r/AskReddit 5d ago

You can have 5000 of anything that starts with Y. What do you choose?

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u/sparkysparks666 5d ago

Yotta dollars

(Yotta is 10^24, so one million million million million)

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u/lazysquidmoose 5d ago

Aaaaand the currency is now worthless.

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u/draconiclyyours 5d ago

Only if you dump all it into the economy at once. You could be sitting on 1 trillion times that much money, as long as you’re not spending it on vast amounts of shit it’s not gonna drive the cost of anything up.

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u/lazysquidmoose 5d ago

Addendum “aaaaand you gotta make sure nobody knows you have the money.”

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u/shard746 5d ago

If anyone finds out, I’ll just pay them off.

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u/betterthanamaster 5d ago

“How did you get this money?”

“Oh, it’s the weirdest thing. A Reddit post! Now here’s $5M so you never need to bother me again.”

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u/TonicAndDjinn 4d ago

A 1USD bill has mass of approximately 1 gram, so the money would be around 5 Rg (which is 5000 Yg). The Earth, meanwhile, is slightly less than 6 Rg. Receiving 5 Rg of money will have cataclysmic effects for the Earth's orbit, rotation, tides, and so on. It will be very hard to keep secret, assuming anyone survives.

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u/prof_apex 2d ago edited 2d ago

get it in hundreds then.

edit: that's sill a lot, I guess. But it's better.
There is technically a $10,000 bill, but good luck spending that. Especially without getting noticed..

maybe gold? but that's like 1e16 tons, so maybe not.

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u/TheDunadan29 4d ago

Hello it's the IRS.

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u/CastlePokemetroid 4d ago

I imagined an IRS agent showing up with a rusty pipe demanding to pay their taxes or they'll take their knee caps

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u/Gwolfski 4d ago

Assuming a flat 20% tax , that would be 2e+23 $ in tax, which would probably break whatever ancient computer system is in use. So, no taxes!

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u/Famous_Profile 4d ago

Fractional reserve banking is a thing. Even if you keep it in a regular savings account it will still destroy the economy, just take take a bit longer.

You need to find a way to store literal mountains of paper cash

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u/RoguePlanetArt 5d ago

MORE worthless. FIFY.

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u/Supersnazz 4d ago

Only if they spend truly massive amounts of it.

They could probably spend 10 billion USD or so, before there would be any significant inflationary impact.

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u/kilowhom 4d ago

Of course, you might attract the attention of some curious government agencies much earlier than that.

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u/Supersnazz 4d ago

The situation assumes that you are legally allowed to have the 5000 yottadollars, so they government can't do anything.

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u/MikeGolfsPoorly 5d ago

That's a yotta dough!

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u/parsellsx 5d ago

I was gunning for the yotta- hack too, was gonna go with yottajoules of energy

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u/betterthanamaster 5d ago

Years of interest still has this beat. That would be 1085 assuming you start with $1.

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u/Reasonable-Mischief 4d ago

Only if we assume there will still be banks in 7024 A.D.

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u/betterthanamaster 4d ago

It doesn’t matter. This is 5000 years worth of compounding interest right now…

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u/EmergencyTimeShift 5d ago

Could you even store this money in the highest bills?

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u/The--Bag 5d ago

According to google the highest denomination note in use is $100 with a volume of 0.06890922 cubic inches.

5000x1024 = 5x1027

5x1027 x 0.06890922 = 3.445461x1026.

3.445461x1026 is 5.64x1021 m3 which is 5.21 x the volume of the earth.

So probably not.

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u/jasonrubik 4d ago

Not with that attitude. 5000 yotta dollars and you can easily afford to store your currency off world

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u/Owl_plantain 4d ago

Build another moon with it. Or put it at a LaGrange point. Put it at all of the LaGrange points

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u/jasonrubik 4d ago

If you fill all of the Lagrange points with too much mass then they cease to exist. The math will no longer work out in your favor

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u/Kalopsiate 4d ago

I was going to say 5000 yottagrams of gold before I realized that would be basically the mass of the earth in gold.

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u/sage2791 4d ago

Yotta picograms of gold. Which is 1 million metric tons.

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u/Owl_plantain 4d ago

You’re getting too reasonable. Stop it!

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u/Hungry-Frozen2023 4d ago

I wonder what the taxes are gonna be on that? 🤔

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u/squirrel-lee-fan 4d ago

Make it in bitcoin

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u/otter5 4d ago

no you get 5000 dollars... adding units and prefixes are BS anwers