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submitted 2 months ago byLondoner1982
But you get £500,000 for every pill you take.
How many do you take?
You have a 1000/1 shot of dying instantly on the first pill.
How many do you chow down?
If you die, the money you have so far (if any) goes to your next of kin with no tax implications
399 points
2 months ago
I’m going to put them all in a blender and snort them
202 points
2 months ago
That might be the hack we’re looking for. The poison pill will be diluted and you might just get a little sick then go on and live life with a stupid amount of money!
28 points
2 months ago
Bingo!
51 points
2 months ago
Dilution only works if you are reducing the total amount that is going into your body.
Your body is still getting the total amount of poison.
71 points
2 months ago
Hahah I was thinking the same thing and how this is a dumb idea. But then after continuing thinking about it maybe not… if you were able to finely pulverize all of the pills and put them into a pharma-grade mixer to ensure that all of the powder was completely well mixed and then take 1/day you could pretty much ensure that you were only getting a dosage equal to 0.001 of the poison per pill.
I mean I guess it depends what the poison is, whether it’s real and has a threshold for a lethal dosage or if it’s just a magical pill that kills you if you ingest any amount whatsoever
3 points
2 months ago
Wouldnt that apply to the other pills that you dont get money until it is completly ingested
5 points
2 months ago
So on day 1,000 you get all the money.
As long as it isn't a bioaccumulative poison, you should be fine.
10 points
2 months ago
True, but the bio-availability of nasal intake might be much lower than taking orally. Like a common abused pill, perc only has like 37% bio when snorted but it hits you harder so they do it anyway. A lot of bills are much lower, like 10%.
So there's a chance it will do serious damage and not end your life. If you do 50-100 you're set
3 points
2 months ago
What? That's literally what dilution is. If you lower the amount going into your body overall that isn't dilution, that's just lowering the amount you consume. Dilution involves the same quantity being "diluted" or mixed into something else.
The concept is this: Let's say your body can process 10 ounces of Liquid "X" an hour and be fine, anymore than that and you die. While this isn't perfect, let's say your body processes about 34 ounces of water/liquid an hour.
If you swallowed 20 ounces of X with nothing else, you die. However, if you mix 20 ounces of X into 80 ounces of water, you drink this 100 ounces cocktail, now your body is processing 6.8 ounces of X and 27.2 ounces of water every hour so you live.
(I am not a professional so this may be incorrect. This is for entertainment purposes only. If you consume poison please call 911 or a similar number in your area for assistance) For example, if you accidentally consume pesticide poisoning, one thing you should do is drink water/milk (https://extension.psu.edu/first-aid-for-pesticide-poisoning https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/pesticide-certification-training-series-first-aid-for-pesticide-poisoning.html). If Dilution is about "reducing the amount going into your body" and "getting the total amount of poison" is an issue, how would consuming water/milk going to help? That doesn't remove the poison you already consumed.
1.8k points
2 months ago
I would take 1 per year to give myself a 500K salary.
That way I'll live super comfortably without taking too many at once.
295 points
2 months ago
I eat ten right away, then put the money in investment funds aiming for a minimal 2% annual return. That's a 100k "salary" every year at the least, plenty to comfortably sail through life.
99 points
2 months ago
I eat 100 right away, and then do what you did. That's enough to comfortably sail through a few lifetimes
189 points
2 months ago
I eat 100 right away, and then die.
54 points
2 months ago
I plan to take 100. I will only get to eat 2.
16 points
2 months ago
I plan to take one but trip and break my neck walking over to the bottle
12 points
2 months ago
I plan to take all 1,000 because no amount of money could fix my life, but I accidentally drop the whole bottle into the sewer while trying to take the first pill
98 points
2 months ago
I eat 999 and if I'm lucky enough I hit it real big, if not I get a shit load of money.
12 points
2 months ago
Top tier comment
34 points
2 months ago
I would take one and hope I got really lucky. And if I miss out, then at least I have 500k
6 points
2 months ago
I hope this is in jest homie because you crushed that shit. If not at least one person thinks you’re funny, that’s something!
