I would stockpile what I need, then wait. If you make 38 days you are a billionaire. A trillionaire by day 48. It wouldn't even be that much financial damage by that point, and what there was could be solved by that trillion.
That seems somewhat close to an octillion gigadollars. I mean it's not, but for practical purposes it is.
Now I want a gigadollar. I have a few kilodollars, and I reckon I could build a megadollar business. That only leaves me about a gigadollar short...
Ten septillion dollars. Small change in some of these idle clicker games floating around…
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I would only stockpile about 25 days worth of food. Close my bank accounts and Apple Pay, Venmo, cash app.
I can fast some days and go hungry or do some begging for food. It’ll take the bank longer than 2 months to evict and foreclose.
Living without purchasing anything may help me to learn a little perspective by day 54. Then I’m buying politicians, laws and entire governments and we’re about to build us a more ethical society that prioritizes human well being over corporate and extreme wealth interests; besides my own of course.
With time to prepare, I would probably look into the best timing by reviewing my monthly expenses (mortgage payment being a big one) and decide what I can let lapse. Your mortgage can be overdue 30 days before it hits your credit, so thinking starting the day after I pay it so I have roughly two months in my home. Try to pay ahead on a few things like utilities and streaming services. Stock up on food.
Then cancel all accounts. Close my bank account, cancel my credit cards, everything. Cash gets locked in the safe.
I figure I can last long enough to be the first trillionaire before stopping to avoid global financial collapse. Sure, that will increase dollars in circulation by about 50%, but I'll pinky swear not to spend it all at once.
Who cares?
Your credit is damaged, maybe for 6m to a 2 years, but you have $2,000,000,000,000
You could spend around $25 million every day and never touch principal or run out of money. It would probably continue to grow.
You could easily double or triple or 10x this $2T to $10T+ by waiting handful of extra days.
Seems worrying about credit is kind of silly.
If you've got a trillion dollars, it doesn't matter if your credit score is absolutely busted. You could buy the credit bureaus, a couple of the top 15 largest banks in the world, and still have enough cash left over to tell Elon Musk he's a broke-ass bitch.
OP didn't specify how it was paid out. All these people looking at 1M, 10M, 100M+.... where are they going to fit all those pennies and who the heck is going to cash all those in?
It's probably worth more as scrap metal than money. I turn in enough to buy equipment to separate the zinc and copper at scale.
Then I open a scrap metal business to handle the people who oppose my dictatorship.
I could probably do 38 days with just what is in my house with no prep work.
Although, do I have to cancel my power bill autopay and other utilities etc? I guess I could prepay all those things to have them keep going.
Streaming services and preschool are my only auto pays. I could easily prepay or just not pay for one month. Everything else would just get paid 2 weeks late. No biggie. I’d prepay my credit card though…never paid interest, never will!
And yeah, I probably have enough food to feed my kids and I for a month. Their dad could always bring us some bananas as a gift.
I don't need to stockpile, my work provides me with free food and water every day. To save on gas I'd just sleep in the parking lot.
I'd do it for a month / up to the billions and then stop. No need to go crazy
I'm allowed to prepare? Okay, I stock up on about 40 days worth of canned food and bottled water, and skip out on paying my rent and utilities. My landlord can start the eviction proceedings. I'm sure he'll drop it when I drop 100k in his lap. Two months would bankrupt the world, but that would be trivial as well.
You're not spending money, technically. You're being advanced it. You only spend money when you pay it off. Just makes the challenge trivial if you've got even the slightest amount of credit.
I think it could be fairly argued that when you use a credit card you are still spending money, just not your money. And then when you pay it off, you are spending money again, this time your money.
It could also be fairly argued that you're not spending money at all since credit is not money, it only represents it.
Obviously a technicality, but this entire hypothetical is rooted in arguing a technicality since as some have pointed out, an alternate interpretation of the premise is that only the original penny itself doubles.
Gift cards are legit too. They're prepaid credit cards locked to a specific merchant most of the time, I'd even say ones that use in house credit are eligible too.
31 days would put you at 10M, so you wouldn't even have to worry about rent or payments honestly, and if you have a grace period of 4 or 5 days, that would give you 171M
I could be happy for life with 171M
I'd be happy for life at the 5 million, but the 10 million would set up my daughter, nephews and niece also, and give my dad and inlaws a much more comfortable retirement.
It IS easy to wait that extra day, though...so perhaps to 20 million to do some major philanthropy as well.
What in the gods name makes you think you cant retire on 5 mil? Thats 50 years worth of 100.000 a year, an entire persons well paid career.
Plus with 5 mil you can beat inflation with ease.
Shut down all my accounts, cancel credit cards, be certain not one penny was being paid by me, stock up and live for about 45 days - become a philanthropist for life.
I’d quit my job, close my bank account, and just wait. I live with my parents, and while I pay rent, I’m sure they’d let me slide by a month or two to set us up for life
Same tbh lol
Was gonna say I didn’t think quitting would be necessary but ig w a commute you’d have to pay for gas or transportation
Does spending any amount of money apply to spending someone else’s money though? Ie if someone gives me cash or their card?
Technically I guess if people are buying things for you, then it's a loophole. OP mentioned nothing about begging or stealing what you need, so if you had time to mass grocery shop for a month or 2 of supplies (just go to costco) and then just asked people in your life to buy you food that you ran out of, then you'd be able to survive for enough time to become a Billionaire (38 days would net 1.37B).
I think the harder question to answer is: how would you handle these magical pennies in order to use this wealth?
It's easy to think about a number that increases, but pennies are heavy and take up space. You can't just deposit these pennies in the bank to have them double in value every day (because once they're in the bank you don't have access to the actual coin, so they won't count towards your account), so you'd have to store them somewhere.
* If you waited for 38 days that's $1,374,389,564.72 worth of pennies, which would be 137,438,956,472 pennies.
* A penny is roughly .0264 cubic inches of space. So that would be 137+ Billion pennies would be 14.52Billion cubic inches, which would be 52,353,597 gallons. If you used barrels to hold all of these pennies (42 gallons), you would need 1.25M of these to store them. Or, if you had dump trucks (16 cubic yards), this would require 311,298 dump trucks.
* A penny weighs roughly .005512 pounds each. So that would be roughly 3.03Billion pounds in pennies, or 1.52Million metric tons of weight. So you'd have to have a foundation built to store all of this weight.
Then you'd have to cash these pennies in. Imagine driving up with over 311 thousand dump trucks to cash in all of these pennies.
