What would you do with $100k?

[SwordoftheVistula]

Scenario: Someone comes to you today and hands you $100k (or 100k Euros, or pounds). You are also informed that at age 70 you will get cancer, and will either need a $100k procedure or die within 6 months.

What would you do with the $100k?

A. Put it in the bank and save it for the procedure

B. Spend it on other stuff (house, car, jet ski, whatever)



Related to this page on this thread about $100k medical operations.

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14311&page=7

[Electronic God-Man]

Save it for the operation. $100,000 isn't really that much money.

[Loki]

Why not just ensure you live in a country that gives free medical care to elderly? ;) One shouldn't have to worry about having money for operations at 70. That's totally ridiculous.

[Beorn]

Blow the lot on whiskey, whores and Wolverine comics.

Who wants to live to 70 only to face the struggle against cancer?

[SwordoftheVistula]

Why not just ensure you live in a country that gives free medical care to elderly? ;) One shouldn't have to worry about having money for operations at 70. That's totally ridiculous.

The $100k has to come from somewhere. If it's free to that individual, someone else has to pay for it.

Even if I lived in a socialist country, I'd rather have a free $100k worth of other shit like a car and a jet ski than a free $100k medical operation when I'm old.

[Thraex]

Blow the lot on whiskey, whores and Wolverine comics.

Who wants to live to 70 only to face the struggle against cancer?

Same except at 70 I'd probably invest a bit of that money in viagra though.

[Electronic God-Man]

Who wants to live to 70 only to face the struggle against cancer?

I was assuming that the operation would just be an immediate solution to the cancer. No struggle involved.

[Falkata]

Why not just ensure you live in a country that gives free medical care to elderly? ;) One shouldn't have to worry about having money for operations at 70. That's totally ridiculous.

Free? :eek: In which country the medical care is free? The doctors work for free in the UK or it´s Gordon Brown who pays the bill?
In Spain the goverment steals 1/3 of our salary every month for the public health care and pensions, in concept of "Social Security" taxes :( I´d rather invest that money in private plans and buy whiskey with the rest of it.
Also when you buy tabacco, alcohol, fuel... the 90% of the price are taxes

[Grumpy Cat]

I'd pay off my student loan debt.

Then buy a sports car.

And yeah, health care is never free. In Canada, the tax on cigarettes goes towards health care. I smoke that means I pay for everyone's health care. Canadians should thank me. In fact, whenever my mother gets on my case about smoking, I remind her that my habit is paying her medical bills. Yup. Just doing a patriotic service for my fellow Canadians.

[Osweo]

Invest in bricks and mortar, as usual. I'd put it to my next house renovation project, pooling with my brother and mother. Time to get up that ladder: 'This time next year, Rodney, we'll be millionnaires!'

God knows what will happen in the future - and who trusts banks?!? And sports cars are no use to me - the roads to the sort of things I like to see aren't really fit for them! :p

[Óttar]

Supposing I had this to blow as "mad money" (maybe some of it would go to that operation, you have to invest in the future to be practical.) I'd do some carousing, about $300 to $600 worth, I'd buy some first editions of good comparative mythology, or medieval texts, I'd perfect Chinese and Persian (for business, or federal work), I'd do some immersion programs in Italy and Germany, I'd hop over to Greece, I'd do some long vacationing in India, I'd buy some friends drinks and take people out to dinner, I'd get a painting of one or a few Classical deities comissioned, I'd renovate my grandmother's house, and put it in a bank other than the one I'm in now.

And I'd buy a small zippy car.

[Baron Samedi]

I would totally spunk in the faces of hundreds of blonde women, and pay them after they have systematically been degraded to the T.

I love my fantasies.....

[Radojica]

I would spend it on women and booz, what else :shrug:?! I am not going to live long enough to get that cancer, anyway :P

[Lithium]

One small part of the money I will spend to visit Stonehenge and to complete my dream.. :D

[Liffrea]

If I live to see 70 (what’s that 2052) chances are most cancers will be manageable if not cured by then given the rate of progress.

What would I do….what I should have done when I was younger, less wise and had cash coming out of my orifices……invest it. Perhaps have my conscience surgically removed so I could kick people in the nuts and steal their money i.e. go into serious business and/or politics.

[Beorn]

I was assuming that the operation would just be an immediate solution to the cancer. No struggle involved.

Well..yeah, but it's Wolverine comics man. £100 thousand pounds worth of Wolverine comics. :cool:

[Murphy]

70 is a good age to die, so I'd spend the 100,000£ now. Maybe buy a small house with it.

[Eldritch]

I'll turn 70 in 2045, the Singularity will almost certainly have happened by then, which means (among many other things) that conventional medical care, and perhaps indeed conventional human physiology, will have become obsolete.

In other words, I'd spend the money now. ;)

[Liffrea]

Originally Posted by Aequoreus
70 is a good age to die

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[Monolith]

I'd use the money to make more money.

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[Monolith]

I'll turn 70 in 2045, the Singularity will almost certainly have happened by then, which means (among many other things) that conventional medical care, and perhaps indeed conventional human physiology, will have become obsolete.
Ah yes, the almighty Archailects will be taking care of us all by then. :P

[anonymaus]

Buy more land?

[Tabiti]

Just live healthy as possible - buy a land and build a farm, far away from the civilization and you won't get the cancer;)

[ironman]

$100,000 Dollars, that is roughly £67,500 English pounds, for me that is enough to pay off my mortgage, buy a new car and taking 2 months off work on holiday.
My dream trip was cancelled 6 years ago.
My holiday is touring the West coast of North America, flying to Seatle, then driving all the way down to San Diego
All the details of my trip are written down, just the money to finance it is needed.

[Aemma]

I'd pay off my student loan debt.