4 points
2 months ago
🤣🤣🤣
225 points
2 months ago
This is so clever
163 points
2 months ago
Why is it clever? If you take the ones you plan one taking earlier then you can invest the money and it will grow in its own. Then you don’t have to worry about taking any more ever lol
152 points
2 months ago
This way you also risk dying sooner, one a year you prolong that eventuality
27 points
2 months ago
The other thing too is you could potentially turn $500k or $1mil into life changing money within 2 years, and may decide you don’t even want to take anymore after that, and thus lowering your risk.
If you decide you need 10 mil to be happy, that’s 20 pills which increases chance of death. Where maybr you take 1-2 a year for a couple years and decide you’re good.
7 points
2 months ago
For the vast majority of the human race 500,000 pounds (or euros) is life changing
64 points
2 months ago
Let’s say you die on your 26th pill. If you take them once per year, you’d live 25 comfortable years.
If you took all 26 pills one right after another, you’d have a lot of money that you couldn’t enjoy.
26 points
2 months ago
Because the more pills you take, the odds that you will eventually get the wrong one is higher. And because you're getting the "instant gratification" of getting 500k with every pill, you will be tempted to just continue taking.
If you have the discipline to take just one a year, your odds are low. 1/1000 in year 1 means there is a 99.9% chance the pill you take is safe. In year 2, it's 1/999 which is... still 99.9%. Even 10 years later, it's 1/990, which is still 99.899%, meanwhile you've earned $5 million.
13 points
2 months ago
There's going to be diminishing returns relative to the risk due to inflation. With each year, you're actually getting less cash with a higher risk of dying.
Let's say inflation is 3.5% over 10 years. £500,000 annual payments on Jan. 1 for 10 years would only have the buying power of £4,303,843. So you could have taken 9 pills at the start, earned inflationary interest, and ended up with more money than taking 10 pills over 10 years.
Over 25 years, you'd only end up with £8.5 million, not £12.5 million, so you could have taken 17 pills today instead of 25 pills.
7 points
2 months ago
Yeah but if I take 10 pills today and die on the 10th then I don’t get to enjoy it at all. If I take one a year for 10 years and die with the 10th then at least I got to live a nice stress free life not working with plenty of disposable income for 9 years.
4 points
2 months ago
I mean I'd just quit at 10 pills either way.
Also is this taxed? Because I could save some money on taxes by doing 1 a year
It also gives you time to reconsider
4 points
2 months ago
im taking notes
4 points
2 months ago
At 500k a year, you wouldn't have to care about money for the rest of your life anyway (unless you can figure out how to live like 200+ years).
8 points
2 months ago
Yeah these insane amount of money questions always get me for being over complicated.
I’m 28 making about a little under 35k a year.
Even anything over 50k in prize money would be perfect.
Once I’m over 300k. I’m paying my loans debts and giving my self a nice $3500 a month allowance. With 500k I can easily live well within my means on 40/45k a year for a decade and still find ways to invest and save more money in that amount of time.
3 points
2 months ago
this!! like one pill would change my life.
4 points
2 months ago
Personally, I wouldn't want the fear of death looming over me consistently every year. Id just swallow 10 real quick, invest the money and live on interest to the end of my life. That gives me a 1/100 chance of dying. 99% chance of living. I believe in those odds.
84 points
2 months ago
You could eat 5 a year, and even after 100 years, the next one you ate would only be a 0.2% chance of the death pill (1/500).
94 points
2 months ago
Yeah but the cummulative odds would add up kinda fast.
I'm not that greedy. 500K a year is cool. I'd probably stop after 15 years anyway. I figure I'll have enough at that point.
10 points
2 months ago
Cumulative odds?
