When will Mr Beast make a YouTube video of this challenge?
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2025
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Didn't say no Typewriter
Or paint.
I'd sleep (and Ditto bellow)
I would just goon the whole year
I don't think I would even be sane enough to spend the money if I got out
Why go out ? I would buy the place and stay there so everyone can fuck off.
what if you get bored
If I get bored I go to sleep. Sleep all year, free food, can do pushups, learn to whistle, yoga training, imagine you have a piano and practice piano in mind, play chess in mind, invent fucking game rpg story and characters. That's from top of my head, not sure if I can manage to do this in a year, need more time.
If I were to do something so ridiculous for a full year for the full amount, I wouldn't be doing it for me. There's no way I would be able to spend 10Bn in my lifetime on things for me and my immediate family. I don't think that's even possible unless we were literally flushing money down the toilet, burning it, or throwing pallets of $100s from a plane while flying over a populated area.
I would use the 10Bn to create things like scholarship funds for colleges, where the only requirement is that you can prove you don't come from money (and can afford whatever education you want without help).
I would also be donating large amounts to charities and good causes, especially FOSS and things like the Internet archive.
Above and beyond that, I'd likely use my newfound wealth to create a company that builds open source or modular hardware for things currently dominated by big tech. Like mobile phones, specifically Android phones, and supporting companies doing similar work like framework.
I would only take enough to pay off my house, all debts, and for a savings/income fund so that I can live comfortably for the rest of my life without needing to work, both for myself, my spouse, and some members of my immediate family.
While in the box, I would let me ADHD brain wander endlessly and entertain itself, until it gets bored or tired, then sleep and repeat that 365 times.
i mean, a year is absurd, and that amount of money is meaningless.
how about i just stay in for a day and get 82million instead
vsauce did something like this for 3 days and he nearly lost his mind. i think 2 days max is all us regular people can do
Yeah, the arbitrary cash amounts in these would you memes are always a little goofy, as if the creator thinks 30-billion is so high that anyone seeing it will start screaming "YAAASSSS GIRL!!" no matter what the challenge. 100-million would be just as effective to the average person. Maybe even 10-million if your wealth aspirations are not to buy a golden palace with twelve Lamborghinis and a rocket pad.
30 billion made me instantly go yes. I would be morally obligated to do it.
I'm with you. A day or two at most is all I would need to be set for life for anything I would ever want.
I like fancy tech, so I might stick around for a second or third day because fancy tech isn't cheap.
People in my field refer to it as "backing up the money dump truck to (vendor) HQ" ... Just to give some context.
how insidious a trap, thinking like that. you may find yourself stuck there for the year after all! /s
My plan for getting thrown into iso for whatever reason is to paint the sacred geometries in blood so idk that I'm a whole lot better.
Well I have maladaptive daydreaming and I think that would be mostly enough to keep me sane for a little bit.
I've seen VSauce's video where Michael does this for like, what, three days? And he's basically lost it by the end. So while this is tempting, no, I can't do it.
At least you wouldn't be alone - hat man is with you 🖤
If I survived the year, then spent the next year with $500k worth of therapy to become semi-normalish again, I'm still left with $29.9995 billion dollars. Hell yeah I'll do it.
If the year in solitary confinement doesn't turn you into a psychopath the $30 billion will!
I'd be willing to linearly downscale.
I am sure that for me 3 Million is more than i could ever reasonably spend for the rest of my life.
So with 8760 hours in a year, that would be like 53 Minutes. You know what, make it a full hour.
Came here to say that. 30 billion is a stupid amount of money. If down scaling is an option, anyone who considers doing it for a year (for personally owning all the money) is mentally ill.
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I think this is one of those things where it seems totally fine to you but in reality it activates some kind of intrinsic biological limit that you aren't even aware of. I FEEL like I would easily conquer the nothing box by just doing a lot of great thinking. But scientifically, I kind of doubt that I really could. It's like if someone challenged me to eat only celery for a year. I might have the willpower to do it, but biologically I may just die. Now I don't think the nothing box would kill me, but I can imagine it making people go crazy for sure.
You're right, you'd go crazy, check out this vid of VSauce doing it for three days. https://youtu.be/iqKdEhx-dD4
solitary confinement is recognized as torture, and that's probably for a good reason. I've also had personal experience in psychiatric hospitals with people who had to be confined, and while their being there is probably due to every available professional being entirely hopeless with them, the confinement definitely doesn't help the situation. even the ex-director of the NIMH, thomas insel, finds in "healing: our path from mental illness to mental health" that a lot of mental healthcare is actually social and communal care, not cold hard medicine. where medicines fail, you can still treat a patient with kindness and patience, integrate them into their community, make friends, have good daily experiences. you can still give them a human touch. all that heals people to some extent, and solitary confinement is exactly the opposite of it.
1 year and your insane
Or
Waste your whole life working towards 0.001% of that.
If I can write a will beforehand for who gets it then it’s worth it.
I know we have a decent amount of science pointing to this breaking the mind, but I can't help but wonder if anything would change knowing an unimaginably great prize was waiting on the other side. How long would it take to count to 30 billion...
Counting to 30,000,000,000 would take more than a year.
Not counting the amount of times you lose track of the number you were in and have to restart at some checkpoint
$951.29/s
Of all the ways to get 30 billion dollars, this would probably be the least emotionally disturbing choice.
Only ethical billionaire
Of course they'd be a fucking nutter once released
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One year in that room would make anyone go crazy enough to not enjoy the money when they get out
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What about the toilet facilities (or lack there of)?
I like that Lemmy's first thought is pro-rated payments, and yes, it really does show how much money 30 billion is when you can make millions in an hour. My first thought was, I think I could actually pull out off for the full year.
Most people need some kind of social interaction, including folks with conditions that make that hard. I'm probably not an exception to that but I have learned ways to pass full days of time just story developing and singing and such. Creating characters also helps ward the loneliness, although I think the hardest part is being unable to actually write anything down. I could easily do a year if I had enough paper and a way to draw or write.
Here's an easy way to kill time: try counting and see how close you can get to 30 billion
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