ITT: people forgetting that prisoners in the US are isolated like this, and it’s literal torture.
You’re not special.
It’s wild to me too because to do that to a patient I have to document every fifteen minutes how it would be an immediate risk to themselves or other people if I let them out and whether or not they’ve sustained any injury or are having any other medical complications. Every two hours I have to offer food, fluids, and the opportunity to use the bathroom. Every four hours I have to get a new order from a doctor and after twelve hours we have to notify the state. And I have to meticulously document ALL of this. The fact that unlicensed non medical personal can just… do it. No MD assessment. No monitoring of their hemodynamic stability. As long as they feel like. That’s fucking WILD.
I can’t afford 30 billion dollars, can I do it for free?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi
Hamatsu was challenged to stay alone, unclothed, in an apartment for Susunu! Denpa Shōnen, a Japanese reality-television show on Nippon Television, after winning a lottery for a “showbusiness-related job”. Hamatsu was challenged to enter mail-in sweepstakes until he won ¥1 million (about $8,000) in total. Hamatsu started with nothing (including no clothes), was cut off from outside communication and broadcasting, and had nothing to keep him company except the magazines he combed through for sweepstakes entry forms. After spending 335 days to reach the target, Hamatsu set the Guinness world record for the “longest time survived on competition winnings”.
I’m going insane already what’s the difference
Yep, I’d just exercise and sleep.
As someone who has (voluntarily) done 24 hours in solitary confinement with nothing but a blanket, a toilet, a concrete floor, and one meal a day, I don’t think anyone here will last more than 3 days. That was the longest, most painful 24 hours of my life.
Do I get a dedicated cum rag?
You get two socks. You can chose which one to dedicate.
I’d be willing to linearly downscale.
I am sure that for me 3 Million is more than i could ever reasonably spend for the rest of my life.
So with 8760 hours in a year, that would be like 53 Minutes. You know what, make it a full hour.
Did someone mention Linearity? 😁😁
This comment exposes how wrong it actually is, that we allow individuals to become billionaires…
Came here to say that. 30 billion is a stupid amount of money. If down scaling is an option, anyone who considers doing it for a year (for personally owning all the money) is mentally ill.
Why?
Shouldn’t everyone feel morally responsible for receiving the maximum reward so that they can personally distribute those funds amongst as many people as possible? The other guy is fine with just 3m, so one year of your life apparently could provide 9999 other people with a life of never having to work again.
That is why I said (for personally owning all the money). If someone is selfless enough to spend one year in an insane room so they can give away the money to others, kudos to that person.
I wonder if they’d still want to do it after the year of isolation.
I’d probably want to use the money to buy the political influence to end solitary confinement. And also ending private prisons while we’re at it.
Is it fair or just to expect one person to suffer for the benefit of others?
[The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas intensifies]
The Ones Who Walk toward Omelas, To Volunteer for the Pain Pit
According to God, yes, it’s fair and makes a whole lot of sense actually.
Where is the money coming from? It would be just redistributing money to give it to some lucky people. Instead we could fight against inequality and skip a year of misery.
🤯
Yeah I wouldn’t know what to do with 30 billion. Pay off the mortgage, couple of new cars, irrigate the world’s deserts?
I’d spend all 30B within a month absolutely feasting on the rich
Fair. Though I think if I had 30 billion I’d start build better housing in 3rd world countries or something like that
Shit. 1 million is enough for me, I’m not going to earn that the rest of my life.
So sign me up for 20 mins in there.
Of all the ways to get 30 billion dollars, this would probably be the least emotionally disturbing choice.
Only ethical billionaire
Of course they’d be a fucking nutter once released
My wife lived a very similar life, but also in pain for multiple years. She had no entertainment because everything hurt. The lack of entertainment didn’t drive her insane. Even the pain didn’t drive her insane.
But then you came along?
No she died. I took care of her for years.
The joke felt funnier und more lighthearted in my head. Sorry for your loss.
No problem. Thanks for the apology. I appreciate it.
Well, not a ‘nutter’ compared to other billionaires tho.
Inherit it from parents who… Ok, I see your point
Eh, it doesn’t make you immoral to inherit money from an evil person, but it’s immoral to keep it.