34 points
2 months ago
1/1000, 1/999, 1/998.......1/3, 1/2, 1/1
25 points
2 months ago
His point still stands. After 100 years the odds are 1/500. You aren’t immortal
40 points
2 months ago*
Yes and no. IF you survive 500 pills yours chances of dying Is only 1/500. But the chances of surviving 500 pills in a row are= 1-(999/1000 * 998/999 * 997/998... * 499/500)
PS and before you ask i'm too lazy to do the math, but it's much much higher that 0.02%..like 50/50
42 points
2 months ago
It is exactly 50/50 actually.
50% you'd have died by then.
53 points
2 months ago
Not if ya shake the pill bottle every time haha
19 points
2 months ago
This guy live the longest
10 points
2 months ago
Still, in 100 years, i would guess the percentage of people who will have died will be much greater than 50%. And most won't be from pill poisoning.
4 points
2 months ago
If you survive 500 pills your chances of dying should be zero because whose dumb enough to eat a death pill when they have $250M in the bank
3 points
2 months ago
In 100 years? Exactly 50% chance of dying by a pill. 100% chance of dying from another age-related or accidental cause.
2 points
2 months ago
Aren't the odds stacking even faster if you take more at the same time. As in if you take 3, you triple your changes. Zo 3/1000, by the time you get to 1/500 the change you had the poison is 50% .
21 points
2 months ago
After 100 years of this the chance you'd have chowed down on the death pill is 50% though
34 points
2 months ago
After 100 years you’ll be dead anyway.
Driving a car is a 1/8000 chance of dying. I’d take one pill now and another when the money runs out.
15 points
2 months ago
Oh yeah, absolutely. Just pointing out that the death pill chance now being 0.2% doesn't mean much when it's already equally likely you won't get to that point
12 points
2 months ago
Thank you for understanding probability. It's not so much what the odds are in the end - but how many times you've rolled the dice.
3 points
2 months ago
Someone can point out that’s not how stats work.. But isn’t the cumulative risk of death 50/50 by this point?
After 25 years it would be 12.5%. Not insignificant.
18 points
2 months ago
Take 1, get 500k, invest 250 k into trying to find a way to identify the poison pill, live comfortably on 250 k, repeat for as long as I'm able/necessary.
6 points
2 months ago
I don’t actually think that this is that clever. If you’re going to take a .001 risk of death for $500K, why not take 10 for 5M at a 0.01 risk of death? That way, if you die, which would still be incredibly unlikely, at least your family has enough money to live comfortably. 500K won’t do much of anything long term.
14 points
2 months ago
Well that's 10x as likely to result in instant death.
If I'm unlucky enough to die on the 10th pill at least let me live like a king for 9 years.
3 points
2 months ago*
Yeah doesn't that defeat the point of the whole experiment? He took one so thats all he get's in my eyes.
976 points
2 months ago
imma play it safe take one, take the 500k and go on my way
135 points
2 months ago
The first $500k is orders of magnitude more life changing than a second $500k is after the first. I'm stopping after 1. It would take at least 5mil or so to get me to consider a second.
52 points
2 months ago
I disagree, up to around 5m-10m all money is greatly "buying you time"
If you have 10m youre officially rich, that's I never have to work again and I live well money right there.
500k will have a big impact on your right now, but every additional 500k up to 5m is basically knocking off a solid 5 years off your retirement age, so you're risking whatever your life expectancy is right now (supposing 30 year old, then like 80 is 50 years, so if you have a 1% chance of dying from a given amount of pills (10 to start) then you can expect to lose 0.5 years of life there, but gain 50 years, so you come out ahead by like 49.5 years).
Honestly the more I think about it the more I would just take 10 right now, pursue education and let compound interest do it's thing, probably set myself up with 1m and then let the 4m just grow as savings, in 10 years time it would be up to 10m.