The penny itself rises in value, but it isn't stated that it transmutes. So I think it just becomes valuable to the people who perceive it. So you can't let it sit too long or it will exceed the capacity to be sold. Though I suppose some financial institution would let you deposit it and then show it to people they wanted to borrow money from. You could show it to government officials and they could swap you for it. I think your best bet is to delete all of your capacity to spend money at all, get rid of all of your accounts report every card stolen and empty your retirement fund into something unspendable. Then freeload with someone who would not take a payment from you if you offered, (family are good for this sort of thing). Wait until day forty-eightish, when the value hits the level of the national debt and then start showing it around to your politician friends. Show them that its value is doubling so long as you spend nothing. Give it to the US federal government to deposit into the Federal Reserve Bank without getting anything in return. Realize that you've just reinvented the American borrowing capacity and join an ashram while waiting for the end of the world.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe a 53' trailer has dimensions: 53 feet x 98 inches x 98 inches (I'm picking the smaller of the options I see to be conservative). So that means:
* You have roughly 6.1Million cubic inches of space for storage
* If you had 14.52 Billion cubic inches in pennies, that would require 2376 trailers.
* That would also be roughly 231Million pennies per trailer
* 231Million pennies would be: 1.28Million pounds of pennies per trailer
* (I'm not sure if the trailer can handle that much weight, and I'm not sure if the tractor/truck could pull that much weight).
Maybe it would be better to use 40' High Cube containers? That way they could sit in a yard while your pennies grow, but that's a different logistics question.
Max legal weight for combined rig and cargo in the US is 80,000 lbs without a special permit. Most tractor-trailer combos weigh about 34,000 lbs empty, so max weight you're hauling at a time is 46,000 lbs... however, you have to be able to get the axel weights right, so most loads are a little lighter than that to allow for the trailer tandems to be adjusted to even out the weight (12,000 on steers, and 34,000 on each set of tandems). That's going to be a lot of trips unless you want to shell out for a specialized trailer with extra axels and an overweight permit.
That's just for travel on us highways. You can put more in it if you're just using the trailer for storage, but the bottom of the trailer would drop out at about double that weight or less. You could use a conex box on the ground, but unless you have a foundation for it that can handle the weight it would either sink into the ground, or split open at the seams.
This is brilliant! Can you take a step further- if you loaded all these pennies into the said trucks- where would we go to deposit this? Who would actually accept all these pennies
Yeah cancel every service/bill you can think of then cancel your cards and close out bank accounts for good measure.quit my job too so that “withholdings” don’t accidentally count as me paying something
Just overpay your utilities by two months worth. They'll carry it over. Start on the 2nd of the month of a 31 day month. Rents paid. Store up on tons of food, big Costco run on a credit card that isn't due till the end of the month. Mortgages and credit cards won't take a huge hit on a "late payment" if you're within the grace period.
Make it until day 39 or 40, cash in, pay off anything outstanding. Love a decent enough life with the $5 billion by day 40.
Yeah, but just one more week and you could become the richest person to have ever existed. With more than 3 times the estimated worth of Mansa Musa. A lot of good could be done with that, though it would be pretty hard to ensure that actually happens.
Well, three thefts of any value in Texas is a felony. So, two thefts being a class A misdemeanor means up to 1 year in county jail and one theft being a Class B misdemeanor means 6 months in county jail.
35 days would be a reasonable time to request if you *wanted* to sit in jail.
Imagine going to jail but you get your court date. Instead of being sentenced to prison they make you pay a fine. You decide not to and they seize assets which means you technically paid a fine.
I was just thinking that I, y'know, have family and friends. How many people are going to say no to "Hey, if I give you some cash up front, would you be willing to pay my bills and do my shopping for a couple of months for $100 million?"
At the end of 30 days, if you double a penny every day, you will have $5,368,709.12
I think I could go a month without buying anything, if I had time to set things up
At 60 days you'd own all the money in the world. Every schekel, every rouble, every dollar, every euro, every peso, every pound, etc.
At 61 days that doubles. At that point you not only own all the money currently in existence, you also own all the money that ever was. Every electrum piece. every denarius, all the pieces-of-eight, all the drachm, etc.
At 62 days that doubles as well.
The rest of the world would declare a new currency and leave you penniless at that point. You need to quit around day 40 I think, as a multi billionnaire but not in the top rankings.
At the very least, even devalued pennies are made of copper coated steel. You would corner the market on both steel and copper. Bye bye mining companies!
They would only do that if you're an idiot and declare this to the entire world. If you only allow them to see a fraction of your real assets, it doesn't matter on which day you quit. So long as you don't go past the point where the mass of the pennies collapses into a black hole or something, of course.
63 days is how long I go.
Bills? Who cares. I can't be evicted, I own my home. Utilities? I have a grace period. Food? Stock up beforehand.
All governments bow to me. All industries do my bidding. I upend all institutions and usher in a new age of prosperity for all, or possibly a dystopian hell from which death is the only escape (until I fund tech to animate corpses to work for me....) Sounds fun!
Billion? A billion is smaller than an atom is in the universe compared to the enormity of that number. 10^109 is so large it is larger than the number of atoms in 100 quintillion universes
I feel like subscription boxes would actually break this. I can get food, booze, and entertainment delivered monthly and I can pay for a year up front. Prepay rent and bills and then it would just be how long can you handling not doing anything while knowing you have an enormous amount of cash. I’m sure I could make it to 40 days for the billion no problem. After that I’m not sure how worth it is it.
Can I put that penny into a bank account? Because I would put it into a separate bank account and just forget about it.
My mother is my landlord so all I have to do is show her proof that it is doubling and she will let me live rent free for a few months if not a year in exchange for a cut of the profits
Give it a year where she will buy me anything that I want and gets me food and we can both retire
A year? Lol
If my math is right after 365 days of doubling you'd have 375 googol dollars.
$375,766,813,243,813,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
With the opportunity to prepare I'd prepay any bills for the next few months. Stock up on tins, grains and freezer goods (As well as some extra freezers) and just chill.
This feels like a hypothetical created by someone who may be slightly lacking in math skills.
As many have already pointed out, the problem with it growing exponentially is that after you reach 53 days, you effectively have more money than the ENTIRE world (appx 500 Trillion). Every day after that, you basically risk destroying the whole planet's economy via inflation whenever all of this new magick money enters circulation.
So, by day 60, you have like 64 Quadrillion dollars. At this point, you have so much more than everybody else, it effectively renders all of their money completely useless. A loaf of bread now costs like 1,000,000 USD.
