The Love folks are more vocal in the thread, but the vote is about even. Let's hear from more of my Money brethren.
choosing money means you don't get any love, whereas choosing love doesn't necessarily mean that you won't ever make any money. the choice is obvious.
I think people generally skew a bit too far into the whole "money doesn't buy you happiness" thing, but to not be loved AT ALL for the rest of your life? Harrowing thought.
i dont think you guys realize how much awesome shit you can buy with 10mil. whats so great about someone loving you
Money. I figure that the only people that love me right now are my family, and I would definitely hate to lose that, but they'll probably all die at some point, and I'll lose it anyway. I don't think anyone else has loved me for at least the past 5 years. I made it that far, I guess I could keep going. But having a good deal of money would take all the pressure off me, and I could just do what I want instead of always feeling like I should be doing more for my career and life. And anyway, sometimes loving someone else can still be rewarding even if it's unrequited. I'd make that sacrifice for 10 million I think. Make it 100 million and it's a no-brainer.
You'd blow through that money pretty fast though if you had to rely on awesome stuff alone to enrich your life.
not being loved =/= alone but i can see why you choose love, cause youre a woman and thats all you care about
Love. I can't fuck money, they make me itch. And besides, i don't want to be the richest dead man in the cemetery. People who voted money, don't know what life's about, and they didn't experience being loved by someone. I really don't see the choice here. I can't compare the two. I have money all the time...that's easy.
Also I chose love. I rarely buy things anyway, and with all that money I'd just end up having a record collection with a total playing time longer than the remainder of my life.
Money. You can buy anything with money, especially happiness. In the wise words of Spike Milligan, "Whoever said money can't buy happiness, has obviously never had a lot of money." Most of my sorrows come about because I don't have enough money. Also love bogs people down. Everyone seems to be happy living a boring, shitty life without any big goals and they stop being such great friends when they fall in love.
Btw, I chose 10 Mill because that is the amount that financial experts deemed what you need to never need to work for your entire life, obviously not buying crazy expensive shit and living off of interest and whatnot.
By the way... 10 million dollars is $167 000 a year until I am 80. That is so much god damn money. You could have a great time.
Shopping alone is boring. :/ And being alone gets boring in the long run. So, nobody would love me, does it mean people would be friendly with me? Or does it mean that people would like, accept me but not think highly of me?
Love is the most basic human need there is. It's the only thing that can bring us true, honest happiness. Money is nothing else but a rather painfully important must. It helps us go on, to get somewhere in life, but it doesn't complete us, it doesn't fulfill our honest to god desires. I don't need anything. I could live under a bridge until the end of my days, if i had love at my side, i'd be a happy man. And i do believe in something like a pure, unconditional love that can last a lifetime. I know many people here don't, but i do. Always did.
The only benefit of choosing money in this situation is you would be able to know that anyone who claimed to love you was lying. That is quite an appealing skill to have. The problem is that its utility decreases when it can never give you the result you desire.
Love and I really can't understand why anyone other than an extreme misanthrope would pick otherwise.
I don't know if you have the equivalent of Municipal Bonds down there, but here I would invest the 10 million in Munis and could probably have an income of 200,000-500,000 a year without touching the principal.....Federal Income Tax free.
I don't think you guys are thinking this through. 10 million dollars can buy you 25 thousand high quality hookers. You could move to Thailand and own a castle equipped with 50 sex slaves for life.
Actually, you couldn't own the castle because property ownership is restricted to Thai nationals...but I agree with the sentiment. Although it would probably be best not to flaunt your wealth too much in Thailand...staying in nice hotels and banging bargirls would be okay, but living in a mansion would draw some dangerous attention. I would probably only vacation there if I were rich (of course I will be on vacation somewhere 10 months out of the year anyways!), but I would still have residence in Texas. Nolan, the situation you describe would be heaven for me...I'm so fucked up with abandonment issues that I already suspect that no one really loves me, it would be nice to know it was actually true and not paranoia.
I deliberated for a while, then chose money after a good bit of thinking, the stipulation in my mind being that I could still have friends, which I'm not sure of given the hypothetical. But if that's the case, definitely money. I'd travel and do so many fucking things I'd love to do. Buy musical equipment and write depressing albums about how no one loved me. Yeah.
I probably have the opposite problem. I have a child-like ability to make strong, genuine connections very quickly and easily with people. With that comes almost a sort of naivety wherein I take the other person at face value and assume they are on the same page as me. I'm extremely jaded towards the general faceless population, but people who I bring into my life (regardless of how briefly) are elevated to a much higher status in my mind and I'm very open and trusting with them. I don't know why that is, and I don't even necessarily think it's bad. I just have to... watch out for it, I guess.