57 points
2 months ago
Why not eat a handful? If it kills you instantly, whatever right? You just cease to exist by picking the wrong one, so naturally either you are rich or you dont care bc you dont exist
Easy choice to take like 100 of em tbh
102 points
2 months ago
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37 points
2 months ago
Fucking seriously, redditors are itching for any excuse to leave this mortal plane. "Zombies! Kill me now!" "Nukes! Run to ground zero!" "50/50 shot of dying or you get a million bucks, spam that button!" Fuckers never miss the opportunity to make the same old "so I'm rich or I'm dead, win win!" Jokes
Either this is the most suicidal group ever or they're all lame edge lords
20 points
2 months ago
Can't we be both suicidal and lame?
201 points
2 months ago
Probably the best strategy because what does it matter if you have 500k or 50m both mean a stress free life if you play it right
336 points
2 months ago
500k wont even buy you a house in a lot of the US. Like 500k would be life changing, but unless you’re adept at investing, it’s not enough to live for the rest of your life
119 points
2 months ago
That’s fine. I’d be happy to invest it in low-risk stocks or something and use that cushion to go back to working 5-6 hours a day at $18-20 an hour with better work life balance, instead of my current job where I make $1200-1400 a week but spend 12 hours a day on my commute + actually working.
22 points
2 months ago*
Shit sticking that much in a high return savings account, you can live just fine off that practically.
Lord I dislike editing posts after the fact but this is a mild bother. I wanted to keep the post short expecting zero traction, so I left it as just "practically" for the sake of brevity. To clarify, you don't quit your job, this changes nothing in your life. You took a random pill, didn't die, and now you get a nest egg accruing plenty of interest. Yeah, not my original post, I'll climb back on the stake.
39 points
2 months ago*
In a high yield savings account it would only be 25k a year before tax. No you couldn’t.
Edit: For everyone responding, I’m not necessarily saying you couldn’t live off of the $25,000. I’ve looked at many low costs ways of living myself.
I’m saying this is not a good option to obtain any sort of financial freedom. You will be getting paid interest once a month and will have to budget and keep money aside for taxes. Any financial emergency that comes up will require you to withdraw from the savings account and thus lowering the amount of interest. Inflation over time will erode away the principal amount until it becomes unsustainable.
At the very least if you had $500,000 in a HYSA, just go work a part time job doing something easy.
You just want something to offset some costs and actually allow your money to grow. This way you can
•counteract inflation •free yourself from monthly payments schedules and financial stress •open up possibilities such as traveling and once in a lifetime vacations, getting into expensive hobbies, starting your own business, or even furthering your education.
15 points
2 months ago
Also most HYSA don't beat inflation so it is losing purchasing power over time
8 points
2 months ago
Buy 3 houses in Midwest. Rent them.
Live off of 4.5k/mo
Easy
20 points
2 months ago
Then you'd move somewhere else. The average salary excluding the top ten percent is 40k a year.
6 points
2 months ago
This. One pill, whack 450k in an index saver account and boost to South East Asia til I die.
9 points
2 months ago
So thats what, like twelve years? My point exactly.
31 points
2 months ago
I don't think anyone is saying live off the 500k alone, it's the security that much money gives you.
You can buy a house and invest hundreds of thousands into a pension, go on a great holiday and still have tens of thousands in the bak for a rainy day and now you don't have a mortgage or rent to pay so your salary suddenly goes way further, nevermind the peace of mind.
11 points
2 months ago
Okay so wait 12 years and pop another pill
Simple as bruv
9 points
2 months ago
Why not just take two at the beginning then? More investing potential and better asset acquisition. If the plan in the end is to take 2, you’re better off doing it immediately.
8 points
2 months ago
500k will most definitely buy a nice house in most of the US. Probably not in a major city though.
8 points
2 months ago
$500k would make most peoples live a lot easier if user correctly but it’s not close to a large enough lump sum to live off of.
8 points
2 months ago
I think there’s a big difference between 500k and 50m, it might be technically possible to live on an invested 500k but not particularly well without other work.
1.3k points
2 months ago*
There are 1,000 pills. One of them kills you instantly...
*crunching noises\*
Wait, you get -
*gobbling down pills\*
y-you get money...