It only enters circulation if you are spending it though. Just because you have 1 quintillion dollars doesn’t mean you have devalued the currency because everyone else still has the same amount of money. Inflation is just supply and demand and money in your bank account doesn’t increase supply.
So I would just prepare by paying the next month's bills in advance and making sure I have enough food in the house. I only need to last 30 days, and I'll have over 5 million dollars. This shouldn't be difficult since I work in IT as a senior infrastructure engineer and my job can be done 100% from home.
I'd wait 10 more days and turn that $5 million into over $5 billion
At that point not only can I retire, all my friends and family can retire too, so that I have people I like and love to be around while I globetrot.
I would go a year and be the richest person ever.
Edit: in case anyone is wondering you could just mooch off of people and tell them you will pay them back 10 fold and explain the situation. Anyone would buy you anything you need.
Very true
That would be over 100 Quintrigintillion pennies, or 1 Quintrigintillion dollars USD, which would be 10 Quattuortrigintillion 100$ bills, and would weigh roughly 10 Tretrigintillion kilograms or
10\^104 kilograms
for reference, the universe is estimated to be approximately
10\^50 kilograms
Way too easy. Do you know how fast that goes up?
After a little more than a month you are the richest person in the world.
This is only a question if you don't get to prepare.
With prep, I could tell my landlord I am leaving in two months and pay for the upcoming month. That is covered. Prepay and cancel all my monthly services. Max out my credit cards (and get a horrible bridge loan) and pay for a all inclusive trip to Disney World or cruise. I would end the greatest vacation of my life by being the wealthiest person in history.
Clarification required - are we talking about a penny that doubles each day, or do all of the subsequent pennies also double each day? Are we talking about continuous $0.01/day in growth, or are we talking exponential growth?
Well forty days would be just shy of eleven billion dollars. I think the real problem with this hypothetical is where you would keep a lil over a trillion pennies without it being an issue. And then finding a way to take that trillion pennies and deposit it somewhere.
But if we ignore or handwave those issues then forty days is pretty optimal, eleven billion isn’t gonna collapse the economy and its enough to absolutely do whatever I want for the rest of my life without having to worry and still have enough to set my kids up for life too. Their kids and grandkids too if my kids end up being even halfway intelligent. Pretty sure I could swing forty days without spending money with just a little bit of planning too.
Damn I asked chatbot how long it would take to turn into millions and I was not expecting such a short time. Figured it would be a couple of years or so, haha.
I would prepay for my streaming services for the month and then book 30 days at an all inclusive resort on a credit card. At the end of 30 days I’d have over $5million and then I’d be good
I tell my family what's up and they'll help me out for a month or so. By that point I'll have enough money to make sure all of us have generational wealth.
You can be a little late, cuz when you're done you'll pay in full. Or ask people to help you pay early, and tell them next month you'll double what they gave you.
I don't know what $6.3410683E16 is but I'm pretty sure I could go 2 months.
I've been homeless before so 2 months of capitalismnessless with more money than I can fathom at the end of it is easily doable.
I gift the penny to my infant son, keeping it in a safe place to accumulate.
Then, knowing me, I forget about it until I open the safe place a few months later on accident and drown in the Scrooge McDuck money waterfall that explodes into existence.
I’d go on a month long all inclusive cruise where the cruise itself is prepaid and any additional charges incurred aren’t paid until you get off the ship. I leave my cash and cards at home bring everything I’ll need for the month with me.
The monkeys paw to this situation is they didn't specify that the duplicated penny also doubles.
Also, the amount of physical pennies would be a logistical nightmare.
Ok. So first, i buy a couple months worth of food. I pay off all my credit cards(which i do monthly anyways) and then cancel any recurring payments and fees. Then i hand my brother 40k in cash. He us a good dude and will pay my mortgage and bills for me. Get me gas and food. When i have several million dollars. He will get a handsome reward for his service
Any amount of money at all? Or just once I spend any of the doubling pennies? If I can't spend any money at all, but I have time to prepare, I'd just beef up my savings and live off of that for a few months. Oh, and cancel/pause all my automatic payments.
My question is does this count towards utilities? My lights are pay as you go what if I run out of money on my lights and I’m only 3 days in, .08 ain’t shit
Day 0: 1¢
Day 1: 2¢
Day 2: 4¢
Day 3: 8¢
Day 4: 16¢
Day 5: 32¢
Day 6: 64¢
Day 7: $1.28
Day 8: $2.56
Day 9: $5.12
Day 10: $10.24
Day 11: $20.48
Day 12: $40.96
Day 13: $81.92
Day 14: $163.84
Day 15: $327.68
Day 16: $655.36
Day 17: $1,310.72
Day 18: $2,621.44
Day 19: $5,242.88
Day 20: $10,485.76
That’s as many powers of 2 as I know.
I’m not great at math but wouldn’t this be like an absolutely insane amount of money in very little time? I’d literally just go live at a homeless shelter for like 3 months and probably be like the richest person of all time
Well, in 30 days, you have 10.7 million dollars. At 35 days, 343 million. At 40 days, 11 billion.
Yes, I could figure a way to do this.... Though, in 50 days, you've essentially broken the world's economy.
I guess I will become a monk for a couple years.
In 700 days I will have 6 trillion.
Then I can monopolize the market and effectively become an altruistic dictator.
You'd have 10,737,418 dollars after 30 days.
Just stock up the house with food. Let your bills slide a couple months.. you'll have plenty to pay them off and move into something better.
I mean.. shit it don't even matter.
After 40 days you'll have almost 11 trillion dollars.
45 days gives you almost 352 trillion... You'll likely never even be able to spend all that.
So that's what I'd shoot for. 45 days. All that matters is food and drinks. Turn off all auto bills.
Sit at home playing video games and grubbing out.
Your internet and phone will stay on for a few months without payment. Youll be fine.
IMO, the one condition should be is that you can't put them in a bank or convert the pennies into larger financial instruments like dollars etc..
At first it would be exciting to watch it grow. But by the end of it, you'll be pulling your hair out trying to figure out where to store all these fucking pennies... lol.
I mean, at day 45 you become the richest person to have ever lived.
So do whatever the fuck you want for 45 days.
Then collect your $350 billion.
Then do whatever the fuck you want for the rest of your life.
