Would You Rather

For those who take it, for what amount would you not take it

100%. I'll take my chances with the mostly empty ocean for a few years over dealing with capitalism trying to kill me for 40+ more years for the crime of being poor.

So you're absolutely going to be killed after you are teleported into a statistically likely depth that has enormous water pressure.

Into a random part of the ocean, you say?

Does into include the bottom of the Mariana Trench, perhaps?

If so... my answer is nope.

Fuck. Yes.

Random part sounds like the monkey's paw part to me. Random spot on the surface, not bad. Random part including underwater? Sure, you can hold your breath, but there could be a large pressure differential. Your ears word also suffer. I don't think that's long enough to risk the bends etc but there's a lot more depth than there is surface.

100 million can pay for medics to be on stand by for 5 years at the return location just in case something happens.

Wait, do you get paid immediately? Or do you get paid when your ocean tour concludes on the 1825th day?

Because it would be tedious as fuck to have to still work every day during that time while enduring daily ocean trauma (and potentially have an unrelated accident and subsequently invalidate all my effort up to that point).

Also, like some other people mentioned: is it a random part of the ocean in a survivable area? I imagine this would strictly mean the surface of the ocean wherever you end up. Certain depths would be instant death and I don’t know how the physics work with teleporting from deep ocean back to the surface, but I assume it’s the perfect recipe for spontaneously contracting the bends

Free vacations? Fuck yea!

Take it. No question. Trades every other insecurity for just one somewhat predictable event.

Isn't the vast majority of the open ocean effectively lifeless? 9/10 times you'd probably not even be within a mile of anything bigger than plankton.

Sure! Set it for first thing in the morning. It'll wake me up better than any alarm and I can wash off the sea water and start my day!

Sounds kind of easy with the thermal suit involved

The critical thing is that you get to choose the time. So you simply schedule it for just before you get in the shower every day.

Close your eyes and hold your breath, quick 30 seconds plunge, return to find yourself in the shower so everything gets washed away. There are people with too much money, who'd pay for that kind of thing. Much of the ocean is completely empty anyway.

Or (and this is a bit dark) you donate 49.5 million to charity, take the 50 skip days immediately, have a very nice holiday with the 500k, then kill yourself on day 51 safe in the knowledge you've left a lasting legacy and done more to help others than most could ever hope to. Probably be able to cram a better life in those 50 days than many will be able to fit in 50 years too.

Mr. Beast: Taking notes.

I'm thalassophobic, would 100% have a heart attack and die day one. This is essentially asking if I would trade my life for $100,000,000 to donate to whatever charities I want.

Deal

Take the deal. Donate almost all of the money to good causes because $100 million is far more than necessary to live a no-worries (money) life.

Even if I die in the ocean, I will die knowing that I did good in this life.

Actually, I set it for the time I want to go to sleep, and then I have an amazing relaxation ritual every night. Can I renew for 5 more years?

Edit: Or choose whenever the middle of the night in the Pacific is, so you have the statistically best chance of the best view of the night sky.

No one's talking about popping up in a North Sea storm or teleporting into Cape Horn or the Antarctic Sea. I'd be practicing holding my breath under punishing circumstances. But yes, I'd go for it in a second.

You could easily make enough money to support yourself just on gambling whether you live or die! Imagine a show where Shalafi disappears for 30-seconds, pops back in and gets interviewed. People would watch that like clockwork.

Compromise. I'll take 50 million and we skip the ocean. Make it a bathtub.