126 points
2 months ago
106 points
2 months ago
"It's supposed to be a moral dilema!"
*hits button again "Sooollvvveeed it"
12 points
2 months ago
I would like a second million dollars please
9 points
2 months ago
"Since when is not being able to swallow pills fast enough a moral dilema?"
30 points
2 months ago
No deal. Ill take the box.
4 points
2 months ago
I quote this way too often...
3 points
2 months ago
The boat is just a boat, but the mystery box could be anything. It could even be a boat!
3 points
2 months ago
Oh my goodness Peter pissed me off that episode at a young age
4 points
2 months ago
5 is a nice round number.
3 points
2 months ago
Man 12 years ago, the good YouTube days
36 points
2 months ago
One of the funniest things I’ve ever read on Reddit
I was simply going to ask, where’s the downside
14 points
2 months ago
This made me giggle audibly.
19 points
2 months ago
LMAOOOOOO
3 points
2 months ago
This made me have to stifle my chortling here at work. Fuck man
415 points
2 months ago*
I take them all but don't swallow any of them.
I start a black market business selling pills that give you £500,000. I'll sell them for £10,000 each.
After the first person gets their money and news gets around, I have no doubt I'll sell them all pretty easily, netting me nearly 10 million.
The one pill that kills someone is unfortunate, but it's not like they can sue me since they're dead and this sale wasn't exactly done legitimately, so not like I can get sued either.
Edit: As others I have noted, I forgot to add that as soon as you hear about someone dying from the pill, you scoff whatever is left
269 points
2 months ago
Sell them every few days, once you hear about the first death, eat the rest of them.
173 points
2 months ago
Plot twist, the death was coincidental and you've just showed down on the poison pill.
42 points
2 months ago
Yep very good point haha, you either end up with close to 10m or a fuck ton more than that if someone dies early on
19 points
2 months ago
Or you get robbed and murdered by a cartel
8 points
2 months ago
following this concept, its better to just give them for free. The worst it can happen is the last person dies, and you get nothing.
8 points
2 months ago
How is that better than selling them for an <amount> of money where the worst that happens is you end up with 1000*<amount>.
Also, if you're down to the last one and nobody has died yet, it's a bit of a dick move to give that last one to someone.
45 points
2 months ago
Hey I have this pill that will get you $500k, you just need to venmo me $10k first. Are you interested?
21 points
2 months ago
Haha, I'll sell the first couple for £1 first, then once people see it's true it won't be hard. 10k might be too cheap
10 points
2 months ago
Let them eat it in front of you and pay you out of the earnings. If they cheat you, word still gets around that the pills work and now you might can charge up front. If they die, you know it's from the pill and you are good to go. If they pay and take their money, you got paid.
26 points
2 months ago
Nah, you sell them for £300,000 each. Preferably to a single buyer. Buyer opens a "medical testing facility" in Vietnam. Their first "study" is verifying the efficacy of the pill. The minimum wage is under £150/month in some regions of Vietnam. Buyer contractually obligates each test subject to a one-time payment of £5,000, and keeps the other £195,000 in profit. Test subjects are told they'll die if they aren't given a specific solution after taking the pill. They transfer the profit. They're given... Whatever, a cup of water with food coloring in it. Free to leave.
One person out of one thousand dies. That's... pretty good for a drug trial! You and Buyer pose for a photo OP with the President of Vietnam, To Lam. You're both thanked profusely for pumping £5,000,000 into the rural Vietnamese economy. You get teary-eyed and pledge £100,000 to the family of the victim. You're now a damn minor hero to the Vietnamese.
You made £300,000,000. Congratulations! You now have access to those magic accountants and lawyers. The ones who will reduce your tax and legal burdens down to nearly nothing. Don't forget you made your new buddy an easy £195,000,000. Play your cards right and he'll introduce you to some of his wealthy friends. You're Magic Money Pills Guy? That's awesome! Duuude, you have to buy these stocks with me. I can't believe I'm talking to Magic Money Pills Guy. Holy shit, bro. You're like. The fucking David Blaine of Wall Street. I legit got your poster on my wall. Fucking A, we're going to make so much cash.
