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Would you rather live 10 years longer or earn double your current salary?

Would you rather live 10 years longer or earn double your current salary?

  • Have a normal desk job that pays $50K/yr. Live a normal life.

  • Have a job that pays $100K/yr, but much more taxing on your body and likely to die earlier.

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KingstonU

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Trying not to get too specific but here is the scenario:

Option A: Have a normal desk job that pays, say $50K/year, and most likely live into your 80's.

Option B: Have a job that is much more taxing on your body, but pays double, so like $100K/year.

You are more likely to die earlier, say by 10 years so in your 70's, due to always working the majority of your days in environments of extreme cold/heat (-60'F to 122'F, or -50'C to 50'C), exposure to all the elements like rain/hail/snow/high humidity, breathing in dust, exposure to many chemicals, heavy lifting, using large & dangerous equipment (often in poor working condition) and often not having the healthiest food options.
 
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Double the salary. Fuck living longer, if I was to live to the age of my grandparents in the health they are, fine, but with my current health carrying to that old age 65 is about the highest I think I'll want to live.
 
What you forgot is the higher paying job comes with much better health care negating the increased risk factors that would have caused the lifespan to drop 10 years.
That and higher paying jobs tend to be easier on the body.
 
Matthiasa said:
What you forgot is the higher paying job comes with much better health care negating the increased risk factors that would have caused the lifespan to drop 10 years.
That and higher paying jobs tend to be easier on the body.
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Assume that none of these apply here.
 
10 good years? Sure, I'd give up the money. 10 years of terrible health and just being alive? I'd take the money and die early.
 
Looks like I'm the only one so far to go for the long life.

Money means little to me, as long as I have enough to live then I'm happy, I'd hate to work as much as some jobs require, the money isn't worth my time.
 
Im pretty sure medical care can keep us alive for another 10 years if we had enough money, and Im pretty sure well have better tech in the next 50 years to keep us alive even longer whether we want it or not.
 
Live longer. A job is just a job, money is just money. I rather retire and have more life ahead of me instead of retire and die. That said, if I'm going to be in an old age home for 10 years, then yeah, remove those years and give me a better salary.
 
You shouldn't have put numbers into this poll. It fucks it all up. You got 4K/year people saying hell yeah 50k and long life. Any minute you're gonna have 250k/yr in their sleep people saying wtf why would I take a pay cut?

Anyway, I'd take 'double my salary' because 70-80 doesn't look like a picnic from what I've seen.
 
are you nucking futs? 10 years longer, definitely. i could not care less about more money for reduced quality of life
 
Option A. I rather live like a bum, as long as I can witness the next magical iProduct from Apple. $50K is icing on cake.
 
The last few years of your life sucks anyway plus with more money = a better life and rewards so you actually would have more fun then a lower paying job.
 
I bet most that are taking the money don't have kids. Give me another 10 years to spend with mine and hopefully watch my grandkids grow up. No amount of money is worth giving that up.
 
Theres a movie coming out next year that sorts of has people paying for things with time on/off their life...
 
Definitely 10 more years. 50k is more than 3 times what I live on at the moment. I used to make $49,500 when I was still teaching full time in the early 90s and lived very comfortably.
 
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