Would you take $20M but in exchange be 85 tomorrow?

[LordFall]

Quite a deep question by Jordan Peterson in his success miniseries, let’s you reflect on the wealth that is youth. I think most people under maybe 60 wouldn’t take that trade. 
 

I feel like a lot of us on here are young and broke but here’s a lesson we can appreciate that we’re worth over 8 figures in terms of life potential and pleasure left to experience. 

Edited April 19 by LordFall

[integral]

Well you can take the money and give it to your family, self-sacrifice

[Yimpa]

3 minutes ago, integral said:

Well you can take the money and give it to your family, self-sacrifice

They would easily corrupt it and use it for selfish desires.

[LordFall]

5 minutes ago, integral said:

Well you can take the money and give it to your family, self-sacrifice

Also what makes you think you can’t make more than $20M if you worked for the 40+ years that this trade would take from you? 

[integral]

1 minute ago, Yimpa said:

They would easily corrupt it and use it for selfish desires.

Use a crypto wallet that only dispenses a small amount to each person each month. Now they have no control and only receive small payments for life.

Or harvest there stem cells and make your self young again. 😁

[integral]

@LordFall I probably wouldn't take the trade unless I had a terminal illness or I was ready to die from suffering of a Incurable disease

Generally to make that kind of money you need to be healthy

[gambler]

Yes. I’m tired of living in all honesty. I don’t even care about the money. 

Edited April 19 by gambler

[Jacko]

Reminds me of that Adam Sandler movie, Click

[LordFall]

@Jacko yeah that was a surprisingly deep movie, I forgot about it and I’ve been thinking lately that my life was boring and I wanna skip to the good parts lol 
 

@gambler can I ask how come? 

[Yimpa]

Abraham was MURDERED!

[Leo Gura]

I have a deeper puzzle for you:

You can have $20M but you turn into Jordan Peterson.

Do you take it?

Lets you reflect on the value of not being Jordan Peterson

Edited April 20 by Leo Gura

[MarkKol]

I'm actually pretty thrilled about life and the future, I want to keep traveling the world, and meet different people. There's so much I haven't done. I don't believe in self-sacrifice, I don't know if it's narcissism or nonduality, but I would never severely handicap my life for someone else.

It's quite a shallow question IMO, get 20 million government points and miss 80% of your life. You'll barely be able to walk at 85.

3 hours ago, gambler said:

Yes. I’m tired of living in all honesty. I don’t even care about the money. 

I don't know how you can think this way

Edited April 20 by MarkKol

[Willie]

I’d take it.

[Jacko]

@Willie Are you 84 y.o Willie? 

[samijiben]

Lol, this is funny. I was just contemplating today about the Value of Money

What is the value of 5 Dollars?: the Million Dollar Question...

Obviously, money aint worth shite independent of our collective consensus, value-making, blah blah blah — it's an illusion, isn't it?

But intellectually understanding that is ALSO not worth shite if, when push comes to shove, and u drop $400 cash info the fucking ocean that u just made after slinging fish in the rain, or — somehow worse — you lose your LIFE SAVINGS bc of a market crash thing whayever, and YOU GET UPSET ABT IT!

So, you have only transcended the illusion of money (which is a parriculary nasty bastard of an illusion) if u truly dont care or differentiate between the value of $5 and $92828×8×9×88 dollars...

REALLY understanding this illusion would restore your dignity & make u infinitely aware of the reality that u are not only worth more than 80 million dollars, bur all the gdp of nations combined.

That is because money is worth just as much as the wart on my fat toe that im looking at right now

Prove me wrong!

 

 

[Terell Kirby]

The epistemological costs certainly outweighs the material gains of 20Ms

[Willie]

1 hour ago, Jacko said:

@Willie Are you 84 y.o Willie? 

Not yet.

[WikiRando]

I would not do it because I am already young and financially free.

Knowing what I know now I would not become JP either, because the things I know that JP doesn't (God, Love) are worth more than $20m or becoming a public intellectual.

Money is nice for security, but it is also such a trap. Some people will get 20m and suffer more, because they will get new richer friends, up their lifestyle, and start trying to keep up with the joneses. And that's just another endless treadmill of suffering that your $20m led you to. 

 

Edited April 20 by WikiRando

[Leo Gura]

An even deeper puzzle for you:

You can have $20M but you turn into me.

Do you take it?

If you do, you get chronic never-ending health problems.

Edited April 20 by Leo Gura

[integral]

@Leo Gura I take the 20 million and hire team to work with me for the next 10 years to solve the problem?

But Only people who have had a chronic health problem can fathom this level of suffering.

People have no concept of how ridiculous suffering gets

Only a fool would take this. 😅

but bonus, you get TRUTH 

Edited April 20 by integral