Would You Rather Get $1,000,000 Right Now

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Nick Huber @sweatystartup Replying to @ParikPatelCFA and @profitwithant You don't understand scale. Use $50 to buy 10 tomato plants. In 6 months you have 250 tomatoes. Plant those into 250 plants. 6 months you have 6,250 plants. Plant them. 6 months you have 156k tomatoes. Plant them. 6 mo you have 3.9MM tomatoes. Sell them for $1 each.

Lyle (not Kyle) McKeany @lylemckeany Would you rather get paid $1,000,000 right now or be able to eat nature valley granola bars without them crumbling all over the damn place every time you take a bite out of them? 11:35 AM · Jun 17, 2021 · Twitter Web App

Max Gulker ... @maxg_econ Would you rather get paid $0 now or a million per month for the rest of your life? Do you have to do anything? Of course not! Do you think I don't love you and I'm that selfish? I mean a phone call would be nice every now and then... That's what passive-aggressive income is. 8:36 AM · Jun 17, 2021 · Twitter Web App

shivu ... @FKAshiv Would you rather get paid $1,000,000 right now or just get the absolute s--- kicked out of you for an hour. I'll take Option B. That's what a real HUSTLER would do. Find a way to take the pain from the ass kicking and channel that into success,that's called entrepreneurship. 3:10 PM · Jun 16, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone

Peter G Schmidt @17000Credits Would you rather get paid $1,000,000 right now or be strapped into a cannon and shot into the Sun? 10:06 PM · Jun 16, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone

davis ... @basedkarbon Would you rather get paid $990,900,000,000 right now or 15 cents every month for the rest of your life? I'll take Option B. That's what passive income is. Find a way to make passive income, it'll change your life. 8:45 AM · Jun 16, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone

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Would You Rather Get $1,000,000 Right Now refers to a snowclone that grew popular on Twitter in June of 2021 parodying a tweet from a person that argued they would rather take $50 a month over $1 million right now. The tweet, intended to argue in favor of "passive income," was parodied in numerous ways as people rewrote the tweet with humorous options.

Origin

On June 15th, 2021, Twitter user @profitwithant^[1] tweeted, "Would you rather get paid $1,000,000 right now or $50 every month for the rest of your life? I’ll take Option B. That’s what passive income is. Find a way to make passive income, it’ll change your life." The tweet was ratio'd, gaining over 8,400 quote-tweets next to 2,400 likes (shown below).

Side Hustle King ... @profitwithant Would you rather get paid $1,000,000 right now or $50 every month for the rest of your life? I'll take Option B. That's what passive income is. Find a way to make passive income, it'll change your life. 9:10 PM · Jun 15, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone

@profitwithant later acknowledged that they'd made a typo^[2] and did not mean to type $50 a month, as it would take someone 1,666 years to make $1 million at $50 a month.

Spread

The tweet spread through Twitter as people mocked the question. User @badabacus^[3] tweeted, "beginning to think that hashtag grind hashtag hustle twitter might not be giving the best personal finance advice" (shown below, left). Others made jokes by turning the tweet into a snowclone presenting two very different financial choices. For example, user @drakegatsby^[4] joked, "Would you rather get paid $1,000,000 right now or pay somebody $10 a day to wake you up by punching you in the face? I’ll take Option B. It keeps you motivated to go out and EARN. That’s the hustler mentality," gaining over 400 retweets and 6,000 likes (shown below, right).

justin E ... @badabacus beginning to think that hashtag grind hashtag hustle twitter might not be giving the best personal finance advice Side Hustle King Š @profitwithant · Jun 15 Would you rather get paid $1,000,000 right now or $50 every month for the rest of your life? I'll take Option B. That's what passive income is. Find a way to make passive income, it'll change your life. Show this thread 8:33 PM · Jun 16, 2021 · Twitter Web App

jon drake @DrakeGatsby ... Would you rather get paid $1,000,000 right now or pay somebody $10 a day to wake you up by punching you in the face? I'll take Option B. It keeps you motivated to go out and EARN. That's the hustler mentality 1:53 PM · Jun 16, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone

Other posts created outlandish scenarios for option B. For example, user @ursa_demented^[7] tweeted, "Would you rather get paid $1,000,000 right now or have a family of crows befriend you and sometimes give you small trinkets for the rest of your/their lives?", gaining over 50 retweets and 800 likes (shown below, left). While the snowclone spread, users noticed that a reply to the original post by @sweatystartup^[5] seemed to sincerely pick the $50 per month option (shown below, right). He later clarified the post was a joke after many users mocked it.^[6]

Ursa Demented ... @ursa_demented Would you rather get paid $1,000,000 right now or have a family of crows befriend you and sometimes give you small trinkets for the rest of your/their lives? 3:33 PM · Jun 16, 2021 · Twitter Web App

Nick Huber ... @sweatystartup Replying to @profitwithant B all day. What people don't understand is 1/2 that million will be paid in taxes. $50 a month can be used to pay my cell phone bill, which id use to make more $. Or my internet bill which I'd use to get smarter and make more $. Or rent a power washer each mo to make more $. 9:32 AM - Jun 16, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone

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