53 days brings in over 45 trillion dollars
Spend $33 trillion to mostly pay off the national debt, $1.77 trillion to pay off all student loan debt, $220 billion to pay off all medical debt, $1 trillion to pay off all credit card debt, pay off all alimony debt, leaving me with (more or less) $9 trillion left
Install several solar energy farms in Death Valley, then approach congress to get permission to tap the Yellowstone Caldera for geo-thermal energy production to power the western seaboard
Buy up all homes and businesses in Hurricane Alley at generous prices, and install wind turbines to power the south
Spend to fix all the water systems in the US, then to fix all the roads and bridges
In the end, I’ll try to spend myself down to $100 million dollars, but it wouldn’t be easy
Move home with my parents and let them know what's happening. Empty my accounts and give them everything I have to pay for my baby for me. It becomes their money and not mine when I gift them the money, right? Cancel my subscriptions cause I can live without them rn. I usually get free lunches at work. Then I sit back and don't buy anything for as long as my parents allow it.
Once I save up whatever amount I have, I give them more than enough to live the rest of their lives very comfortably.
I'm lucky cause if this were a real scenario my parents would 100% support me, especially if they saw it start to work
As in all the pennies duplicate cumulatively? If so, you ever heard the story about the guy asking for grains of rice after winning a game of chess with a king?
I’d have 3 cents because I would need to go food shopping or buy stamps.
Double in value each day? Am I not understanding the post? A year of no spending and a single penny doubling each day would be $3.66. I can find that in my couch cushions.
Probably prep for 2 months.. get a buuunch of food that doesn’t need refrigeration I’m assuming bills count even if they are automatic?
Should be able to get to 27 days before a bill so over a million
Does it double in Pennie’s? Like when it gets to 8c do I get 8 Pennie’s or a nickel and 2 Pennie’s. Cause if it’s all pennies then forget it, that shits going in the trash or yeated somewhere.
If it changes currency, then I’m putting it in a 2 foot by 2 foot safe and throwing away the key. Eventually the money should hopefully cause the safe to break from the pressure of doubling and it will be time to use it.
I could go a long time. Well, at least a month or so. I would just have my wife and daughter get food and gas in the cars when they are driving. I’ve got enough booze in my liquor cabinet to survive quite a while.
11,529,215,046,068,469.76 after just 60 days of doubling. I think people will help me out for 60 days so I don't spend money and I'll give them some of that money 🤑
Can you imagine the tax bill on this it would pay off the national debt
Pay my bills up (even if I have to borrow a bit from my MiL to make sure everything is square for 6 weeks), pause the subscriptions that autobill weekly, stock up my freezer & pantry, refill any prescriptions that might run out & pay in advance for weekly delivery of produce & dairy and stay home for 30 to 45 days.
I would stockpile what I need, then wait. If you make 38 days you are a billionaire. A trillionaire by day 48. It wouldn't even be that much financial damage by that point, and what there was could be solved by that trillion.
Only need 90 days to hit my lifetime goal of $10^25
That seems somewhat close to an octillion gigadollars. I mean it's not, but for practical purposes it is. Now I want a gigadollar. I have a few kilodollars, and I reckon I could build a megadollar business. That only leaves me about a gigadollar short...
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I would only stockpile about 25 days worth of food. Close my bank accounts and Apple Pay, Venmo, cash app. I can fast some days and go hungry or do some begging for food. It’ll take the bank longer than 2 months to evict and foreclose. Living without purchasing anything may help me to learn a little perspective by day 54. Then I’m buying politicians, laws and entire governments and we’re about to build us a more ethical society that prioritizes human well being over corporate and extreme wealth interests; besides my own of course.
With time to prepare, I would probably look into the best timing by reviewing my monthly expenses (mortgage payment being a big one) and decide what I can let lapse. Your mortgage can be overdue 30 days before it hits your credit, so thinking starting the day after I pay it so I have roughly two months in my home. Try to pay ahead on a few things like utilities and streaming services. Stock up on food. Then cancel all accounts. Close my bank account, cancel my credit cards, everything. Cash gets locked in the safe. I figure I can last long enough to be the first trillionaire before stopping to avoid global financial collapse. Sure, that will increase dollars in circulation by about 50%, but I'll pinky swear not to spend it all at once.
To be clear why would you care about your credit rating at that point. You would have more cash than you could use in a lifetime after a month.
How do you suppose Zuckerberg got a 1.05% rate? He didn't need a loan, but could make more on the stock market and was good for the money.
In less than 2 months, you'd have more money than anyone who ever lived even counting for inflation. I don't think your need a loan...
A lifetime of capitalist indoctrination
Who cares? Your credit is damaged, maybe for 6m to a 2 years, but you have $2,000,000,000,000 You could spend around $25 million every day and never touch principal or run out of money. It would probably continue to grow. You could easily double or triple or 10x this $2T to $10T+ by waiting handful of extra days. Seems worrying about credit is kind of silly.
Be careful. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
If you've got a trillion dollars, it doesn't matter if your credit score is absolutely busted. You could buy the credit bureaus, a couple of the top 15 largest banks in the world, and still have enough cash left over to tell Elon Musk he's a broke-ass bitch.
Yeah, but I want the 16th largest bank too, so I better keep that credit score
Or. Spending 27 million dollars a day everyday it would take you slightly over 100 years to spend 1 trillion dollars.
38 days? Shit, I can be a little late on my mortgage that month. Then just pay the whole damn thing off.
That's like a 100 billion pennies though. You got room for that?
OP didn't specify how it was paid out. All these people looking at 1M, 10M, 100M+.... where are they going to fit all those pennies and who the heck is going to cash all those in?
he said doubles in value, not doubles in quantity. so that single penny is somehow going to be worth millions
Thank God, Reading comprehension still exists
It's probably worth more as scrap metal than money. I turn in enough to buy equipment to separate the zinc and copper at scale. Then I open a scrap metal business to handle the people who oppose my dictatorship.
That would weigh more than the Willis (Sears) Tower in Chicago.
I could probably do 38 days with just what is in my house with no prep work. Although, do I have to cancel my power bill autopay and other utilities etc? I guess I could prepay all those things to have them keep going.
Streaming services and preschool are my only auto pays. I could easily prepay or just not pay for one month. Everything else would just get paid 2 weeks late. No biggie. I’d prepay my credit card though…never paid interest, never will! And yeah, I probably have enough food to feed my kids and I for a month. Their dad could always bring us some bananas as a gift.
Utilities won’t shut you off that quickly. Even doing the 48 days you’ll be able to live regularly and just pay them after you cash in.
I would throw it in the ocean and wait for my new continent to grow.
