r/hypotheticalsituation 4d ago

Money $1 million daily ethically or $10 million daily evily?

You’re given an option between 2 ways of making money. Which would you rather?

Option 1 - The Sin Tax: Every day at the end of the day you get $1 million deposited into your bank account, however, every time you break one of 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony or sloth), no matter the severity, the amount deposited into your bank account halves. This tax stacks with each time you sin during the day with no limit. A sin counts as anything you consciously act upon and choose to disobey, unconscious and passing thoughts don’t count unless you act upon them. Every day it resets and you start with the potential to earn $1,000,000 again.

Option 2 - The Evil List: Every day you are given 8 new tasks on a todo list that get progressively more and more evil. Every task completed increases the money you receive by tenfold with a limit up to $10 million a day. The $1 task starts off simple with something like telling a lie to someone and the final $10 million task is something like killing an innocent family of 4. A more moderate task around $10,000 would be something like convincing someone to do something that will actively harm them or stealing an item of high value. After completing the task, the money is deposited immediately into your bank account. If an item is not completed or completed partially, you do not receive the reward for completing the task. Every day at 12 AM according to your time zone, the todo list refreshed and you are given 8 new tasks.

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u/mazes 4d ago

You just acted on greed.

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u/Do_you_smell_that_ 4d ago

Hehe nice catch

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u/zeptillian 4d ago

Ok then start it at 11:59PM and end it 24 hours and 2 minutes later.

The greed will only matter until the clock strikes midnight, then it resets.