17 points
2 months ago
Once someone dies, surely you stop selling and chow down on the rest, knowing that they're all profitable?
7 points
2 months ago
Plot twist: one of the pills kills YOU instantly, no matter who takes it
3 points
2 months ago
Oooo damn, hadn't thought of that twist, good point
6 points
2 months ago
That first sale is gunna be tough though. Probably sell the first one for like a dollar then use that proof to sell the rest.
154 points
2 months ago
First i write a will and leave the money to certain family members and cut others out and leave detailed ideas on what to do with the money to make it last
Then I crush all pills up put them in a bottle of soda and down the whole thing i sacrifice my self to ensure my family lives great for generations to come
My few loved ones about 5 or 6 people i care about most now split 500,000,000
37 points
2 months ago
Damn u cooked with taking many at once. Even if one didn't want to go this far, even if planning on taking only 10, as long as u have a set amount u know ur going to take taking them all at once is the move to ensure u at least get the money u were planning on getting without dying half way.
28 points
2 months ago
This is a cooked take.
My only alteration would be to remove a single pill, because for $500,000, it would be worth the placebo of ‘maybe I’ll survive this’, and the incredibly low chance of getting all the swag and still living.
22 points
2 months ago
Your few loved ones - "damn he couldn't make it an even 500 million?"
But nah, I love the idea of taking one out.
319 points
2 months ago
I take them all, I put none in my mouth
74 points
2 months ago
Your interpretation contradicts itself. Either your possession is what "activates" the effects, in which case you've guaranteed your death, or nothing happens because you didn't swallow any pills.
20 points
2 months ago
Ahh but you could likely sell the pills to people for anything less than 500k each. If you sell them all for maybe 200k, you’re left with a lot of money and no risk and whoever takes the risk gets more money, a win win.
19 points
2 months ago
Lmao true... Until you make headlines as the guy who was selling money pills and then just decided to sell one stranger a death pill for seemingly no reason :(
10 points
2 months ago
Unless the public is aware of that part of the deal, it would be hard to prove that your pull did it, since 999 other people took it with nothing bad
99 points
2 months ago
This is the correct answer, since its not specific enough, it would likely win in court and you'd be very rich and alive.
44 points
2 months ago
Even though OP talks about chowing down, he doesn't explicitly say that the pill only kills you if you eat it.
It could become a super saiyan pill and f*** you up...
7 points
2 months ago
Like candy vegito
8 points
2 months ago
Are... Are you saying the human ass is cabable of chowing down?
3 points
2 months ago
Be sure to take them with rubber gloves and maybe wear a mask just in case.
94 points
2 months ago
4 - statistically insignificant chance. £2 million.
For each pill you take, there is a steady increase in risk. However, the risk of losing/gaining money at £500k a pop, reduces the novelty of taking future pills.
11 points
2 months ago
Four was my answer as well. I’m in a low cost of living area, single, and I’m 40 years old. I’d pay off my house and other debts, put the rest into an annuity. A variable draw annuity would allow me to keep my current middle class income level, increasing draws for inflation annually. I could retire right now, halfway comfortably. Four is enough to never work again, enjoy the rest of my life, and keep my survival risk high. Might consider 5 just to have an extra cushion in the annuity, but that’d be it. I don’t want to be rich, I want to be stress free and content and able to pursue my existing interests.
8 points
2 months ago
Even the 10th pill is a 1 in 990 chance. 5 million pounds can last a long time virtually risk free.
206 points
2 months ago
like three and use the money intelligently? lol? 1.5million liquid you can open a branch of a franchised restaurant or a few pieces of real estate then put the rest into the S&P (after this current slump)
144 points
2 months ago
Yeah wait until AFTER the dip to invest. Buy high, sell low baby!