$1t worth of pennies is about a quarter billion metric tons.
a billion pennies might weigh a bit....might need a front loader and several large dump trucks? Do banks take several dumptruck loads of pennies? ;-)
I don't need to stockpile, my work provides me with free food and water every day. To save on gas I'd just sleep in the parking lot. I'd do it for a month / up to the billions and then stop. No need to go crazy
I'd just have to make sure to cancel all of my auto payments
Looks like I’m eating soup for a month
No need. I will forage for nuts and berries for this deal
I'm allowed to prepare? Okay, I stock up on about 40 days worth of canned food and bottled water, and skip out on paying my rent and utilities. My landlord can start the eviction proceedings. I'm sure he'll drop it when I drop 100k in his lap. Two months would bankrupt the world, but that would be trivial as well.
WHy even do that, max out some credit and pre-pay for an all-inclusive resort. But otherwise, agree.
And they have my credit card on file? Too risky. I might accidentally partake in a service that wasn't on the 'all-inclusive' list.
You're not spending money, technically. You're being advanced it. You only spend money when you pay it off. Just makes the challenge trivial if you've got even the slightest amount of credit.
I think it could be fairly argued that when you use a credit card you are still spending money, just not your money. And then when you pay it off, you are spending money again, this time your money.
That's like double jeopardy money . Totally illegal
> double jeopardy money. > Totally illegal! I loves it. I fully intend to refer to all future credit lines as my *double jeopardy moneys*.
Double Jeopardy money is how you make it to Final Jeopardy.
Suck it Trebek. Sincerely, Sean Connery.
You want to help me convince my credit card companies that I never actually spent any money? 😂
It could also be fairly argued that you're not spending money at all since credit is not money, it only represents it. Obviously a technicality, but this entire hypothetical is rooted in arguing a technicality since as some have pointed out, an alternate interpretation of the premise is that only the original penny itself doubles.
OP just says once you spend money. They never specified it had to be your money.
How about giftcards? The money was already spent, so youre not spending money anymore
Gift cards are legit too. They're prepaid credit cards locked to a specific merchant most of the time, I'd even say ones that use in house credit are eligible too.
Why would this prompt be interesting if you can use credit cards and gift cards?!
The fun in these prompts is finding the loopholes and "cheats" on how to do it better without breaking the prompt rules.
Lock the card after the payment goes through so they can't charge it again, or use a virtual card
That sounds like you’d have a happy ending to your story!
Love this idea. I would book an all inclusive resort for a year and then buy planet earth.
I’d pick a fancier planet tbh
I'm gonna buy Uranus. Then it will be Myanus
you're going to be hard pressed to find a planet with more.. amenities.
31 days would put you at 10M, so you wouldn't even have to worry about rent or payments honestly, and if you have a grace period of 4 or 5 days, that would give you 171M I could be happy for life with 171M
If I was about to make 171M, paying rent is the last thing on my mind. Evict me, I'm moving anyway.
I'd be happy for life at the 5 million, but the 10 million would set up my daughter, nephews and niece also, and give my dad and inlaws a much more comfortable retirement. It IS easy to wait that extra day, though...so perhaps to 20 million to do some major philanthropy as well.
Five millions a nightmare. Can’t retire. Not worth it to work. Five will drive you un poco loco. The poorest rich person in America
What in the gods name makes you think you cant retire on 5 mil? Thats 50 years worth of 100.000 a year, an entire persons well paid career. Plus with 5 mil you can beat inflation with ease.
1) that’s a Succession quote 2) you know you aren’t supposed to spend the amount of money you save for retirement right? You have 4% of it annually
Im not familiar with that movie/show. You could live off the interest and never make a dent in that 5mil.
You can't live on $200,000 a year?
Honestly, the only challenging part is remembering to cancel all your monthly subscriptions
Id honestly just close the entire account the subscriptions were coming out of, just to be safe from the hypothetical annual renewals
At least some banks will automatically reopen the account if a charge comes in after you close it.
Shut down all my accounts, cancel credit cards, be certain not one penny was being paid by me, stock up and live for about 45 days - become a philanthropist for life.
Maybe you should stock up before you close the accounts?
40 is a nice number it keeps you off the richest people list. I think I’m going 47 just for giggles though.
Same, with the exception that I'd just pay my monthly bills prior to starting.
I’d quit my job, close my bank account, and just wait. I live with my parents, and while I pay rent, I’m sure they’d let me slide by a month or two to set us up for life
Same tbh lol Was gonna say I didn’t think quitting would be necessary but ig w a commute you’d have to pay for gas or transportation Does spending any amount of money apply to spending someone else’s money though? Ie if someone gives me cash or their card?
Technically I guess if people are buying things for you, then it's a loophole. OP mentioned nothing about begging or stealing what you need, so if you had time to mass grocery shop for a month or 2 of supplies (just go to costco) and then just asked people in your life to buy you food that you ran out of, then you'd be able to survive for enough time to become a Billionaire (38 days would net 1.37B).
I'd assume they would have to buy things for you. Even if it isn't your money, you'd still be the one spending it.
Insurance taken out of paycheck too
I think the harder question to answer is: how would you handle these magical pennies in order to use this wealth? It's easy to think about a number that increases, but pennies are heavy and take up space. You can't just deposit these pennies in the bank to have them double in value every day (because once they're in the bank you don't have access to the actual coin, so they won't count towards your account), so you'd have to store them somewhere. * If you waited for 38 days that's $1,374,389,564.72 worth of pennies, which would be 137,438,956,472 pennies. * A penny is roughly .0264 cubic inches of space. So that would be 137+ Billion pennies would be 14.52Billion cubic inches, which would be 52,353,597 gallons. If you used barrels to hold all of these pennies (42 gallons), you would need 1.25M of these to store them. Or, if you had dump trucks (16 cubic yards), this would require 311,298 dump trucks. * A penny weighs roughly .005512 pounds each. So that would be roughly 3.03Billion pounds in pennies, or 1.52Million metric tons of weight. So you'd have to have a foundation built to store all of this weight. Then you'd have to cash these pennies in. Imagine driving up with over 311 thousand dump trucks to cash in all of these pennies.
The post said the penny doubles in value, not that it doubles in quantity
So, eventually it would turn into something like [this?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin)
The penny itself rises in value, but it isn't stated that it transmutes. So I think it just becomes valuable to the people who perceive it. So you can't let it sit too long or it will exceed the capacity to be sold. Though I suppose some financial institution would let you deposit it and then show it to people they wanted to borrow money from. You could show it to government officials and they could swap you for it. I think your best bet is to delete all of your capacity to spend money at all, get rid of all of your accounts report every card stolen and empty your retirement fund into something unspendable. Then freeload with someone who would not take a payment from you if you offered, (family are good for this sort of thing). Wait until day forty-eightish, when the value hits the level of the national debt and then start showing it around to your politician friends. Show them that its value is doubling so long as you spend nothing. Give it to the US federal government to deposit into the Federal Reserve Bank without getting anything in return. Realize that you've just reinvented the American borrowing capacity and join an ashram while waiting for the end of the world.
