You'd need to calculate the compound interest

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  5 million years. It might be nice to live that long

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    so many ways that wish would go wrong.

    ain’t worth the risk mate

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• nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If choosing the second option guarantees I would still be alive to receive that dollar, then hell yeah.

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  • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You will die, come back to receive your dollar, then immediately did again.

    I’m sorry.

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    • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Oops I did it again.

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  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d think living for five million years would be a curse more than anything else

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    • dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not a commitment on our side though, we can stop living when we want to between now and 5 million years later. Imagine loving it and reaching 4999999 years though…

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah but… Fuck it; I’ve got nothing better to do.

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  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So you’ll receive the dollar and then just die? That’s almost like not getting the dollar at all. Think about that

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    • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      A wise man once said “money can’t buy happiness, but i’d rather die holding one dollar than die holding zero dollars”

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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All the compound interest calculators on websites refuse to go over 100 years so I guess I’ll just take the 5 mil 😭

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The interest is zero

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    • Bonsoir@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If there is enough deflation, that dollar could actually be worth billions in today’s dollars!

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh but the fees are non-zero!

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That can’t be right, no bank could be so evil

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  • Chivera@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sucks

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• altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unethical number game suggests that if you invest 5mil into property now, you’d soon afford to double that, then quadruple that, then… By the end of said term, every square meter of Earth would hold some kind of an empty apartment complex.

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  After 5 million years, a pristine dollar bill will be a priceless historical artifact. I’ll take that.

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• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It says nothing about interest, just that you’d get a dollar. There would be 5 million years of inflation that devalues that dollar and to top it all off we’d all be dead in 5 million years for roughly around 5 million years lol

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• random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m guessing that current forms of societies that recognise dollars only last two centuries at most.

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• selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t want to be alive 5 million more years to wait for my dollar. I’ll take the 5,000,000 in just one year.

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