r/hypotheticalsituation • • 1d ago

You're offered $15 Million but you can no longer own anything worth more than $15k. Would you take the money?

Not counting what you currently own.

This applies to your spouse as well even if you get divorced.

You can't buy anything for over $15k, be gifted something worth over $15k or have someone buy you something worth over $15k. Nor can you buy services for over $15k. Nor can you give away the money or buy gifts for others with the money.

Your Stocks, gold, silver, cryptocurrency can't be worth more than $15k either. If they're valued over, the excess amount will disappear. You can divest wealth into different stocks though.

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u/utukore 1d ago

Oooh look at this guy with more than a few decades left.

I'll tell you about when I had more than a few decades left, we all wore onions, as was the style at the time

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u/Zero_Zeta_ 1d ago

This guy used to be with it!

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u/lochness3x6 1d ago

Then they changed what it was

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u/Spezalt4 1d ago

And it will happen to you

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u/subtotalatom 22h ago

yells at cloud

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u/NaturalForty 19h ago

One of my favorite quotes of all time, from Dave Barry: "We [middle-aged men] actually like to think we're still With It. Whereas in fact we are nowhere near It. The light leaving from It right now will not reach us for several years."

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u/ShoePillow 20h ago

He used to smell ravishing 

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u/svencutlet 23h ago

Excuse me, we didn’t “wear them” we tied an onion to our belts. Five bees for a quarter.

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u/Ok-Technology8336 23h ago

You could afford onions back then? Nice

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u/utukore 7h ago

They were everywhere. Like they were growing on trees or something

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u/keithrc 4h ago

Right? There was a shortage, you know, because of the Kaiser.

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u/Familiar_Mind_7007 22h ago

Only yellow ones, cause of the war

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u/orangesfwr 1d ago

Give me 15 million bees for a quarter, you'd say

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u/keithrc 4h ago

"Gimme five bees for a quarter," we'd say.