A button appears before you.

-Tal

If you press the button! You will receive 100 billion dollars, not a penny less than Dr. Evil demanded. HOWEVER! You cannot purchase anything that has a market value greater than $200. Do you press it?

Raijin Quickfoot

Yes

Sure.

Misread it but still


Sure

Lucedes

Yes

can i pay rent in installments or am i now living in a nightly motel

spono

Yes

With that kind of money I could destroy the economy so that nothing costs more than 200

I assume

I ain't no economist

Magell

Yes

I'm not a man of fancy taste, plus I already own a house and car

-Tal

Lucedes wrote: »

can i pay rent in installments or am i now living in a nightly motel

i assume it is possible to negotiate some kind of payment plan with a landlord... but you might have to negotiate a payment plan with a lawyer first

Raijin Quickfoot

Yes

What if you just devalue something but then give the seller a bonus?

DarkPrimus

Yes

You can get some really good food for less than $200.

-Tal

Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »

What if you just devalue something but then give the seller a bonus?

hm... this is too loopholey for my stamp of approval...

Kanden

Yes

You put a button in front of me I'm pressing it, don't even need the rest of the rules

The Lovely Bastard

Yes

gonna live in a hotel

JayKaos

Yes

Create a parallel economy by buying large amounts of the most fungible $200 item and then trading them for whatever I need. Accidentally destroy the market value of that item, pick new item. Continue until either all my money is gone or all money is worthless.

Kadith

Yes

i've already made all the big purchases so i can just make payments

just gonna have to get creative to finish some of the home renovations but most things are individually less than $200

Endless_Serpents

Yes

1. Share money with my family.
2. They buy things for me because they are good.
3. I don’t need a third thing I’m set.

Rhesus Positive

Yes

I have contacts in the Shares and Assets Valuation team of HMRC; I'm sure I could bribe them to value some stuff at $200; I buy it then exchange it for stuff I want

Like how crooks value art at higher than it is so they can donate it for tax write-offs

Maybe manipulate the foreign exchange market so one dollar becomes worth five thousand sterling

-Tal

lotta loopholes going on... it seems we are a loopholes-type community...

Slym

Yes

what happens if there is hyperinflation and the price of a loaf of bread goes up to $300?

-Tal

SLyM wrote: »

what happens if there is hyperinflation and the price of a loaf of bread goes up to $300?

a very good question... a rich line of inquiry...

Raijin Quickfoot

Yes

Go to another country where $200 is a lot more money

KalTorak

Giving money away is free.

or wait. not free. the opposite of free.

but it's unrestricted.

I'm hammering the button like it's a QTE.

Garthor

Yes

I didn't read the prompt

I just like pressing buttons

Houk

Can I not purchase things greater than $200 with that money or with any money?

If I can keep working, pay my bills and daily needs costs with my billions, and save my working income for travel, buying a house, paying for health care or car repairs, etc. then sure

If I can never pay for another $200+ thing again without setting up so many loopholes that the spirit of the question is lost then nah I'm good

spono

Yes

-Tal wrote: »

lotta loopholes going on... it seems we are a loopholes-type community...

We are a buttholes-type community

Gyral

Yes

Gonna make my next car purchase for 30-year financing.

Milski

No

Not being able to buy anything worth $200 or more, barring giant loopholes to the spirit of the question, seems pretty bad. No property, vehicles of any kind besides the cheapest bikes, furniture, mattresses, modern phones, anything that can run videogames, rent payments, (arguably) electric bills... seems like a pretty rough catch

ChicoBlue

I'd ask button for more wishes.

Eddy

Yes

You ever ask your button for other buttons?

Captain Dream

Yes

My assumption was that I could still buy things in excess of $200 with funds that did not come from the $100 billion pool, but I could be wrong.

Eddy

Yes

Hmm I'm a little torn on healthcare but I would happily die knowing that I had a $100B stockpile to donate to causes and people

I'd also make a televised speech like Richard Nixon did for Checkers about how I wouldn't give up my Steam Deck

Uriel

No

I don't want a hundred billion dollars that's too much responsibility

Because money is power and with great power comes great responsibility

Or so says Uncle Ben

Madican

Wonder how much medical debt I could buy up in $200 chunks and then nullify each one. They seem to sell that shit on the cheap.

ph blake

Yes

You just nitpick around the word "purchase" and you're fine I think

reVerse

Yes

I mean, all you gotta do is find one person who will cooperate. Then you just buy that person a bunch of $200 stuff that they can sell, and in exchange they'll pay for whatever bigger needs you have. Honestly, you can get them double or triple the worth for their troubles, 100 billion is an infinite amount of money. Your rent's $4k? Get that person $12k worth of shit to pay it, what do you care, infinite money.

Mysst

Yes

I buy the means of production for every food and consumer good. now I can take what I need at will

discrider

Yes

I mean
I could just buy everyone food and clothing and such.
And then work out how building communities based on the mutual exchange of goods works, if I do need a phone/car/house etc.

And then probably something something small fraction into venture capital/speculation (buying all the shares that are less than $200/piece) to keep spending money forever.
Although I doubt I could spend $100 billion so that may not be necessary.

Tef

Yes

Literally the only thing that I can see as a problem is I would like to travel to see friends and family, but given enough time and not needing to work a grinding full time job, I would figure it out

discrider

Yes

I can't imagine myself traveling far enough that I couldn't get by on sub-$200 tickets.
My wife, on the other hand, would need to exceed that to visit her family.. so she'd have to buy those.

I think the big thing is, if I can survive on temp accommodation, and can buy my shoes one at a time, what would I do if I'm not working?
And I think that's speculatively work for free, fixing stuff for people, whilst self-employed?

...
Ah
Medical bills would blow the budget entirely though
... And that's when I entered the medical insurance industry.

Quetzi

Can I earn money in other ways and spend that money on purchases larger than $200?

Like, I'm sequestering the money I earn at my job for spending on expensive things, while anything under $200 gets thrown on the Dr. Evil debit card

SirToasty

Yes

You could do some billionaire bullshit finances tricks and just like get your shell company to buy it or whatever

SirToasty

Yes

I mean you'd have to report to the oil rig of course

Gyral

Yes

Yeah you could do like all the other billionaires and get other people to "give" you the things that are costly.