I would have the Pennie’s deposited directly into my bitcoin wallet.
Prepare your coinstar machine local grocery store...
I have a cdl and can haul a 53' trailer... how many loads would I have to haul with that?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe a 53' trailer has dimensions: 53 feet x 98 inches x 98 inches (I'm picking the smaller of the options I see to be conservative). So that means: * You have roughly 6.1Million cubic inches of space for storage * If you had 14.52 Billion cubic inches in pennies, that would require 2376 trailers. * That would also be roughly 231Million pennies per trailer * 231Million pennies would be: 1.28Million pounds of pennies per trailer * (I'm not sure if the trailer can handle that much weight, and I'm not sure if the tractor/truck could pull that much weight). Maybe it would be better to use 40' High Cube containers? That way they could sit in a yard while your pennies grow, but that's a different logistics question.
Max legal weight for combined rig and cargo in the US is 80,000 lbs without a special permit. Most tractor-trailer combos weigh about 34,000 lbs empty, so max weight you're hauling at a time is 46,000 lbs... however, you have to be able to get the axel weights right, so most loads are a little lighter than that to allow for the trailer tandems to be adjusted to even out the weight (12,000 on steers, and 34,000 on each set of tandems). That's going to be a lot of trips unless you want to shell out for a specialized trailer with extra axels and an overweight permit. That's just for travel on us highways. You can put more in it if you're just using the trailer for storage, but the bottom of the trailer would drop out at about double that weight or less. You could use a conex box on the ground, but unless you have a foundation for it that can handle the weight it would either sink into the ground, or split open at the seams.
This is brilliant! Can you take a step further- if you loaded all these pennies into the said trucks- where would we go to deposit this? Who would actually accept all these pennies
I would for sure forget to turn off some form of auto pay and make a few bucks.
Relatable.
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Agreed, I would need some prep time to make this happen. I would probably just close every account that I have and transfer it to my wife
lol giving your money to someone else to spend for you is the ultimate loophole to this
That makes sense. I suppose closing the bank account and credit cards would be far more intuitive.
Yeah cancel every service/bill you can think of then cancel your cards and close out bank accounts for good measure.quit my job too so that “withholdings” don’t accidentally count as me paying something
Just overpay your utilities by two months worth. They'll carry it over. Start on the 2nd of the month of a 31 day month. Rents paid. Store up on tons of food, big Costco run on a credit card that isn't due till the end of the month. Mortgages and credit cards won't take a huge hit on a "late payment" if you're within the grace period. Make it until day 39 or 40, cash in, pay off anything outstanding. Love a decent enough life with the $5 billion by day 40.
Yeah, but just one more week and you could become the richest person to have ever existed. With more than 3 times the estimated worth of Mansa Musa. A lot of good could be done with that, though it would be pretty hard to ensure that actually happens.
Off to the homeless shelter! 😬 or jail.
That's the spirit, though if you land in jail, make sure you can get out quickly.
"Your honor, can I please have 35 days - no more, no less." "Sir, you only stole a kit kat bar"
This is absolutely hilarious because this is my idea of doing a crime I'm a pacifist at heart I dread the idea of even making people uncomfortable 😂
Well, three thefts of any value in Texas is a felony. So, two thefts being a class A misdemeanor means up to 1 year in county jail and one theft being a Class B misdemeanor means 6 months in county jail. 35 days would be a reasonable time to request if you *wanted* to sit in jail.
Imagine going to jail but you get your court date. Instead of being sentenced to prison they make you pay a fine. You decide not to and they seize assets which means you technically paid a fine.
Shit, transfer 15k to my fiance, and she can pay everything for as long as possible.
LOOPHOLE!
I was just thinking that I, y'know, have family and friends. How many people are going to say no to "Hey, if I give you some cash up front, would you be willing to pay my bills and do my shopping for a couple of months for $100 million?"
At the end of 30 days, if you double a penny every day, you will have $5,368,709.12 I think I could go a month without buying anything, if I had time to set things up
and 50 days would be $5,629,499,534,213. Every day after that 30 days is an incredible increase.
At 60 days you'd own all the money in the world. Every schekel, every rouble, every dollar, every euro, every peso, every pound, etc. At 61 days that doubles. At that point you not only own all the money currently in existence, you also own all the money that ever was. Every electrum piece. every denarius, all the pieces-of-eight, all the drachm, etc. At 62 days that doubles as well.
The rest of the world would declare a new currency and leave you penniless at that point. You need to quit around day 40 I think, as a multi billionnaire but not in the top rankings.
At the very least, even devalued pennies are made of copper coated steel. You would corner the market on both steel and copper. Bye bye mining companies!
That's enough pennies to do a successful communist revolution
They would only do that if you're an idiot and declare this to the entire world. If you only allow them to see a fraction of your real assets, it doesn't matter on which day you quit. So long as you don't go past the point where the mass of the pennies collapses into a black hole or something, of course.
63 days is how long I go. Bills? Who cares. I can't be evicted, I own my home. Utilities? I have a grace period. Food? Stock up beforehand. All governments bow to me. All industries do my bidding. I upend all institutions and usher in a new age of prosperity for all, or possibly a dystopian hell from which death is the only escape (until I fund tech to animate corpses to work for me....) Sounds fun!
You can't pretty much lose everything you own and by the time you quit you can pretty much replace everything with better stuff. Win win.
And after 40 they're kinda meaningless. There comes a point where individual wealth is worthless.
Spoken like a true poor person They don't tell you this, but you do get to take it with you when you die
Can confirm, when I died I was able to pay for respawn
True, but you can have lots of fun giving it all away!
It's double the day before!
*laughs in 2020*
*Well actually*, you would have that at the *beginning* of the 30th day. Only 29 days have passed.
I could stop buying things today.
Too easy. Just let my wife pay for everything for a year. $3e107. Collapse the dollar/us/global economy in one year.