The intended implication was that these may not be the best parents. The comment above was about being emotional disturbed. Sure, it was about choices but let’s read over that
I think this is one of those things where it seems totally fine to you but in reality it activates some kind of intrinsic biological limit that you aren’t even aware of. I FEEL like I would easily conquer the nothing box by just doing a lot of great thinking. But scientifically, I kind of doubt that I really could. It’s like if someone challenged me to eat only celery for a year. I might have the willpower to do it, but biologically I may just die. Now I don’t think the nothing box would kill me, but I can imagine it making people go crazy for sure.
solitary confinement is recognized as torture, and that’s probably for a good reason. I’ve also had personal experience in psychiatric hospitals with people who had to be confined, and while their being there is probably due to every available professional being entirely hopeless with them, the confinement definitely doesn’t help the situation. even the ex-director of the NIMH, thomas insel, finds in “healing: our path from mental illness to mental health” that a lot of mental healthcare is actually social and communal care, not cold hard medicine. where medicines fail, you can still treat a patient with kindness and patience, integrate them into their community, make friends, have good daily experiences. you can still give them a human touch. all that heals people to some extent, and solitary confinement is exactly the opposite of it.
You’re right, you’d go crazy, check out this vid of VSauce doing it for three days. https://youtu.be/iqKdEhx-dD4
One year in that room would make anyone go crazy enough to not enjoy the money when they get out
Id still do it in a heartbeat. I’ve got a year to lay there and plan out how to best distribute/use it. $30 billion would be more than enough to build a nice commune that can grow someplace with healthcare and everything else taken care of for all the people that live there. Just the interest would pay for everything if you could get 5% interest on it and never have to touch any of the principle. Could get 15,000 people going and pay them all 100,000 a year at first while we set everything up. There would be a lot of schematics to figure out, and finding a location would be tough, but there is absolutely no reason I couldn’t go to therapy or even get others to help manage the set up and walk into the sea after if I’ve really lost it. Could possibly help a lot of people and grow into something nice.
I think you’re underestimating how long a year is. Even a week in solitary is enough to cause permanent damage
It takes me 3 days alone before my sanity begins slipping. I can’t imagine a year. After a day of deconstructing the cell and making fluff puppets, I’d already be bored. The brain craves stimulation.
Found the extrovert
Everyone knows introverts just sit at home and stare at the wall all day
Sometimes the floor
Extroversion and introversion have nothing to do with this. The lack of brain stimulation would probably end up killing you before the year ended
You don’t say :P
I would be willing to suffer permanent damage to ensure everyone I have ever cared about has all the money they need to thrive.
If the year in solitary confinement doesn’t turn you into a psychopath the $30 billion will!
Here’s an easy way to kill time: try counting and see how close you can get to 30 billion
A billion seconds is approximately 30 years, so probably not very close
That’s exactly the point. The idea that $100 is an amount of money that would give most people some pause before they spend it, but it’s not an unmanageable amount of money.
So, how about we’re try counting to 30 billion by hundreds. Even then, it’s a ridiculous task. If you decided to purchase every single thing (that exists) that you’ve ever wanted, you’d go insane just trying to figure out why anyone would ever need that much money.
Then again, you could not spend it on yourself… then, it becomes super-easy to spend billions of dollars! You could lift entire starving populations into solvency. So, why is no one doing that? Cuz the coolest thing to do with billions of dollars is to build more portfolios and buy politicians.
Let’s think about this another way: I don’t know how much it costs to hire a hitman, but I feel like $10,000 is a pretty common amount to read in articles about successful hits (followed by arrests). So, assuming $10k is a reasonable price for a hit, $30B is enough to put out hits on almost every single person in USA. People like Musk could afford to hire hitmen to wipe out populations across entire countries, and I’m sure he’s thought about that plenty of times. It’s no wonder he can build self-crashing cars with no remorse. Dude can literally get away with murder, and then afford to murder anyone who tries to arrest or prosecute him.
I’d rather go insane trying to count to 30 billion than to suffer from whatever brain-rot is going on in the minds of existing billionaires.
Totally will not land you in crazyland!
ironically, I doubt you could count to 30 billion in 1 year…shows how much money that is.
Once you get into the millions, it takes well over a second to recite each digit of a number. One million is only 1/30,000th of the way in.
A year is less than 32 million seconds.
Even if you skipped to 1 million, and somehow managed to get through each number in only a second, and counted every single second of every single day without breaking for sleep, you still would only get a little over a thousandth of the way through 30 billion.
1 year and your insane
Or
Waste your whole life working towards 0.001% of that.
If I can write a will beforehand for who gets it then it’s worth it.
I know we have a decent amount of science pointing to this breaking the mind, but I can’t help but wonder if anything would change knowing an unimaginably great prize was waiting on the other side. How long would it take to count to 30 billion…
Counting to 30,000,000,000 would take more than a year.
$951.29/s
Not counting the amount of times you lose track of the number you were in and have to restart at some checkpoint
I’ve seen VSauce’s video where Michael does this for like, what, three days? And he’s basically lost it by the end. So while this is tempting, no, I can’t do it.
Don’t forget drawing on the walls with your shit
the phantom shitter strikes again
ew. i use stinky steve’s shit just for the alliteration.
