How long could you stay in solitary confinement if you get paid $10k per day?

What day of the week would it start on?

You and and a stranger are both in solitary confinement (obviously in separate cells). Everyday that you stay in the cell you get 10k and everyday he stays he gets 10k.

-But if he decides to leave before you, he gets his money plus your money and you get nothing (and have to stay in jail indefinitely).

-If you leave before him you get all the money.

-If you leave at the same time you both get your money.

There is no communication with the stranger, what is your strategy and how long do you stay?

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The original premise has been dismissed due to its extreme stupidity. Please see my eariler post for the new question.

Four or five days. You could sort of semi-sleep in the "waking" hours. After that, it would start to get to me.

Okay, what's the NEW question again?

Wossamotta wrote:

Okay, what's the NEW question again?

You and a stranger are both in solitary confinement (obviously in separate cells). Everyday that you stay in the cell you get 10k and everyday he stays he gets 10k.

-But if he decides to leave before you, he gets his money plus your money and you get nothing (and have to stay in jail indefinitely).

-If you leave before him you get all the money.

-If you leave at the same time you both get your money.

There is no communication with the stranger, what is your strategy and how long do you stay?

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Alternatively, the rules are the same:-10k / day, if he leaves first he gets all the money and vice versaLeave Same time = both get your money. BUT:The game continues such that when one of you "leave the cell" you go to another cell and play against another stranger and a new stranger takes the place of the one who left in the original cell.This continues until you amass 1 million dollars and at this point are finally set free. What is your strategy?

Government Cheese wrote:

Wossamotta wrote:

Okay, what's the NEW question again?

You and a stranger are both in solitary confinement (obviously in separate cells). Everyday that you stay in the cell you get 10k and everyday he stays he gets 10k.

-But if he decides to leave before you, he gets his money plus your money and you get nothing (and have to stay in jail indefinitely).

-If you leave before him you get all the money.

-If you leave at the same time you both get your money.

There is no communication with the stranger, what is your strategy and how long do you stay?

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In addition to the extreme boredom, the other major problem is the inability to know how many days you've been in there. As the OP mentioned, you can cound the meals, but I bet after a few days, you'd forget and things would get fuzzy in your memory. You're no longer thinking in terms of days or dollars. THEN when/how do you decide to pull the plug?

Challenges and hypothetical situations like this are ones I'd arrange and televise, if I suddenly came into millions of dollars.

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I'm thinking 6 months for $1.8 million.

But I wonder as each day passes, do you get more greedy for another $10,000 or more anxious just to get out.

It's like speeding on a roadtrip. When you've got 700 miles to go, driving 70 instead of 60 saves you over an hour and a half. But when you've only got 30 miles to go, it only saves you a few minutes.

Of course, I still continue to speed.

I would probably last 1 year, maybe longer since I would be considering the high level of pay (obviously significantly higher than everyone outside of the top 1%) every time I thought about leaving

Stop complicating everything... It's honestly quite clear what he was trying to say and your literally the only guy who was like "deeeuur what do you mean I'm locked in solitary confinement?" What's the air like? Is it at room temperature? If it is at room temperature that's lame brother, if the average temperature was 112F THAT would be a question to ponder...

Anyway I would last at least 100 days, so I could say I'm a millionaire.

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I'd probably walk out after a month. I don't think it would take longer for me to realize I was wasting my life just for a little money.

You haven't had other months of your life wasted, and without reward?

Every month you stay in there gains you a few years that you don't have to work.

Unless you're already pulling a million a year.

Wasting however many days or months of your life isn't the hard part.

But think of the people that live in awful conditions for years.

Putting up with nothing for less than a year then doesn't seem so bad.

I'm thinking 40 days. 400 grand would do just about everything I want. I don't want to live off money the rest of my life, I want to start a small business and keep my mind and body active. 40 days is probably around the time you are going to have good introspection but not go completely nuts yet.

the other prisoner's dilemma wrote:

Tiny room with nothing but a bed and a toilet. No windows. No books, entertainment, or distractions of any kind. 3 square meals per day. How long do you last?

10K a day is a lot. You are talking near a year's worth of living expenses two days confinement. I would stay at least 5 months. Take out the toilet I could probably go a couple weeks.

Most of the basement dwellers here would not even notice

too easy a choice wrote:

the other prisoner's dilemma wrote:

Tiny room with nothing but a bed and a toilet. No windows. No books, entertainment, or distractions of any kind. 3 square meals per day. How long do you last?

10K a day is a lot. You are talking near a year's worth of living expenses two days confinement. I would stay at least 5 months. Take out the toilet I could probably go a couple weeks.

If he takes out the toilet, you could not go at all.

I haven't read through the entire thread yet but I'd like to share my personal experience.

When I was younger I found myself in some trouble for which I accept full responsibility for. I spent 9 months behind bars. In the very beginning of the term I politely refused to be transferred to a different institution due to overcrowding. At the time I wasn't sure I'd be staying the entire sentence as I had the opportunity to get out (PO Hold). My punishment was a 10 day stay in the hole.

Let me tell you that the days in there alone, with no light or anything to do played tricks on my mind. You're on suicide watch by default. The smell is awful, depression kicks in and you certainly contemplate a number of things in your head that can be the onset of other mental furies.

Theories say the first 48-hours of being institutionalized are the most influential on an incarcerated subject. Past that time frame you begin to deteriorate.

Minimum daily rate: $1000

I'd stay a week. I think that'd be about the borderline where you start losing your mind without anything to read or anyone to talk to. Plus for me right now, 70 grand would set me up pretty well.

Just read this the other day:

http://solitarywatch.com/2013/03/11/voices-from-solitary-a-sentence-worse-than-death/

Guy who's been on solitary for 25 years talks about how terrible it is.

I'd do a year to equal $3,650,000...