r/AskReddit 5d ago

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

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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 5d 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