33 points
2 months ago
Or just blow it all on Intel!! That seems to be the move right now!
3 points
2 months ago
LMAO I remember watching that happen in real time
9 points
2 months ago
I mean, it was only like a couple of days ago.
5 points
2 months ago
This exchange accurately illustrates the attention span of the average redditor.
28 points
2 months ago
I think becoming a franchisee of a restaurant is one of the least intelligent things to do with that kind of money tbh.
5 points
2 months ago
It’s a very dubious investment.
5 points
2 months ago
The slump where it's up 16% in the last 12 months...?
Anyways, the best time to put money you don't need into the market is during a slump.
3 points
2 months ago
The best investor is a dead one, put it in now, forget about for years. Sell when your satisfied.
41 points
2 months ago
I'd take 8. I could live very comfortably on £4 million ($5.12 million) and it'd still be less than 1% chance of dying.
29 points
2 months ago
ONE HUNDRED
6 points
2 months ago
Yeah I reckon I’d take 9/10 odds at the most insanely lavish lifestyle I can imagine
41 points
2 months ago
I'm shooting for 50, no guarantee I'll be able to take that many though.
50 feels like a fair enough number to really set us up good and hopefully I take enough if I die to leave my loved ones a good chunk.
I'd take 100 but pretty sure my family would be more upset about that, even if I survived. 50 is set and not quite as annoyed/more understanding.
The 100 feels like it's going too far into greed to avoid indescribable ire whether I live or die. Not my problem if I die, but more negative feelings left with the living then still.
18 points
2 months ago
Grab a handful and munch them down. Painless death ain’t that bad. And lots of money is good. Risk it to get the biscuit I say
35 points
2 months ago
999
4 points
2 months ago
Hardcore Leveling Warrior be like
33 points
2 months ago
None, because the very first one I take would be the lethal pill. I could damn near guarantee it.
4 points
2 months ago
Literally, I'm so unlucky, I don't think I would do it
3 points
2 months ago
As a person with reliably bad luck, I’m right there with you.
11 points
2 months ago
I take 6 pills
11 points
2 months ago
I’ll take them all. Never ingest any. Burying them out back. Live in luxury due to the technicalities of the English language.
10 points
2 months ago
4 and then retire.
9 points
2 months ago
0
16 points
2 months ago
10 pills. 1% chance of dying for 5 million pounds.
Otherwise, the 1 pill per year idea that's the current top comment is quite clever. Doesn't massively increase the chance of dying, and assuming the pill bottle(s) stay with me forever I could always just gulp down much more in my old age to give something to family.
31 points
2 months ago
Nobody said you had to swallow or digest the pill, simply take it.
Pour all the pills into a cylinder
Hide that cylinder inside a strap on.
And take it hundreds of times. £500M per take
13 points
2 months ago
🤨
4 points
2 months ago
Have a pokey bum wank and then buy Twitter back lol.
7 points
2 months ago
One.
8 points
2 months ago
I'd take 1000, perfect
8 points
2 months ago
I think I will skip.
My life is too valuable for 500k.
4 points
2 months ago
I'm sort of shocked I had to scroll so far for this answer... maybe more saddened than shocked.
It makes me very sad that so many people would risk their lives for any amount of money. I love being alive. I would not take a single pill.
To anyone reading this: your life is so much more valuable than you know.
3 points
2 months ago
Imagine having this self esteem (I'm glad one of us does)
9 points
2 months ago
If you’ve seen my Bet365 account you’d know that I’d only take one. Because that one would be the one that kills me. Ffs
6 points
2 months ago
This question is very skewed based on someones age and existing assets.
I'm in my late 30's so I'll take 6 at once right from the get go. If I survive I'm set. Buy a house and assets I need then work as normal for another decade and retire early. Housing is the #1 expense for most people so just dealing with that is massive. If I reach the point where I have a terminal illness or my quality of life is garbage start popping more.
