worth of time with the black hole, I doubt it would do any damage cause the gravity wouldn't have time to do anything.
One dollar won't buy much of anything. Give me a magic ten instead.
I can't even make a collect call for a dollar anymore. SMH
I guess I'll buy an Arizona tea from somewhere other than a gas station, in a state with no can deposit.
I would like $1 worth of Flying Dreams
I'd just get a can of PBR delivered every day. Have a six pack a week and one for fun.
My wish is to take my dollar and by one share of Tesla at market price.
You might be saving for almost a year for one share of Tesla.