Risk too high for reward. Maybe with water? Definitely would need an emergency end to the whole thing.
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I know how this one went....
Think I'll pass!
I don't understand Sadam's strategy with that hole. Was he planning on living there the rest of his life, or was he thinking the USA would get tired of looking for him and move on?
I have no idea, but I assume it was a last-ditch effort to avoid getting capped. Excellent meme though.
Spider hole!
No, I would die of being panic long before being dig up.
Inb4 this is a MrBeast staff looking for ideas...
With how shitty my job is, I'd do this in heart beat. Just suffer for 48 hours and I'm well off for the rest of my life. I'll prob still need to work but I could buy a house and all. The just work same shitty job to just pay the bills. Or since I'll have some cushion, I could try and look for other jobs.
Sign me up.
I'd do it too. Here I am working my ass off for the next 30 years to save maybe $1m for retirement and someone's willing to just give it to me after 48hrs of suffering? No brainer. I'd ask questions about the plan to keep it safe of course, but if I was satisfied that they knew what they were doing, I'd do it no question. I'm surprised that most are saying no to this. I mean shit, at least try.
Could I hire a guy and pay him 48 hours of minimum wage to lay in the coffin for me and then collect the million dollars at the end? I think I just invented capitalism.
You mean 48 hours of peace and quite AND I get a million‽ sigh me the fuck up.
That's what I was thinking. Like, I have kids and a high stress job. This sounds like a vacation.
48 hours without water? Absolutely not. There is a high probability of exiting a cripple or dead, at least for me. Not to mention my medicine.
Just drink a lot before and you'd be good to go IMO
Edit: at a normal temperature of course.
OP said no diaper, which means you are pissing and shitting yourself, and you'll be soaking in it at ground temperature, around 55f. Might be a tad uncomfortable, lol.
Unless you are God-tier at holding it....
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Some magician tried this at a local children's theme park when I was a kid. If I remember correctly, he was supposed to escape or something. He miscalculated the weight of the soil and was crushed to death.
If there isn't enough room to roll around, it's going to be essentially impossible for a diabetic to administer what they need.
Can I do it again later if I need another million?
Very much no. I wouldn't last an hour, let alone 48 and if I did I would be fucked up for life.
3 days poopless 2.0?
48/24 =/= 3
Ever been to a multi-day music festival?
Usually I don’t have a problem with narrow spaces, but being unable to move at all is a deal breaker for me. I feel like that would be seriously painful after a few hours, mentally AND physically.
I'm visualizing the experience, sitting in a 10'x12' room, and totally unconstrained. Just that makes me feel anxious.
I think that I'd have a mental break in less than a day. Probably in less than a few hours.
I couldn't do it.
Nice try. I’d like a restraining order now, and stay within my line of sight please.
So what you're saying is, would I lie in my own waste in the dark for 2 days tops for
maths
60+ years worth of my current wage? I'll go in right now
I'd drink water until I was ready to explode, jump in that thing with an evil laugh and a wink, then emerge two days later as the world's most pee-drenched millionaire.
Is it a comfortable coffin? And can I wear fake fangs and pretend I'm doing vampire cosplay?
I feel like $1 million is more than enough to pay for any therapy necessary to patch up any possible resulting breaks in my psyche with plenty to spare.
I'm pretty sure many years worth of my salary for 48 hours of extreme stress is worth it given parenthood and career already yield moderate to high stress regularly; investing the $1 million well could push up retirement quite a bit.
Plus, let's be real - I get at least some legit rest in there.
Just 48 hours or a MILLION? Yes. YES. Sign me up! 100%!
Never mind the issues with dehydration, I could not be alone with my thoughts for that long.
Nah. I wouldn't be able to enjoy the money dealing with the ptsd this would likely cause.
I would. It would be the worst 48 hours of my life especially since I'm claustrophobic but 48 hours are really not that long in the grand scheme of things. Better than working for 15+ years for the same amount.
In certain circumstances 10 seconds can be an eternity.
It can feel like an eternity in the moment, but it's still just ten seconds.
Which matters more in this scenario, actual reality or your perception of it?
I've tripped balls where the concept of time was torn asunder. Wasn't a great time, but time still passed by, and my mind didn't "break" or whatever it is people believe will happen.
You can't actually experience a lifetime in those moments of eternity.
There are absolutely experiences that will permanently traumatize a human mind which take less than 10 seconds.
The circumstances described by the OP are worse than you think. Minutes would be fine, hours would progress from misery to torture fairly quickly. Those of us saying it’s not worth it aren’t saying it because we don’t want a million bucks, we just value our sanity and understand how life-ruiningly horrible it would be.
You're just asserting things without evidence or reason.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/donald-o-hebb-effects-extreme-isolation/
Most people in voluntary isolation (with sensory deprivation too!) will quit after a couple of days. I don't know what $20 a day amounts to in today's money, but it ain't a million.
Well, in your study they still got to eat, drink, and walk to the bathroom. They had rooms, beds, and tables, and they were fed by humans. They could stop at any time. OP’s scenario has none of that; you’re in an uncomfortable wooden box with no room to move for 48 hours.
I couldn’t find any studies that extreme, and maybe you’re right that it might be tolerable for some, but I’m pretty sure I’d come out of that box broken in a bad way.
They were sensory deprived to an extreme extent. It doesn't matter that there are people around if you can't see them, can't hear them, can't feel them. You're severely downplaying the effect of that to make the box seem worse.
In the box, you can stimulate your hearing so you won't get auditory hallucinations. You can also feel things and tap the side of the box, etc. I assume it's dark, so you may get some visual hallucinations. I'm not sure how darkness affects that. It's manageable, though.
Isolation is torture when it's a very long or even indeterminate duration. Two days is a duration that most people can endure, as per the experiment. You know that going in and can prepare yourself mentally.
I've endured severe pain, I've endured panic attacks, and I've endured bad trips without time and a fractured reality. I don't know what kind of life you've led, but my experience tells me that while two days in a box is absolutely going to be a miserable experience, it will quickly be forgotten.
Edit: And with a million bucks, I can pay for a good therapist, which I need regardless.
A million bucks wouldn't even cover the average home in my city. No deal.
If no animals/bugs can get in, I'm allowed enough room to roll around and I have a phone with hours of downloaded content and a power bank I'm all set
He said no cell phone, so you're just alone with your thoughts.
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