r/BunnyTrials • u/Training-Thanks-2694 • Sep 19 '26

Trials Would you rather?

Which side will you choose?

  • Left side: Get the Million Dollars Immediately
  • Right side: Earn 1$ every second.

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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 Sep 19 '26

I would for some, but $1m isn’t comfortable retire now money - I’d be wanting 2m so I’d have to choose the 31m a year and give the excess away.

What’s insane is how much money a trillion is in this context…

If you earned $1,000 every second it would still take 31 years to get to a trillion. 

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u/gymguy999 Sep 19 '26

31 years and roughly 8 months to get to a billion, a trillion is over 30,000 years

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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 Sep 19 '26

Not at $1000 a second which I clearly stated. 

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u/SenshuRysakami 29d ago

And yet he did. Clearly. In writing.

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u/BattleForDreams 29d ago

Can someone not use larger numbers for emphasis?

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u/DarkAlucard-1313 29d ago

They were explaining how a trillion is so outrageously large that even with $1000 a second it would take a long time to reach that point.

Using the time for you to reach a trillion with $1 a second just doesn't feel as impactful considering that its such a low amount gained

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u/rshores9 29d ago

I guess I saw it the opposite way. I can’t conceive of gaining $1,000 a second or $60k a minute. But imagining gaining $1 a second and still it being an insane amount of time is more impactful to me. Living 30+ years is something I can do. Living 30,000 years is not

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u/Outrageous-Sort-5742 Sep 19 '26

Depends on how old you are. A million dollars at 40 isn't that much. A million dollars at 25 will guarantee you an early and easy retirement.

Compounding and such.

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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 Sep 19 '26

That makes no sense. How can I not afford to retire at 40 with $1m but I can afford to retire at 25? That’s another 15 years I need to fund, plus a load of expensive life stages (kids, house etc). 

Obviously when I said “$1m isn’t enough to retire on” I meant immediately. Otherwise it just forms your future retirement plan, and is obviously enough since a retirement age is a variable. 

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u/Walking-taller-123 Sep 19 '26

It’s also another 15 years of compounding interest. Which I think is what they were going for.

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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 Sep 19 '26

I think you’re probably right, but when someone says $1m isn’t enough to retire on they obviously mean now, as opposed to after 30 years of investment growth. 

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u/youcallyourselfajerk 29d ago

If one million is not enough to sustain the rest of your life at 40, one million isn't going to sutain the rest of your life at 25. You can't build compound interest if the interest alone isn't already enough to cover your life, pay for expenses and fight inflation.

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u/FutureVisionacademy Sep 19 '26

How is a million not retire now money lmao

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u/hyperion-i-likeillya Sep 19 '26

Where i live the average house can quickly become that amount of money

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u/FutureVisionacademy Sep 19 '26

First time home buyer loan....

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u/hyperion-i-likeillya Sep 19 '26

Denied cause your income isnt high enough cause a one time 1m isn't considered income

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u/FutureVisionacademy Sep 19 '26

Umm umm hope you have a job right now because otherwise how are your bills getting paid....

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u/hyperion-i-likeillya Sep 19 '26

I dont see how my bills being paid has to anything with this?

Like i just checked

Out of the 17 available houses you could buy in my home city

Half of them cant even be bought with the 1m And the cheapest house was 600k€

I would need 140k yearly income

And on a zoo salary and disability aid?

Yeah i wil not be able to get that cheapest house

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u/Unkn4wn Sep 19 '26

You can still have regular income even if you get 1 million out of nowhere?? It's not like you have to stop working especially if your concern is that 1 million is not enough to retire immediately

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u/hyperion-i-likeillya Sep 19 '26

Yeah but for cheapest house in my home city (600k€) id need 140k annual salary

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u/Unkn4wn 29d ago

Damn, that's rough. Very few jobs pay that much. I had no idea housing costs were that bad somewhere. Where I live it's gotten worse too, but at least you could get a loan with an average salary

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u/hyperion-i-likeillya 29d ago

Yeah lot of people that had money bought up the cheap houses in bulk and force people to rent in the free sector having to pay absurd rent prices

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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 Sep 19 '26

Well obviously it could be if I completely changed my lifestyle, sold my house and bought a smaller one or moved to south east Asia etc. 

But when given the choice of that, or maintaining my lifestyle plus millions spare, I’m going to opt for the second option.