Which one would you choose?

[Thomas Kievit]

Imagen this : you're a candidate for a television program where you can win money. You're on stage and in front of you there's a desk with 2 buttons on it.

If you press the left button, you will get 1 million dollar instantly. If you press the right button, you have 50 % change to win 100 million dollar.

Which one would you choose?

 

[Gorn]

A guaranteed million or a 50/50 shot for a hundred million? Left button all day long. The probability of getting nothing is too high.

 

[Luke19Boarder]

Yeah I'll take the guaranteed money for sure.

 

[ZenG]

I'm going for the button on the right...because I'm greedy and people have told me that in life, to get anywhere you need to take risks.
The bigger the risk , the bigger the reward. That's what they told me and I believe them.

My dad used to say stuff like "Faint heart never won fair maiden" and my mom used to say stuff like "Nothing ventured, nothing gained".....they wouldn't tell me that if it wasn't true....

So I think they were steering me down the right path.....button on the right for sure....

 

[murphy]

Carrots

 

[geeza]

Left button. Maybe if was young, I'd take the chance on the right button, but not any more.


...'specially if it's a million after taxes.

 

[BboogieXVII]

I'll take the million dollars, sure it would be great to have 100 million but a 50% chance of winning it is far from guaranteed

 

[Gorn]

One option has a guaranteed win. The other doesn't. If it was a guaranteed $100 or a 50/50 $1000, it would be a different story. A million bucks isn't necessarily enough to never work again and do what you want forever, but it's pretty good. The left button is the only reasonable option.

 

[Stewie26]

I would go for the $100M. Being the capitalistic pig I am, I would play those odds anytime.

 

[slobake]

I always lean to the left.

 

[Snakeman1066]

I always lean to the left.

one of my favorite lines from a move ever

Tim Thomerson to John Saxon

Thomerson just punched a guy and knocked him out cold...Saxon asked, "What did you hit him for?"

Thomerson "Guy was too far to the left so I gave him a right!"

 

[Ironbar]

I'm going

Imagen this : you're a candidate for a television program where you can win money. You're on stage and in front of you there's a desk with 2 buttons on it.

If you press the left button, you will get 1 million dollar instantly. If you press the right button, you have 50 % change to win 100 million dollar.

Which one would you choose?

I'm going to assume that what you meant to say was that if you select the right button, you have a 50/50 chance of winning 100M or nothing at all. If that is the case, I would easily select the left button for the one million, because I could easily parlay that money into much more than one million through sound investment strategies, and I'm not the type of person who'd blow a crap-ton of money on stupid things anyway.

 

[PortlandBass77]

Is this even a question? 1 million is enough to retire and start a carrot farm!

 

[MD]

I don't need a lot of stuff. Sure $$$ all the way.

 

[hopsbb]

I'd take a chance on the $100 mil.If I won great, if I got nothing then I'm in the same place I started from. Might as well go big or go home.

 

[jmattbassplaya]

I'd take a chance on the $100 mil.If I won great, if I got nothing then I'm in the same place I started from. Might as well go big or go home.

That's a good way to look at it.

 

[48thStreetCustom]

a bird in the hand is worth a hundred million in the bush.

 

[pcake]

i'd go for the left button without a second thought.

 

[zontar]

Well, on one hand, I wouldn't walk away with less money than I showed up with-even if I walked away with nothing.
On the other hand --the $1,000,000 is a sure thing, and no need to be greedy.

So I'd take the million.

 

[elgecko]

In the words of Steve Miller, "take the money and run"!