The $101,000 Briefcase: Keep or give away?

[Fritzo]

I would keep it. Thats life changing money and I need it too.

Where does it stop? Instead of money, what if they start doing this stuff with food or organs?

 

[yinan]

I still want them to come out with a show where inmates with multiple life sentences fight to the death, and the winner gets a small black and white TV for their cell.

 

[madoka]

Here's the commercial explaining how the show works and revealing the twists at the end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH6rt4y5Xmw

 

[Ken g6]

Prisoner's Dilemma: The Show.

That's closer to what I thought the show was, and what it should have been. It should be two families, each of which gets a briefcase full of money, each of which is given the chance to give some or all away to another family. But what they don't know is that each one is the other's "other family". So (in most cases) they both give all their money away, and they both get all the money they were offered.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Cracked did a pretty good writeup about exploitation TV just the other day. They mentioned this particular show. It sounds like an awful idea. It would only work with Richard Dawson as the host, like Running Man.

 

[purbeast0]

i'd keep it.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

give them the briefcase. keep the cash. everyone wins

 

[TwiceOver]

Pay off mortgage, someone else can have the rest.

Living completely debt free would be awesome. So close...

 

[Cappuccino]

A no brainer? The family given the briefcase of cash has to decide whether to keep the cash or share it with the other family is there a catch? I never heard of the series let alone the rules.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Clearly the only responsible solution is to take the briefcase and beat the show's producers to death with it because every part of this is morally reprehensible. And then buy a Corvette, cause fuck it.

 

[Captante]

Keeping it. Sorry.

 

[darkewaffle]

Hahaha man that is horribly brilliant.

 

[madoka]

While I haven't watched the show, nor do I care to, I gleamed how it operates. The rules of the show are:

1. A needy family is given a briefcase with $101,000.

2. $1,000 is to be immediately spent solely on themselves.

3. The family is informed of another needy family also desperate for the money.

4. The family learns more about the other family throughout the course of the show and gets to visit their unoccupied home.

5. The first family is told that they can share however much of their money they want to with the other family.

6. After the decision is made, they meet the other family in person.

Then the plot twists happen.

 

[irishScott]

Given that I'm pretty well-off, damn straight I'd give it someone who needed it more. The most I'd do with $101,000 is buy a few expensive toys and invest the rest.

 

[purbeast0]

Given that I'm pretty well-off, damn straight I'd give it someone who needed it more. The most I'd do with $101,000 is buy a few expensive toys and invest the rest.

there is always someone who is going to "need it more than you do" with everything you do in life.

need a new car? what about carless jane who has to talk 4 miles to and from work in the rain who makes $5/hr. she needs a car more!

need to upgrade that PC? what about bob who is schitzo and needs money to pay his doctor for the time he spends harassing him while he is trying to enjoy a family vacation? WHAT ABOUT BOB?

 

[madoka]

Given that I'm pretty well-off, damn straight I'd give it someone who needed it more. The most I'd do with $101,000 is buy a few expensive toys and invest the rest.

How about a more difficult question?

If the only person you could give the money to was Tridentboy, would you?

Certainly he needs it more than you (whether he realizes it or not). But he's also likely to squander it on fancy trash cans and such.

 

[Imported]

Keep it. 101k is half of a down payment on a house here.

 

[John Connor]

I'd keep the money, next day split it with the other family.

 

[nageov3t]

one of those families was $400k in debt... don't think I could justify giving them a dime if they had such an inability to manage their money in the first place (or maybe, give them a couple thousands dollars to take a class in budgeting and to hire a bankruptcy attorney)

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I wish they would pick me for the show. As soon as they ask me if I want to give up the money, I'd have a driver show up and pick me up to catch my flight to Italy.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

one of those families was $400k in debt... don't think I could justify giving them a dime if they had such an inability to manage their money in the first place (or maybe, give them a couple thousands dollars to take a class in budgeting and to hire a bankruptcy attorney)

How do you get $400k in debt? That's just mind-boggling.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

How do you get $400k in debt? That's just mind-boggling.

House, cars.

 

[MongGrel]

television is one big heap of shit.

it should be nuked from orbit.

+10

 

[MongGrel]

Clearly the only responsible solution is to take the briefcase and beat the show's producers to death with it because every part of this is morally reprehensible. And then buy a Corvette, cause fuck it.

+100

 

[rga]

I want to say that I'd give some of it away, but I think I'd just be saying that because it seems like the right thing to say.

I would keep it.