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#11
03-30-2007, 01:03 PM
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you've won 20 million dollars. you call all your family and friends. for the next week, all you talk about is what you're going to buy with that money. about what its going to be like to be a multi millionaire. you talk about cool stuff you're going to buy for your friends. you talk about how you never have to work another day in your life. for a week, you're the happiest man alive. [/ QUOTE ] What makes you think this would be my reaction? 
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03-30-2007, 01:24 PM
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i really dont understand the question...
if you guessed 5 numbers right then that is worth alot more than guessing 4, and therefore you would expect more and take more. why in the hell would you rather have just guessed 4 numbers? i dont understand how option 2 would affect the way i think about myself... and for the record - if i had won a 20,000,000 ticket, i wouldnt tell anybody before the check cleared. and even after that, i wouldnt tell but maybe 3 people. you dont tell everybody you know that you are now worth over 20 million dollars (ESPECIALLY before you actually are)... i dont even think im missing anything; i just think this is a retarded question... how about #2 scenario is - in order to get the 20 million you have to be at the collection office by 5:00 pm... youre running late and the only way you could get there is to run over X amount of pedestrians [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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03-30-2007, 02:02 PM
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everyone is underestimating how bad it will feel to lose $19,900,000. the day you collect $100,000 will be one of the worst of your life. [/ QUOTE ] If this is true, you've had a pretty awesome life. Why do you assume I'll call everybody I know and make plans for the money but not actually double check the ticket? If it were me personally, I would have checked the numbers about 10 billion times (yay hyperbole) before I called anybody. Even if we somehow presume I misread the ticket that many times, I still would have reservations until I actually had the money in my hand. I think you are way off base in assuming everybody would treat the money as theirs prior to actually receiving it.
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#16
03-30-2007, 02:47 PM
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ugh, this is so harsh. I'm trying to think of what kind of money it would take to make me go through that kind of let down. I think I'd be scared that I'd really spiral into a mini-depression. I'm going to say > 100K.
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03-30-2007, 03:54 PM
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ugh, this is so harsh. I'm trying to think of what kind of money it would take to make me go through that kind of let down. I think I'd be scared that I'd really spiral into a mini-depression. I'm going to say > 100K. [/ QUOTE ]this is the first logical response i've seen. "how would you feel if you lost 99% of your net worth?" "embarrassed and a little sad"
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03-30-2007, 04:32 PM
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[ QUOTE ] ugh, this is so harsh. I'm trying to think of what kind of money it would take to make me go through that kind of let down. I think I'd be scared that I'd really spiral into a mini-depression. I'm going to say > 100K. [/ QUOTE ]this is the first logical response i've seen. "how would you feel if you lost 99% of your net worth?" "embarrassed and a little sad" [/ QUOTE ] hey pal. my calling the question retarded was quite logical. you didnt lose 99% of your worth. you were an idiot who read his ticket wrong. until you got the 20 million you would have to expect that you are still a long way from getting it into your bank account (even if you had the right ticket). if you discovered that you were not getting the money because you misread the ticket - if i did that lets say - i would probably laugh at myself and say "Oh well, 100,000 is good. God im an idiot."... i would most certainly not go into a state of depression over money that was never mine... i think that whoever actually humored you with an answer was illogical, but most likely it was just you signed in on a different account.
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03-30-2007, 05:55 PM
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] ugh, this is so harsh. I'm trying to think of what kind of money it would take to make me go through that kind of let down. I think I'd be scared that I'd really spiral into a mini-depression. I'm going to say > 100K. [/ QUOTE ]this is the first logical response i've seen. "how would you feel if you lost 99% of your net worth?" "embarrassed and a little sad" [/ QUOTE ] hey pal. my calling the question retarded was quite logical. you didnt lose 99% of your worth. you were an idiot who read his ticket wrong. until you got the 20 million you would have to expect that you are still a long way from getting it into your bank account (even if you had the right ticket). if you discovered that you were not getting the money because you misread the ticket - if i did that lets say - i would probably laugh at myself and say "Oh well, 100,000 is good. God im an idiot."... i would most certainly not go into a state of depression over money that was never mine... i think that whoever actually humored you with an answer was illogical, but most likely it was just you signed in on a different account. [/ QUOTE ]ah ok. so if you had a $20,000,000 ticket in your hands (perfectly legit), and someone walked up to you, tore it into 50 pieces, then handed you a briefcase with $100,000 in it, you would feel EXACTLY the same right? just a little sad, right? because "until you got the 20 million you would have to expect that you are still a long way from getting it into your bank account" right? don't back up on your words now. the only way for you to not contradict yourself is to claim that you would still only feel a little disappointed if this would happen. so are you going to lie or retrace your steps?
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#20
03-30-2007, 06:42 PM
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everyone is underestimating how bad it will feel to lose $19,900,000. the day you collect $100,000 will be one of the worst of your life. [/ QUOTE ] a) No it wouldn't. b) Even if it was, I'm considering more than my happiness on a *single* day when I'm making this decision.
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