cait_sith
Brain rotted, often missing word
- Apr 8, 2024
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Saw this "inspirational" tiktok-gunk in my twitter feed again as it seems to get viral every few months and i need to sperg out about it. It's safe to say that many of us here would choose not waking up tomorrow even without the money, but even from a normie-perspective I find this "inspirational" thought experiment incredibly daft. Of course for most psychologically healthy people, the biological drive for self-preservation and continuation of one's existence will trump any hypothetical monetary windfall, no matter how large. There's nothing profound about hypothetically choosing to wake up tomorrow over money - it's simply the default mental setting for anyone not actively struggling against survival instincts. If they'd be asked if either their beloved mother died today or they don't wake up tomorrow, most would choose their own existence, but none would take an "inspirational" boost from the thought that them waking up is more important than their own mother, waking up every morning screaming: "Woohoo, waking up is more important than my own mother, so I LOVE waking up more than my mother" no, it would be desperate act of self-presevation, followed by crying every morning.
I kinda wish these kind of interviews weren't staged, so I'd get to answer them with a counter question: "Would YOU accept 10 million$ with the catch that I, who is a stranger to you, don't get to wake up tomorrow" Turns out my life has a lot less value than 10 million, if I'm not the one making the desicion about it.
If only the time-frame of me getting to enjoy the 10 million would extended to a year, it would add some value to this thought experiment as I will barely manage to cram a lobster-dinner, sourcing high grade coke and orchestrating an escord orgy in that single day and still only got to spend a fraction of that money, but if you'd extent the time i can enjoy the money for a year you'd run into the quandary that many, especially poor, people would choose one year in luxury over a life-time in poverty, and you of course need that "Muh tomorrow" timeframe to be extra-inspirational.
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