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

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

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u/sparkysparks666 7d ago

Yotta dollars

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

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u/lazysquidmoose 7d ago

Aaaaand the currency is now worthless.

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u/Supersnazz 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/Supersnazz 6d ago

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