Ask Lemmy

Not ask the internet what I would do – revealing that I’ve found an infinite money glitch.

Shut up and tell absofukinglutely no one about it, then I would work out a way to secretly siphon it off to people I like.

One guy already found this hack and created a shitty “AI” company

I'd spawn a million tons of cash above every single capitalist's house and let them be suffocated to death by the thing they love most

Tell no one, live in my tiny house, buy high quality jeans, travel a lot by myself, get a library's worth of books, and make art/video games all day.

• Tell absolutely no one.
• Helping the people who did help me when I was in need of help.
• Live an simple, boring life.
• Continue studying what I like (I love learning).

Plant crops, sell crops and hold some back to plant next year’s crop.

Real-life infinite money/duplication glitch.

Well maybe it's too boring and obvious, but... Seize the means of production, distribute equal shares of its ownership to everyone, design a democratic process to decide what should come next.

Build and buy media networks and hire the best investigative journalists. Back centre-left political parties worldwide and back unions and backstop strike funds until the whole world strikes like the French. Fund electrified mass transit, renewable energy and passivehouse construction and urban controlled-environment agriculture. Fund orphanages, school food programs and poverty alleviation and social justice causes.

I'd also start an eco-religion whose funding goes to a land trust that buys important and sensitive lands to return to wilderness and 50% can be lightly used by humans as national parks and 50% is forbidden for humans at all. Church of Gaia. The church would have monks who work as rangers/land defenders to enforce the holy order.

I would live a quiet simple life in a relatively modest but comfortable passive house on a permaculture farm. My "car" would be a selection of percheron horses and a small selection of carriage/wagons.

My wallet never would be empty, but just enough to buy a drink or a meal when need it

If we had lots of time, then it's easy. Just buy total market index funds and sit and wait. This is why vampires are usually rich. If you've lived that long, and you're not rich, you're doing something wrong.

$2 at 7% a year for 50 years = $58.91

$2 at 7% a year, for 500 years = $1,505,863.24

The power of compound interest!

Continue doing what I love without having to worry about money being an issue

People have found these and gotten arrested over exploiting them, let's be real

Duplicate money.

Yes, it has happened to me.

I had put my money into the ticket vending machine on the train platform. The ticket came out, but the machine could not cut off the paper properly. Well, not too serious, I could live with that ticket that was looking just a little bit crumpled. After several seconds, an error message appeared on the screen. Then the machine decided to give me my money back. So I had both: my ticket and my money.

I liked that so much that I tried it again, and it gave exactly the same result again.

I could probably have repeated it for hours, but then my train appeared. :-)

Really? Keep it so quiet.

Would do the things to the house that we say we'd do if we had all the money. But not more. Get the car my husband wants, but with a loan so it's not so obvious. I don't need one. Start putting the max into the retirement accounts and pull an extra couple thousand to pay for stuff each month.

I feel like this would basically need to be laundered like crime money, if we wanted to do more with it, even good things. Would think on it, but without a way to do that I would just use it.

Everyone's kickstarter will meet every goal. All of them. Even the bad ideas. 😈

I'd sell an e-book about this glitch on Amazon and generate passive income!

Destroy capitalism.

Outbid the car/weapons lobby and errect an eco-social government >:) Watch out, we'll support your purchase of an electric car and reinstate the Vegane Wurst!!!!

If I had infinite money, I would create Medicare for All as a private company.

It'd be like shooting all the healthcare CEOs at once.

Immediately not trust it and assume I'm too stupid or ignorant to see what the flaw in the system is.

And next I'd be worried that, flaw or not, the authorities might find out about it, because that would almost certainly not end well.

Even if there's truly a way to get something for nothing, someone else will find a way to take it away.

I’d spawn a few million euros for myself and never worry about finances ever again. Ruining the world economy with hyperinflation isn’t in my interest, nor would I have any use for more money than that.

donate to wikipedia and fsf first and then get a beer

Use it sparingly, to avoid causing massive inflation as everyone realises the money supply is fucked.

Look, I like chaos as much as the next guy, but blowing up the entire global economy is a step too far. And I could do a lot of good with a few billion that I can actually spend.

Unless this means infinite actual value instead of infinite imaginary currency, in which case I guess I ascend everyone and everything into some kind of godhood, because that implies I can.

Keep it to myself and fund projects I like (under the assumption that I could get a million € per h for example)

Probably cause mass inflation and a return to bartering.

Hack the planet!

Something terrible.

fund research in high density cities with good public trans. don't pay high but comes with housing, education, food, and other various perks. The housing and research institutes will have no parking.

Mass duplicate rare earth metals at a rate that would crash economies and make white goods and alternative energy sources actually cheaper than fossil fuels.

Then while the world's having an absolute fit trying to recover from that, I'd find a way to duplicate expensive and hard to make medicine till it's functionally worth less than the packaging it comes in.

House with a yard. One of the rooms is a sensory room. Quietly donate to causes of marginalized folks. Continue going to work.

Keep it a secret, give some money to those in need, and go see as many movies as I want without worrying about money