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You all are misinterpetting this. If in the rest of your life you spend 2 hours or more fixing door hinges the 500 million is revoked and if you’re in the negative now they take your organs to make up for the deficit.

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grte@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
If I had half a billion dollars I can promise you I would be spending zero seconds of the rest of my life screwing in door hinges.

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- binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I can imagine the genie thinking “Bwahaha I tricked you!” and then getting increasingly frustrated that I never fix a door hinge again even though I didn’t notice the trick wording.
  
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  - kn33@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Right? It’s like… let’s see. I have half a billion dollars. I just noticed my door hinge isn’t working correctly. Do I
    
    A. Attempt to fix it, requiring maybe a trip to the hardware store, but at the minimum some time and effort B. Ask my assistant to call someone and go back to playing video games
    
    I know what I’d do.
    
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- sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If I had that money I could finally pursue my passion of fixing door hinges.
  
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