r/AskReddit • u/Previous-Ad3911 • 7d ago

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

10.1k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

10.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

165

u/sparkysparks666 7d ago

Yotta dollars

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

98

u/lazysquidmoose 7d ago

Aaaaand the currency is now worthless.

72

u/draconiclyyours 7d 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.

75

u/lazysquidmoose 7d ago

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

23

u/shard746 7d ago

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

19

u/betterthanamaster 6d 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.”

7

u/TonicAndDjinn 6d 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.

1

u/prof_apex 4d ago edited 4d 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.

8

u/TheDunadan29 6d ago

Hello it's the IRS.

8

u/CastlePokemetroid 6d ago

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

4

u/Gwolfski 6d 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!

2

u/Famous_Profile 6d 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