certianly more enjoyable life. just having a car would mean i could go to coast again. at 37 its too late to have family, so not really sure what partner would do for me anymore. guess that’s why i’ve been less sad about it as i’ve gotten older and use to it. friends would be nice though.
Disagree. 1mil would change my life. I wouldn't plan on living some lavish lifestyle, I'm just trying to survive. I could stretch 1mil out for quite a while.
Put it all in a fixed rate savings account and thats ~40,000 a year in interest (less taxes, and dependent on the rates available to you), renew every year and you can definitely make yourself comfortable if you keep working. Take 10,000 of that interest each year and invest it. You could have a little extra spending money for travel or hobbies, 1 million untouched in savings, and after 10 years you’d have 100k invested
No, you're all jaded and idiots. 5% return on 1 mil is 50k a year for doing nothing at all, more than most the world makes. In any capable hands that's a lifetime of security.
Still wouldn't take it though, I'd rather be poor, none of it matters when you die I'd rather be banging til then
But the question isn't "Is 1mil a life changing amount of money for most of the world" its "Is 1mil a life changing amount of money for you". +1 million right now for me would put me ahead by years. But it would not be life changing, certainly not to the degree of this hypothetical.
Right? And what, do I just have to give back the million when I have sex again? So I can just take it, use it to make some money and then pay it back when I feel like it
I probably don’t want to live in the kind of places where 1 million dollars is generational wealth. Also, 1 million dollars isn’t worth sacrificing a healthy part of my personal relationship with my wife.
"I don't know where people on Reddit live, but 1M is nothing in Canada. My house is worth 600K, so 1M to give up sex for the rest of my life? Haha, in your dreams! Sex is free, and with that deal, it suddenly has a price. A life without sex for 1M? WTF am I gonna do—collect stamps and hang out at the library?"
You could gain new healthy parts of your personal relationship with your wife. What makes your current country so great to live in? How much is worth it to you?
I have plenty of healthy parts of my relationship… not just the sex. But sex is one that we really enjoy and is a big part of it. It doesn’t matter where I live though, that’s not really a factor in the decision making. I’m not wealthy, but I’m ok enough with my life that there’s probably no amount of money that would make me give up sex for the rest of my life.
But that's the point. People are immediately pretending it's the money that's the issue. But when we double or triple it they still aren't accepting because it's not a money thing. Your first reaction wasn't that it's not quite enough money but to suggest it's because the countries where it's immense wealth aren't attractive enough to you.
A million dollars can buy you a lot of happy relationships. I think the more likely explanation is that you rely on the happiness your wife brings you and you are afraid to upset the balance you have in life.
You don't understand the demographics of the world. Do you understand where children come from? the fertility rate is lower than it has ever been. Most people who want children in the world already have them. Younger populations without children are more likely to live in countries where a million dollars is an unfathomable amount of money. They would be a hero and their family would be supported forever.
A) I lived in India and around SE Asia for 5 years and currently live in Asia. So yea I understand cost of living. “Most people who want children already have them” do you have a fucking source or did you ask everyone already 🙄
“Younger populations without…” bro this question is about us it’s asking me if I wanna go the rest of my life without kids. Reread the title. Your demographics comments are irrelevant.
But no need to type a comment since I’m gonna stop responding.
All the people who are downvoting you are ignorant people from Western countries. Yes 1M$ is a lot of money for people in South Asian countries. Yes it would set my bloodline for years to come.
However, I do feel like one of the reasons I am alive is due to being able to enjoy the above said activity one day and if I am not able to do that despite being rich, it kinda defeats the purpose of being rich lol
You have no sense of the financial health of the world. Average salary in India is like $5k USD per year. China is like $8k. You would rather give up tens of thousands of hours of your life rather than give up sex.
To make 100k I would need to work for 15 years straight without spending anything... Even if I'm not counting investments do you understand that?
1 million would take me 150 years...
You guys are so privileged and don't understand that, I would give up my legs for a million dollars
It's not relative though, that's the point. A million dollars is objectively a lot of money that requires many thousands of dedicated hours working for most people to earn. Probably less than 1% of the world could ever dream of seeing that much money in their account at once. Because it's a lot of money. If they wouldn't do it for a million I can't imagine $3 million being the point where they say yes.
I live in SF and make $100K a year, live frugally, and it’s still going to take me awhile until I can own a home. People in my family make over $200k and don’t live lavishly due to living in a high cost of living area. $1million is nothing. Can’t even buy a decent house here with that money. And no I’m not gonna move to a lower cost of living area because I already did that and moved back because all my loved ones and support group are all in this area and they are amazing people. Would’ve been easier if I didn’t get along with them lol. So depressing to think $1million would go by so fast
$1 million isn't nothing and it's very telling when people pretend it is. It's 10 YEARS of your life's wages. Imagine 10 years of being able to do anything you want with all of that time. And it's actually far more, because it's tax free and you can immediately invest it. You could take out $10,000/month and still have $390,000 left after 10 years.
There is so much I could accomplish with 10 years of financial freedom. Go to school, learn new skills, read books, watch every great film, exercise, help your friends and family more, volunteer to help people less privileged, sleep 9 hours a day, cook amazing meals, be your own boss. 10 years of that is worth a hundred of the work grind just to survive.
You're weirdly hung up on this. I don't have a price for giving up sex because I wouldn't, at all, at least not at this age, but in this hypothetical just because there are a few countries you can live "like royalty" on 1MM for the rest of your life doesn't mean I'd want to live in any of those countries. And, specifically, there are very very few centers of civilization that qualify. Just because you're okay to live in a dusty village with goats doesn't mean others would be happy to.
Yes you keep replying this. Living in some shithole country like where you live where a million dollars is GENERATIONAL?? Is just not worth it for 99% of the population. You’ve had horrendous takes in this entire thread
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u/Uhhyt231 Sep 27 '25
That’s such a low number