Then buy a sports car.

And yeah, health care is never free. In Canada, the tax on cigarettes goes towards health care. I smoke that means I pay for everyone's health care. Canadians should thank me. In fact, whenever my mother gets on my case about smoking, I remind her that my habit is paying her medical bills. Yup. Just doing a patriotic service for my fellow Canadians.

Thank you DR! ;)

I thank veterans and now I'll have to start thanking smokers. :P :D

[Eldritch]

Thank you DR! ;)

I thank veterans and now I'll have to start thanking smokers. :P :D

The taxman loves people who smoke and drink -- but not so much that they lose their ability to work. They pay taxes on their cigs and booze, as well their salaries, and then hopefully die off within a year of retiring.

[Osweo]

The taxman loves people who smoke and drink -- but not too so much that they lose their ability to work. They pay taxes on their cigs and booze, as well their salaries, and then hopefully die off within a year of retiring.

Wow, thanks, Eldritch! You've just given me a whole new patriotically glossed way of looking at my paternal Grandad! :D

Shame on me. :p

[ironman]

The taxman loves people who smoke and drink -- but not so much that they lose their ability to work. They pay taxes on their cigs and booze, as well their salaries, and then hopefully die off within a year of retiring.


2 weeks ago my boss came on our site, he gathered us guys round and told us some bad news concerning one of our work colleagues; He told us he was diagnosed as having an aggressive cancer in the brain, he was given less than a month to live.
Smoking and drinking was his passion, it kind of brings it home when you can see what some people are doing to themselves.

[Eldritch]

2 weeks ago my boss came on our site, he gathered us guys round and told us some bad news concerning one of our work colleagues; He told us he was diagnosed as having an aggressive cancer in the brain, he was given less than a month to live.
Smoking and drinking was his passion, it kind of brings it home when you can see what some people are doing to themselves.

I'm sorry to hear about your mate. Especially if he has a wife and children. :(

Although (and I'm not a doctor) afaIk smoking and/or drinking doesn't really increase your risk of brain cancer. Many other kinds of cancers, yes, but not brain tumors.

A friend of a friend recently boozed his way into hospital with a f***in' pancreatitis. He's only a few years older than I am (I'm 34) and already his liver and pancreas are irreparably destroyed. If he ever takes even a single drink again, it'll literally be his last.

[Bloodeagle]

100,000USD used in Alaska equals to about 70,000USD used in the lower 48. The first thing I would do is finish my house. Then I would pay off my student loans. Then lastly I would get my owed child support obligation down enough,"10,000" last I checked so I may get my passport and travel abroad. I would then travel to the United Kingdom travel the countryside by car then catch a cheap flight to Greece and visit with the significant others family. I think I could do all this for 100,000 USD:thumb001:

[Svanhild]

100.000€ don't earn enough interest to live from the monthly rates. So I'd buy me a nice apartment instead and invest the rest of the money as permanent investment in a bank while I work and go on as before.

[RoyBatty]

Scenario: Someone comes to you today and hands you $100k (or 100k Euros, or pounds). You are also informed that at age 70 you will get cancer, and will either need a $100k procedure or die within 6 months.

What would you do with the $100k?

A. Put it in the bank and save it for the procedure

B. Spend it on other stuff (house, car, jet ski, whatever)



I'd use it as part of a deposit on a house.

By the time I hit 70 I may as well die anyway so why use that hard to obtain money to make some quack / hospital rich?

[Monolith]

100.000€ don't earn enough interest to live from the monthly rates. So I'd buy me a nice apartment instead and invest the rest of the money as permanent investment in a bank while I work and go on as before.
Bond interest rates are usually higher than regular interest rates, i.e. those earned from depositing funds in a bank.

[RoyBatty]

100.000€ don't earn enough interest to live from the monthly rates. So I'd buy me a nice apartment instead and invest the rest of the money as permanent investment in a bank while I work and go on as before.

I wish apartments cost the same where I live as what they cost where you are :(

[Eldritch]

I wish apartments cost the same where I live as what they cost where you are :(

Same here. In Helsinki, 100,000€ will get you half a broom closet. :rolleyes:

[ironman]

I'd use it as part of a deposit on a house.


With $100,000 The obvious choice for younger person IMO would be to buy property, as everyone knows this is the time to buy.
In America right now you can buy a relatively big house with that Deposit.
Back in 1997 i bought my new 3 bedroom house for a little over £70,00
Today it is worth around £225,000 = $310,000........trust me buy property.

[Loddfafner]

I would invest in a few pounds of crack and not worry about hitting 70.

[RoyBatty]

With $100,000 The obvious choice for younger person IMO would be to buy property, as everyone knows this is the time to buy.
In America right now you can buy a relatively big house with that Deposit.
Back in 1997 i bought my new 3 bedroom house for a little over £70,00
Today it is worth around £225,000 = $310,000........trust me buy property.

I believe you. :)

[OneWolf]

Invest in a McDonalds and watch the money roll right in.;)

[SwordoftheVistula]

With $100,000 The obvious choice for younger person IMO would be to buy property, as everyone knows this is the time to buy.
In America right now you can buy a relatively big house with that Deposit.
Back in 1997 i bought my new 3 bedroom house for a little over £70,00
Today it is worth around £225,000 = $310,000........trust me buy property.

It depends.

The rise in property prices was because of central banks deliberately keeping the interest rates very low over a period of time. Property prices (in the US) have come down, but not nearly as much as they 'should' due to policies for the specific purpose of propping up property prices. If they ever pull the plug on this support, many people are going to be out of quite a bit of money.

On the other hand, it could be quite some time before this is allowed to happen, and at any rate you at least have something, a place to live, and in theory can hole up there with a gun should there ever be any major upheaval in society.