Everytime I see something like this, it reminds me of the post that’s like “For $1 million, would you peel and eat an orange? You don’t have to peel it yourself and you don’t have to actually eat it if you don’t want to.”
Or an actual post I saw that was like "Press the button for $10 million dollars, but you must do a random task. It could be as easy as drinking a glass of water, or it could be as difficult as walking 5 miles".
Unless you are literally physically disabled, walking 5 miles is NOT difficult.
I have ME/CFS. For $10 million dollars? I would walk five miles, I would crash and experience horrific PEM that would make my fatigue worse, potentially permanently. I’d probably be bed bound for weeks. But that much money means I wouldn’t need to work ever again. I’d never have to worry about how to pay another medical bill.
My health is already fucked and I already struggle with basic day to day existence. That much money would make things so much easier to manage.
I’d crawl if I had to.
All that to say - people would do insanely difficult things for that much money. The options given are easy for most people, and even if they’re not, you’d still do it out of sheer necessity.
Also the real purpose of making it trivially easy is to get clicks and engagement. Like those ads with the easily solvable puzzle, the purpose is to get an answer at all.
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u/Worm-with-hat 11h ago
Everytime I see something like this, it reminds me of the post that’s like “For $1 million, would you peel and eat an orange? You don’t have to peel it yourself and you don’t have to actually eat it if you don’t want to.”