Re:Is it still possible to get away with a heist?
by ryandrake on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @10:08AM
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Let's take an alternate example, where there's no crime committed: I win $100MM in the lottery. That I can speak to without playing devil's advocate. You can see my answers are roughly the same:
> How would you have any confidence in yourself in your ability to make it on your own?
Doesn't matter. I don't need to make it on my own. I have $100MM. Having to "make it on your own" is a bummer. A sudden $100MM gives you the freedom to choose not to have to make it on your own.
> How could you help but wonder if you'd be able to live by way of producing or providing something of value the way honest people do?
Doesn't matter. I will never have to produce something or provide value. See above. If I wanted to, as a fun side project, try to produce something of value, I now have the freedom to try and risk failure, so I'm in a much better position than I was before.
> What would happen to your curiosity about the world? There would be whole swaths of things that would be mentally off-limits
I don't think there's much of the world that's off-limits with a stack of money $100MM tall.
> Where are you going to go where you won't have to weave a web of lies about where you got your money from?
I don't have to explain my wealth to anyone. I can tell nosey people that I won the lottery and that's that. Or I am free to tell them to mind their own business. Or I can tell them that I have a 9-5 job at the phone company.
> How would you have any confidence in yourself in your ability to make it on your own?
Doesn't matter. I don't need to make it on my own. I have $100MM. Having to "make it on your own" is a bummer. A sudden $100MM gives you the freedom to choose not to have to make it on your own.
> How could you help but wonder if you'd be able to live by way of producing or providing something of value the way honest people do?
Doesn't matter. I will never have to produce something or provide value. See above. If I wanted to, as a fun side project, try to produce something of value, I now have the freedom to try and risk failure, so I'm in a much better position than I was before.
> What would happen to your curiosity about the world? There would be whole swaths of things that would be mentally off-limits
I don't think there's much of the world that's off-limits with a stack of money $100MM tall.
> Where are you going to go where you won't have to weave a web of lies about where you got your money from?
I don't have to explain my wealth to anyone. I can tell nosey people that I won the lottery and that's that. Or I am free to tell them to mind their own business. Or I can tell them that I have a 9-5 job at the phone company.