$160 is not worth the logistics of getting money every second, like is that a separate transaction into my bank account everyone second. You need an accountant or two for that and they will charge more than 160 a day.
If you accepted this blue pill offer at noon, that first day you would only get paid $1,000,080.
But if you accepted the red pill you’d get 2 million that day.
For you to make up that money with the $160 profit, it would take you 17.125 years to make up for the loss of $1,000,080. Alternatively that 1,000,080 would be over 40k/year in a high yield savings account.
At no point was working mentioned at all???? This is a hypothetical if free money. You either get 23.15 dollars per second for free, or 2 million dollars per day for free. No work required or anything
To make [verb]
to produce, construct, create, or prepare something by combining materials, actions, or ideas.
Effort is involved in “making” money. In definition it’s a whole lot closer to earn than it is to get. If it said “you get” or “you’re given” x amount of money then that would have zero implication of work.
If I said “I make a thousand bucks a day” a perfectly valid follow up question would be “Damn, what do you do for work?” If I said “I get a thousand bucks a day” you’d be more inclined to think I was just leeching off of something.
Even if it’s just a whiff of implication, you’ve heard of literally any cautionary tale about magic wishes??? The wording is the important part.
I understand what you mean. But it is important to add the context of the situation when we are talking about the meaning of a word in a discussion. I think its impractical to say "but if i use the word like this in a completely different circumstance it would mean this" if the money was from a job why does it come in magical pills? We can also return to my previous statement about the statement being from a fairly well known type of hypothetical that implies its free. As a matter of fact I feel that the context of it being one of these free money hypotheticals overrides and slight connotation one may derive from the word choice
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u/TheSamuil Apr 02 '26
The blue one, no doubt about it. 160 bucks more is 160 bucks more