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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 61 points 2 months ago

Not ask the internet what I would do – revealing that I’ve found an infinite money glitch.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

With a duplication glitch, wouldn't both technically be the same chick?

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

Twins is nice, duplicates is a trip

[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 54 points 2 months ago

Shut up and tell absofukinglutely no one about it, then I would work out a way to secretly siphon it off to people I like.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One guy already found this hack and created a shitty “AI” company

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago
[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 months ago

I'd spawn a million tons of cash above every single capitalist's house and let them be suffocated to death by the thing they love most

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Tell no one, live in my tiny house, buy high quality jeans, travel a lot by myself, get a library's worth of books, and make art/video games all day.

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago
  • Tell absolutely no one.
  • Helping the people who did help me when I was in need of help.
  • Live an simple, boring life.
  • Continue studying what I like (I love learning).
[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Plant crops, sell crops and hold some back to plant next year’s crop.

Real-life infinite money/duplication glitch.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 25 points 2 months ago

That sounds suspiciously like farm work.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

do it before they broke farms in next update

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Too late, they patented GMO plants update is already out. If you try to grow the "natural" plants, they just get killed by the pesticides, also sold by the same company that sells the GMO plant seeds. You cannot legally replant the seeds, if they even produce seeds at all. They'd send their goons to threaten you.

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here’s the thing, you can actually just ignore the laws, and as long as you keep your fucking mouth shut, you’ll be fine.

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 16 points 2 months ago

Well maybe it's too boring and obvious, but... Seize the means of production, distribute equal shares of its ownership to everyone, design a democratic process to decide what should come next.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Build and buy media networks and hire the best investigative journalists. Back centre-left political parties worldwide and back unions and backstop strike funds until the whole world strikes like the French. Fund electrified mass transit, renewable energy and passivehouse construction and urban controlled-environment agriculture. Fund orphanages, school food programs and poverty alleviation and social justice causes.

I'd also start an eco-religion whose funding goes to a land trust that buys important and sensitive lands to return to wilderness and 50% can be lightly used by humans as national parks and 50% is forbidden for humans at all. Church of Gaia. The church would have monks who work as rangers/land defenders to enforce the holy order.

I would live a quiet simple life in a relatively modest but comfortable passive house on a permaculture farm. My "car" would be a selection of percheron horses and a small selection of carriage/wagons.

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[–] SpicyLengthiness@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

If we had lots of time, then it's easy. Just buy total market index funds and sit and wait. This is why vampires are usually rich. If you've lived that long, and you're not rich, you're doing something wrong.

$2 at 7% a year for 50 years = $58.91

$2 at 7% a year, for 500 years = $1,505,863.24

The power of compound interest!

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[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

My wallet never would be empty, but just enough to buy a drink or a meal when need it

[–] Typewar@infosec.pub 13 points 2 months ago

Continue doing what I love without having to worry about money being an issue

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Tell no one, obscure monetary transactions to the best of my ability, and fund global communism

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

People have found these and gotten arrested over exploiting them, let's be real

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it has happened to me.

I had put my money into the ticket vending machine on the train platform. The ticket came out, but the machine could not cut off the paper properly. Well, not too serious, I could live with that ticket that was looking just a little bit crumpled. After several seconds, an error message appeared on the screen. Then the machine decided to give me my money back. So I had both: my ticket and my money.

I liked that so much that I tried it again, and it gave exactly the same result again.

I could probably have repeated it for hours, but then my train appeared. :-)

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When I was young we had a postage stamp vending machine.
And I believe it had a bunch of stamps peeking out from under it. And also tried to extract some more. Took as many as I could, which ended in about 5 or 10€ in postage stamps :)

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Really? Keep it so quiet.

Would do the things to the house that we say we'd do if we had all the money. But not more. Get the car my husband wants, but with a loan so it's not so obvious. I don't need one. Start putting the max into the retirement accounts and pull an extra couple thousand to pay for stuff each month.

I feel like this would basically need to be laundered like crime money, if we wanted to do more with it, even good things. Would think on it, but without a way to do that I would just use it.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Duplicate money.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 2 months ago

Everyone's kickstarter will meet every goal. All of them. Even the bad ideas. 😈

[–] TheV2@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

I'd sell an e-book about this glitch on Amazon and generate passive income!

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Destroy capitalism.

[–] Idontcare@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 2 months ago

Abuse the fuck out of it so I could right as many wrongs as I could with said money.

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’d spawn a few million euros for myself and never worry about finances ever again. Ruining the world economy with hyperinflation isn’t in my interest, nor would I have any use for more money than that.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

If I had infinite money, I would create Medicare for All as a private company.

It'd be like shooting all the healthcare CEOs at once.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

Immediately not trust it and assume I'm too stupid or ignorant to see what the flaw in the system is.

And next I'd be worried that, flaw or not, the authorities might find out about it, because that would almost certainly not end well.

Even if there's truly a way to get something for nothing, someone else will find a way to take it away.

[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Outbid the car/weapons lobby and errect an eco-social government >:) Watch out, we'll support your purchase of an electric car and reinstate the Vegane Wurst!!!!

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (8 children)

You'd better start with some pretty hefty security for yourself cause your have assassination attempts pretty quickly.

Welp... care for a job as security advisor?

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[–] vin@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 months ago

See if I can manufacture a world-wide property value crash

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Probably cause mass inflation and a return to bartering.

[–] lennee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

donate to wikipedia and fsf first and then get a beer

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Free housing, healthcare, and education for everyone!

Just kidding. I'd dress up like a bat and beat up clowns.

[–] CanadaPlus 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Use it sparingly, to avoid causing massive inflation as everyone realises the money supply is fucked.

Look, I like chaos as much as the next guy, but blowing up the entire global economy is a step too far. And I could do a lot of good with a few billion that I can actually spend.

Unless this means infinite actual value instead of infinite imaginary currency, in which case I guess I ascend everyone and everything into some kind of godhood, because that implies I can.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Hack the planet!

[–] Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Keep it to myself and fund projects I like (under the assumption that I could get a million € per h for example)

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