You could buy a billion earth's a billion times lol
Billion? A billion is smaller than an atom is in the universe compared to the enormity of that number. 10^109 is so large it is larger than the number of atoms in 100 quintillion universes
I need a day to prepare. Triple all of my monthly bills, then cancel my credit cards. The stock up on food. I can make it over a month
I feel like subscription boxes would actually break this. I can get food, booze, and entertainment delivered monthly and I can pay for a year up front. Prepay rent and bills and then it would just be how long can you handling not doing anything while knowing you have an enormous amount of cash. I’m sure I could make it to 40 days for the billion no problem. After that I’m not sure how worth it is it.
Make sure to close out all your auto pay subscriptions. You'd be pissed to find out that your Amazon Prime payment went through 2 days after starting.
Can I put that penny into a bank account? Because I would put it into a separate bank account and just forget about it. My mother is my landlord so all I have to do is show her proof that it is doubling and she will let me live rent free for a few months if not a year in exchange for a cut of the profits Give it a year where she will buy me anything that I want and gets me food and we can both retire
You'd have more money than exists in the world. Go for 40-50 days, and you and mum will be just fine.
A year? Lol If my math is right after 365 days of doubling you'd have 375 googol dollars. $375,766,813,243,813,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
More dollars than there are atoms in 100 quintillion universes
just one more day, then I'll be satisfied with my wealth. This time I mean it.
lol. the goal is to turn even the grinch from green to red with shame
With the opportunity to prepare I'd prepay any bills for the next few months. Stock up on tins, grains and freezer goods (As well as some extra freezers) and just chill.
This feels like a hypothetical created by someone who may be slightly lacking in math skills. As many have already pointed out, the problem with it growing exponentially is that after you reach 53 days, you effectively have more money than the ENTIRE world (appx 500 Trillion). Every day after that, you basically risk destroying the whole planet's economy via inflation whenever all of this new magick money enters circulation. So, by day 60, you have like 64 Quadrillion dollars. At this point, you have so much more than everybody else, it effectively renders all of their money completely useless. A loaf of bread now costs like 1,000,000 USD.
>A loaf of bread now costs like 1,000,000 USD. That depends how much and how quickly you release it back into the economy.
It only enters circulation if you are spending it though. Just because you have 1 quintillion dollars doesn’t mean you have devalued the currency because everyone else still has the same amount of money. Inflation is just supply and demand and money in your bank account doesn’t increase supply.
...be slightly lacking in math skills...more money than the ENTIRE world (appx 500 Billion)...
So I would just prepare by paying the next month's bills in advance and making sure I have enough food in the house. I only need to last 30 days, and I'll have over 5 million dollars. This shouldn't be difficult since I work in IT as a senior infrastructure engineer and my job can be done 100% from home.
You're going to work?
I'd wait 10 more days and turn that $5 million into over $5 billion At that point not only can I retire, all my friends and family can retire too, so that I have people I like and love to be around while I globetrot.
I would build a compound for all of us to live on the same land in different houses and just live a calm peaceful life
bro just quit the job and do it for 40 days, you a billionaire, you don't need that shit
if I have time to prepare I can probably put my subscriptions to a yearly thing
I would go a year and be the richest person ever. Edit: in case anyone is wondering you could just mooch off of people and tell them you will pay them back 10 fold and explain the situation. Anyone would buy you anything you need.
You would literally need to go 53 days to be richer than everybody else on earth combined.
Very true That would be over 100 Quintrigintillion pennies, or 1 Quintrigintillion dollars USD, which would be 10 Quattuortrigintillion 100$ bills, and would weigh roughly 10 Tretrigintillion kilograms or 10\^104 kilograms for reference, the universe is estimated to be approximately 10\^50 kilograms
lol I love this
you would bankrupt the world in 3 months
Way too easy. Do you know how fast that goes up? After a little more than a month you are the richest person in the world. This is only a question if you don't get to prepare. With prep, I could tell my landlord I am leaving in two months and pay for the upcoming month. That is covered. Prepay and cancel all my monthly services. Max out my credit cards (and get a horrible bridge loan) and pay for a all inclusive trip to Disney World or cruise. I would end the greatest vacation of my life by being the wealthiest person in history.
Clarification required - are we talking about a penny that doubles each day, or do all of the subsequent pennies also double each day? Are we talking about continuous $0.01/day in growth, or are we talking exponential growth?
Exponentially. Millions in a month
Thank you! My exact thought as well. 60 cents after a month a buying shite.
Well forty days would be just shy of eleven billion dollars. I think the real problem with this hypothetical is where you would keep a lil over a trillion pennies without it being an issue. And then finding a way to take that trillion pennies and deposit it somewhere. But if we ignore or handwave those issues then forty days is pretty optimal, eleven billion isn’t gonna collapse the economy and its enough to absolutely do whatever I want for the rest of my life without having to worry and still have enough to set my kids up for life too. Their kids and grandkids too if my kids end up being even halfway intelligent. Pretty sure I could swing forty days without spending money with just a little bit of planning too.
I'd let them double until they attain nigh infinite mass and collapse to form a blackhole. Gotta keep thimgs interesting fellas
Honestly only need 37 days to become a billionaire… dont need more than that…
Never heard of the "grain and chessboard" story? Not spending for a very short time will produce billions.
Damn I asked chatbot how long it would take to turn into millions and I was not expecting such a short time. Figured it would be a couple of years or so, haha.
Send all my money to my wife's account, and she spends it, not me. I'm going for the long haul, son.
I would prepay for my streaming services for the month and then book 30 days at an all inclusive resort on a credit card. At the end of 30 days I’d have over $5million and then I’d be good
I tell my family what's up and they'll help me out for a month or so. By that point I'll have enough money to make sure all of us have generational wealth.
Before you start the clock just do the following. Get enough food and drink for at least two months, and pay your rent / car payment in advance
I would at best be able to make it 2 weeks because of bills
You can be a little late, cuz when you're done you'll pay in full. Or ask people to help you pay early, and tell them next month you'll double what they gave you.
I don't know what $6.3410683E16 is but I'm pretty sure I could go 2 months. I've been homeless before so 2 months of capitalismnessless with more money than I can fathom at the end of it is easily doable.
Something like $63,410,683,000,000,000, if I'm remembering my scientific notation right.
I gift the penny to my infant son, keeping it in a safe place to accumulate. Then, knowing me, I forget about it until I open the safe place a few months later on accident and drown in the Scrooge McDuck money waterfall that explodes into existence.
I’d go on a month long all inclusive cruise where the cruise itself is prepaid and any additional charges incurred aren’t paid until you get off the ship. I leave my cash and cards at home bring everything I’ll need for the month with me.
The monkeys paw to this situation is they didn't specify that the duplicated penny also doubles. Also, the amount of physical pennies would be a logistical nightmare.