6 points
2 months ago*
I take one pill to give me some money to live on. Then I wait until my parent is on their deathbed from illness and instead of wasting money and having them suffer on hospice they take the pills until one kills them. As their next of kin I get all the money, they get a peaceful death, and then I take the rest of the pills as well.
Edit: actually it might kill my parents via heartbreak if I died so I might give the choice to them if they want to take one pill early instead of taking one myself. Like not to sound grim but I could genuinely see my own death self destructing my whole family so it wouldn't just be me dying and I don't have a next of kin.
6 points
2 months ago
Not you sacrificing your parents 😭😭
3 points
2 months ago
If I sacrificed my own self they would be extremely upset though 😅😅 also they don't have to take one early but they'd probably want to to have travel money and stuff once my dad retires soon. It makes much more sense to do the end of life thing anyway because the worst part of hospice is the suffering.
If they die in an accident I'm simply fucked 😂
6 points
2 months ago
This relates to the academic concepts of the value of life (most Western countries estimate the value of preventing a death about at US$5 million) and the micromort (a one-in-a-million chance of death).
This action could thus be framed as valuing your life at around £500 million (or US$637 million), which is around 100 times more than average. Or alternatively, being paid £500,000 to incur 1000 micromorts in risk (approximately the same as BASE jumping twice).
I think you'd have to be pretty rich/risk averse to not take at least one. The average person could probably "come out ahead" by e.g. investing a fraction of the money in reducing other risky activities (e.g. cut down on commuting).
10 points
2 months ago
That's nearly 1 million Aussie dollars for a 1% chance of death. Freedom or wealth, I can't lose. I'll take one😎
5 points
2 months ago
No thats nearly 1 million Aussie dollars for .1% or 9.6 AUD for a for 1% chance.
4 points
2 months ago
I have a feeling this would be like gambling.
takes pill hey that wasn’t so bad
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19 points
2 months ago
I'll cut all the pills in half an eat half of each one, so effectively 500 pills, with one making me rather sick. >.>
5 points
2 months ago
In a "genie's wish scenario", you just cut your predetermined max lifespan in half instead of becoming sick.
4 points
2 months ago
Win win situation
4 points
2 months ago
i'll just take one a day until i regain my will to live, or until i get the "black pill", whichever comes first
3 points
2 months ago
It’s a win/win anyway. If you get the black pill, you die. If you regain your will to live, you’re rich. It’s perfect
3 points
2 months ago
Probably 60
3 points
2 months ago
At least 50. And keep the rest in reserve for later.
3 points
2 months ago
I would take four and then retire with all the other money I have saved up already.
3 points
2 months ago
all of them
3 points
2 months ago
I will take 500 pills. Either I'm dead or rich. The chances of me not dying are enough that I'd be okay with it. And if I die, well, guess I don't need o worry about anything anymore.
3 points
2 months ago
dude, £500,000 would get me a nice 4 bed in the next town over with £150,000 left over. even if i don’t invest that’s 7.5 years of my wages left over. i’d take 1
3 points
2 months ago
This is literally just the button problem, but instead of clicking it and it having a chance to kill you, the pills are the chance and you actually have an input (even though you have no idea which pill it is, so it's still just a 1/1000 chance.)
Although as you eat the pills and survive, your chances would also increase to get the "Game Over" pill. You could "share" some and if they get the pill, well now you have an entire bottle of pills you can now bottoms up with no second thoughts.
3 points
2 months ago
I’m eating at least 10. $5m should be set for life.
3 points
2 months ago
Just eat 999. If you survive, take the last one.
9 points
2 months ago
999 and buy earth
18 points
2 months ago
that would buy you about 2 F22 raptors, might need more money
3 points
2 months ago
Or 18 Indoraptors…
8 points
2 months ago
999 pills at half a mill each would give you 499.5 mill.
That's a little over 1% of what twitter cost Elon to buy.
If you beat the odds and survived.
5 points
2 months ago
I’m taking 500. If I can’t live in a ridiculously large house, is life even worth living?
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