Originally Posted by kellykip

I might sacrifice a family member or 2 if it meant killing this fucking turd:

seriously, i see that commercial all the damn time... i don't even get it... and even if i did i would still hate it

 

Originally Posted by FenwayKing

I think that this question really centers around how close you are with your family. While most people have friends they are close with, most ppl's friends are largely replaceable to them. A lot of people become closer with their college friends than their high school friends, but then once they're out of college, it becomes your work friends etc etc etc. So you can easily make new friends in this situation. You aren't giving up "friends"---you're giving up the friends you have right now, which most people do their entire lives for various circumstances anyway. I have a few friends that it'd be really really really hard to say goodbye to though for sure.

If I had kids, the answer would be no amount easily. And if I was super close with my family like some people (eg: Shrubbery or JRoth or Bfactor), I would definitely also say no number. However, with regards to my family, even though I get along with them etc, I'm not super duper close with them. All of our cousin/grandparents/extended relatives are basically in India so I honestly barely know anything about them. So that leaves my mom/dad/brother/uncle as the only family that really matters to me in any sort of long-term way. While my mom and dad were really good parents, it's not like we are super close. A lot of my viewpoints in life (i.e. not being religious, not necessarily wanting to have an Indian wife to name a couple examples) directly contrast with theirs; this was a huge source of conflict growing up and even though we're generally past those teenage arguments, it's not like I call them up to chat about my innermost thoughts and stuff these days. We just aren't close; we probably haven't had a deep conversation in 5-6 years at least. I think it's pretty absurd that people are calling anyone that puts a number on it insane---not everyone has an awesome family that they're super close to lol.

What's actually pretty funny is my parents would tell me to do it for like 20 mill I'm pretty sure. They say that the only goal in parents' lives should be to make sure that their kids' lives are better than theirs; if I passed up 20 mill to talk to them every couple weeks and see them twice a year, they'd be super pissed off at me lol.

well said.

 

Originally Posted by FenwayKing

What's actually pretty funny is my parents would tell me to do it for like 20 mill I'm pretty sure. They say that the only goal in parents' lives should be to make sure that their kids' lives are better than theirs; if I passed up 20 mill to talk to them every couple weeks and see them twice a year, they'd be super pissed off at me lol.

SO THIS

My father and mother sacrifice a ton of shit for my sister and I to have whatever we want. They couldn't be happier if he knew that me, my future kids, and their kids are set forever.

It seems that the trend for this thread is the following:

If you have kids, live close to your family, the answer is a definite no.

If you live far away from all of your relatives (zander, socal, fenway, myself), you can do it for an amount that sets you and your offspring for life.

Funny, I'm watching the episode where Butters parents sell Butters for 20mil

Im going the sweetness route and trying to get them in the NBA

Friends I could give up for a reasonable amount. Not quite sure if an actual figure though. Family i wouldnt for any amount

 

Originally Posted by AMARTIN1181

What's money if u have no one to share it with?

Idk bout you but that sounds like more fucking money to me.

And what, we dont count coke dealers and latina hookers as people these days? SMH

 

Originally Posted by saxman

no amount of money could convince me to do this.

this

 

Originally Posted by FenwayKing

so all you guys someone walks up to you with a billion dollars and you're going to turn it down? btw so far, amongst all the people we've asked we've gotten some pretty varying numbers; only one person said no amount.

Yup I'd turn it down, seriously no amount and anyone that disagrees has some issues imo

Yea, Dyz makes a good point. That said, I'm not sure it would necessarily be as easy/simple as it sounds to just fix the world if you suddenly acquired a trillion bucks or whatever. It could end up being one of those situations where you accidentally actually somehow end up making the world a WORSE place overall, by pumping money into various charities/research facilities/political/anti-political parties/whatever where the true effect ends up being way different from what you anticipated effect was for what would happen when you did that, and everything got all chaotic anarchy sauce and millions of people died, and no good revolution occurred, only either a bad one that made everything worse in the longrun, or maybe no revolution at all, or like, I dunno, but you understand what I mean though, that, it wouldn't necessarily be so simple as: acquire money ----> pump money into super obvious stuff to pump money into to solve world problems -----> fix earth. It could obv end up more like: acquire money ------> pump money into stuff which seems like it should make the world a better place -----> unexpectedly the opposite occurs, as a result of various complex factors/side-effects that manifest in weird ways that are hard to anticipate, as a result of such giant amounts of money shifting around so quickly, which could theoretically have a super negative effect on earth if shit wasn't calculated super perfectly or something -----> earth is now an even worse place. etc

That said, I would still try to do lots of drastic stuff to try to change the world if I got a trillion dollars, like, I wouldn't just not do stuff out of fear of shit going all wrong due to the effects ending up being different from what I initially thought they would be, but, I would just be aware that that could happen, and just do it anyway and be like "Fuck it, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" or whatevers, lol.

Since I have a kid, there's no chance I could do it. I'd rather die poor and with her than rich and without her.

If it were my g/f, I'd settle for a warm Fanta and a pack of trading cards but I'd still demand a few million just because somebody's offering to pay.

WTF is this hypothetical shit? I've been trying to sell my son for like 2.5 years. At this point, I'll take $50, a bag of pucks, and some bubble gum. Any takers? You pay shipping.

No amount. No way I could do it.

My parents, brothers, cousins, and friends? Not much at all. I hardly talk to any of them already. Anything 7 figures+, maybe even $500K depending on when you asked. I make new friends easily.

My wife and daughter? Not all the money on the planet.

How much would it take to build the Death Star?

since i actually like my family and friends i wouldnt do it.

can def see the other side tho

No Amount, Kid.