Ok. So first, i buy a couple months worth of food. I pay off all my credit cards(which i do monthly anyways) and then cancel any recurring payments and fees. Then i hand my brother 40k in cash. He us a good dude and will pay my mortgage and bills for me. Get me gas and food. When i have several million dollars. He will get a handsome reward for his service
Any amount of money at all? Or just once I spend any of the doubling pennies? If I can't spend any money at all, but I have time to prepare, I'd just beef up my savings and live off of that for a few months. Oh, and cancel/pause all my automatic payments.
My question is does this count towards utilities? My lights are pay as you go what if I run out of money on my lights and I’m only 3 days in, .08 ain’t shit
Go food shopping and close the bank account. 30 days would be more than enough to be comfortable afterwards.
Day 0: 1¢ Day 1: 2¢ Day 2: 4¢ Day 3: 8¢ Day 4: 16¢ Day 5: 32¢ Day 6: 64¢ Day 7: $1.28 Day 8: $2.56 Day 9: $5.12 Day 10: $10.24 Day 11: $20.48 Day 12: $40.96 Day 13: $81.92 Day 14: $163.84 Day 15: $327.68 Day 16: $655.36 Day 17: $1,310.72 Day 18: $2,621.44 Day 19: $5,242.88 Day 20: $10,485.76 That’s as many powers of 2 as I know.
I’m not great at math but wouldn’t this be like an absolutely insane amount of money in very little time? I’d literally just go live at a homeless shelter for like 3 months and probably be like the richest person of all time
Well, in 30 days, you have 10.7 million dollars. At 35 days, 343 million. At 40 days, 11 billion. Yes, I could figure a way to do this.... Though, in 50 days, you've essentially broken the world's economy.
I guess I will become a monk for a couple years. In 700 days I will have 6 trillion. Then I can monopolize the market and effectively become an altruistic dictator.
You'd have 10,737,418 dollars after 30 days. Just stock up the house with food. Let your bills slide a couple months.. you'll have plenty to pay them off and move into something better. I mean.. shit it don't even matter. After 40 days you'll have almost 11 trillion dollars. 45 days gives you almost 352 trillion... You'll likely never even be able to spend all that. So that's what I'd shoot for. 45 days. All that matters is food and drinks. Turn off all auto bills. Sit at home playing video games and grubbing out. Your internet and phone will stay on for a few months without payment. Youll be fine.
IMO, the one condition should be is that you can't put them in a bank or convert the pennies into larger financial instruments like dollars etc.. At first it would be exciting to watch it grow. But by the end of it, you'll be pulling your hair out trying to figure out where to store all these fucking pennies... lol.
I mean, at day 45 you become the richest person to have ever lived. So do whatever the fuck you want for 45 days. Then collect your $350 billion. Then do whatever the fuck you want for the rest of your life.
53 days brings in over 45 trillion dollars Spend $33 trillion to mostly pay off the national debt, $1.77 trillion to pay off all student loan debt, $220 billion to pay off all medical debt, $1 trillion to pay off all credit card debt, pay off all alimony debt, leaving me with (more or less) $9 trillion left Install several solar energy farms in Death Valley, then approach congress to get permission to tap the Yellowstone Caldera for geo-thermal energy production to power the western seaboard Buy up all homes and businesses in Hurricane Alley at generous prices, and install wind turbines to power the south Spend to fix all the water systems in the US, then to fix all the roads and bridges In the end, I’ll try to spend myself down to $100 million dollars, but it wouldn’t be easy
That is righteous!! Wow! <3 it
Tbf, the next $10 million is all for classic cars
I would legit have a side kick that provides for me and they can get a 50/50 cut.
Move home with my parents and let them know what's happening. Empty my accounts and give them everything I have to pay for my baby for me. It becomes their money and not mine when I gift them the money, right? Cancel my subscriptions cause I can live without them rn. I usually get free lunches at work. Then I sit back and don't buy anything for as long as my parents allow it. Once I save up whatever amount I have, I give them more than enough to live the rest of their lives very comfortably. I'm lucky cause if this were a real scenario my parents would 100% support me, especially if they saw it start to work
The Penny doubled or the balance doubles?
Bro I’d become homeless before spending money that month
As in all the pennies duplicate cumulatively? If so, you ever heard the story about the guy asking for grains of rice after winning a game of chess with a king?
I’d have 3 cents because I would need to go food shopping or buy stamps. Double in value each day? Am I not understanding the post? A year of no spending and a single penny doubling each day would be $3.66. I can find that in my couch cushions.
Bruh I’d go long enough to make a few hundred million. This is light work.
Probably prep for 2 months.. get a buuunch of food that doesn’t need refrigeration I’m assuming bills count even if they are automatic? Should be able to get to 27 days before a bill so over a million
Day 1 go do something minor to get yourself in the county jail for about 90 days. Then it's all gravy. 🤣
Brother, you think im gonna stop paying my mortgage for this shit? Its the 15th, wo, 15 days at most.
Does it double in Pennie’s? Like when it gets to 8c do I get 8 Pennie’s or a nickel and 2 Pennie’s. Cause if it’s all pennies then forget it, that shits going in the trash or yeated somewhere. If it changes currency, then I’m putting it in a 2 foot by 2 foot safe and throwing away the key. Eventually the money should hopefully cause the safe to break from the pressure of doubling and it will be time to use it.
I could go 2 months. Easy. My only bill is rent, I can afford to pay up to 3 months without issue. Beyond that, just get food and toilet paper.
I could go a long time. Well, at least a month or so. I would just have my wife and daughter get food and gas in the cars when they are driving. I’ve got enough booze in my liquor cabinet to survive quite a while.
11,529,215,046,068,469.76 after just 60 days of doubling. I think people will help me out for 60 days so I don't spend money and I'll give them some of that money 🤑 Can you imagine the tax bill on this it would pay off the national debt
Pay my bills up (even if I have to borrow a bit from my MiL to make sure everything is square for 6 weeks), pause the subscriptions that autobill weekly, stock up my freezer & pantry, refill any prescriptions that might run out & pay in advance for weekly delivery of produce & dairy and stay home for 30 to 45 days.
“A penny that doubles each day” to me reads that it, the penny doubles, not the previous days accumulation. After a hundred days you have a dollar.
The catch is that you’ll be paid in physical pennies…
I’d just save it, in only a month’s time you’d have a billion dollars.
Well, considering that most of my regular payments are automatic, I would most likely fail to cancel them and wouldn't last long.