The dollar can be used once a day. It has to be a dollar’s worth of a product, service or use of a product. For example, A dollar’s worth of a $100 TV would be the life of the TV divided by 100. You would get to enjoy the TV for that amount of time. The product or service is instant and doesn’t require any preparation. It just appears and disappears. Or you could have a TV permanently that is worth one dollar.
One dollar of electricity at the cheapest rate available. Removing all transfer and admin cost can produce it anywhere and do super cool stuff like ice on the dessert or light anywhere. This cam translate into a fun gig that yields good money one dollar at the time.
MRW electricity prices go negative:
I’d buy sone bitcoin daily and sell it after a few years
one dollars worth of a supermassive black hole please.
everyone is coming for the ride of their lives.
Hate to burst your bubble, but $1 worth of black hole would be so small, that it would likely evaporate before it did any damage to anything.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation
And if it really was $1 worth of time with the black hole, I doubt it would do any damage cause the gravity wouldn’t have time to do anything.
So what happens if the thing I buy is information? Technically would have infinite lifespan— but if I only remembered it for a certain amount of time (if tied to a service or something, maybe could copy it before the time ran out, eg in the case of a movie or Death Star plans etc)
Knowledge is priceless.
I can do one dollar’s worth of anything GUARANTEED?
That one’s easy: I’ll buy a fraction of a winning lottery ticket.
Congrats you won half of a two dollar scratcher. Here is your $2.50
I get to convert my $1 of expirable daily money into $2.50 of real money? Sounds good to me.
One dollar worth of sand, teleported into the lungs of my choice.
That is totally gonna be somebody’s Stand’s power in part 9 of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. I’m calling it.
Looks like I’m buying $1 of cryptocurrency a day. After a year, I’d have somewhere between $1 and $25K.
I’m pretty sure I can find $1 worth of something I’d like, but I cannot right now, so probably if possible just letting that $1 go towards development of something like SuperTuxKart or Shattered Pixel Dungeon each day. Not much, but better than nothing.
One dollar won’t buy much of anything. Give me a magic ten instead.
$1 worth of sex, please. More than I need.
One dollar of delicious jasmine rice per day please
Edit holy moly that is approx 1 pound of succulent jasmine rice
You must really like rice.
I do, but mostly because I’m bad at cooking and it’s versatile. Rinse rice and cook it, add 1-2 other ingredients and a sauce and it’s a pretty good meal. Rice+Japanese BBQ sauce+carrots and broccoli, or rice+teriyaki+air-fried nuggets, stuff like that. Also dirt cheap.
But jasmine on its lonesome is pretty sweet
Sounds good.
Probably uses it to make rice water.
How is this different from the dollars I have now?
Unlimited free shipping
Buy a plot of land, preferably with a house on it. If you assume that the land will last until the death of the planet, even if it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to ‘buy’, $1 / day worth of that would still last you for your lifetime. If it doesn’t last that long, you could calculate the length of time until the death of the planet (or of the human race) by dividing the time you got it by the price in dollars, and that’d be valuable information, too. Bonus points if you only keep it for a few minutes.
You need to consider the net present value of all future taxes. I’m guessing $1 won’t get you much time each day.
I’d argue that the taxes are a separate cost, which would be paid separately rather than being included in the “purchase price” you’re using your dollar to offset. In OP’s example, the TV requires electricity to run, but the cost of that electricity is (presumably) not bundled into the purchase price. Just like maintenance on the house would not be included up front, as it’s a separate, additional cost.
If you reject that, I’d argue that the land will exist well beyond the fall of civilization, and at some point, there won’t be a government to tax it. It will, however, still exist. If the land costs $400,000, and taxes are $10k / year, and we expect Earth to last about 8 billion years, and we expect government taxing the land to exist for, say, generously, 10,000 of those years, that’s only a net cost of $0.0125 per year. In this case, the land itself only costs $0.00005 per year, so you could buy quite a lot of things for your dollar, in fact.
You are renting the land/home for one dollar’s amount of time. Tax free for this scenario. The amount is determined by whatever the market value of the home is divided by one dollar as a percentage. Assuming the time it would take the average buyer to pay off a mortgage. (Not including tax, that is too complicated so I am leaving it out). Then you determine how much of the total amount of that time is one dollar. Probably minutes or maybe close to an hour, IDK. You don’t have to calculate it, the dollar does this by teleportating you to and from it. You can save your magic dollars and become a magic millionaire/billionaire etc.
You can save your magic dollars and become a magic millionaire/billionaire etc.
One dollar a day is $365 per year. If I lived a hundred years and didn’t spend anything, I’d have $36,500 (not counting leap years). I’d have to live 2,739 years to become a millionaire - I don’t think I’m going to make it!
Remember there was a guy who traded a paperclip up to a house by trading for something more valuable each time. Similar concept if you consider that the magic dollar can be sold to someone once you show them what it can do. They get it for one use but you still get one magic dollar each day.
You could save up and invest it, gamble etc. To get to that.
If you teleport to it and back, that’s way more valuable than anything you’d actually be buying. I’d just use it for that purpose exclusively. Choose a plot of land to “buy” that’s calculated to a specific timeframe, matching how long I wanted to be there. “I want 200 square feet in Norway.” Day trip to Norway, let’s go!
1$ worth of data transfer from any server. Using S3 pricing as an estimate, it can give me 111 GB of transfer out.
I could use partials of it to extract various companies’ customer data and extort them for ransom; or download the source code of a popular commercial program then expose it for everyone.
Get the mail server data, lots of unencrypted internal company info you can use for insider trading (it’s going to take any tax authority a while to notice joe nobody getting rich suspiciously well timed)
I can’t even make a collect call for a dollar anymore. SMH
I guess I’ll buy an Arizona tea from somewhere other than a gas station, in a state with no can deposit.
