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

I'd definitely do a lot of meditating. Maybe if I meditated long enough I'd achieve Enlightenment. Once that happens, maybe I wouldn't value money anymore. Then I'd just walk out and refuse the money.

If that didn't happen, I'd go for 200 days. I'd unscrew the light bulb after the third meal, and turn it back on before the next to help keep track of the days. Even if I lost count of the days a few times, I doubt I'd be off by more than a week or two by the end.

I'd practice yoga for several hours per day. I'd be ready to leave at the point when I've gained enough flexibility to S my own D.

So would you do 10 days again for $100,000?

I'd like to think I could stay there for a solid year as I'm a very introverted person and spend most of my time alone. The no-entertainment deal would put a snag in my plan though. I would probably want to come out much sooner than I would initially plan.

Big thing is a clock. Do we get a clock in the room and a sense of how long we've been inside?

Five or six days each year. Employment becomes unnecessary.

I think 6 months would be doable. The biggest reason I would want to leave would be that I know of I stayed in too long I could come out really fvcked up. I think I would have to put a limit on myself so I wouldn't get too greedy and stay in longer than I should. 6 months would be boring but not impossible while hopefully still leaving my mind intact.

I would bet a hundred bucks that 90% of the people saying they could last longer than a week would last one week or less.

photofinish wrote:

Three years. After three years, I'd have about $11 million. Then I'd be a rich dude starting new businesses and traveling the world. I can handle solitude fine.

^THIS WOULD BE EXACTLY MY PLAN^

10 million or so and you're set for life...you can have the rest of your life For free time to do what you want, as long as you don't have too expensive tastes--

travel, run, hang out with friends, visit musuems, peruse LRC....etc. Free time is undervalued in our society...

And so whats 3 years in solitary for such a pay-off? I'd take that deal ANYDAY!

Hold up.

Don't forget about taxes. 40% of your time in the hole is going to uncle Sam to pay for the wreckless, irresponsible societal behaviour of your parents.

Remember this when the largest generation of people this country has ever seen head towards their deathbeds expecting modern medicine to keep them alive for another three months at $10,000/day.

not even a full work day? you are totally dependent on someone bringing you food and water...F That!!

This would be better with an increasing amount each day. Give people more incentive to remain. $100 the first day, $3k the 2nd, $10k the 3rd, $20K the 4th and onward til the amount of money is unbelievable but the penalty is your sanity. then you'd have a more compelling question.

I have never met you.

But I cannot stand you.

Please do not respond to this thread again.

Please learn to comprehend what you read before posting again on the Internet.

Please do not procreate.

I wrote a short story about this very scenario once back in Russia. The short story is called "The Bet."

Check it out

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Bet.shtml

Here is how I see it. The first 2 days I sleep most of the time. Just catching up. I think I would almost enjoy the first two days. At that point I start a massive pushup and situp routine. I also would take 2 pretty good naps a day and think I could still sleep a full nights sleep. I have heard those put into situations like this learn to sleep 15 hours a day. I think I would actually try not to think of how long I was in there. My basic plan would be to stay until I felt like I was losing my mind. All in all I would say about 2-3 months.

I'm interested to read through this thread when I have more time, but for me, I could stay in a long time, as long as I cared to. I am a natural loner who enjoys and needs a great deal of time to just sit and think. However, with no pens, paper, books, etc, I probably wouldn't want to spend a substantial amount of time locked up. Apparently people in these situations start hallucinating pretty bad after only two or three days, which actually has some long term benefits (increases one's ability to remember images, faces, etc), but I imagine one would go literally insane if limited to this environment too long. Who cares if you have millions of dollars if you're insane, right?

I also live very cheaply, so $10k goes a long way with me. I'd probably shoot for a month or so and see how things go. That'd be $300k, or about ten times what I currently make in a year (haha!), so that'd set me up well for a while. If I was doing okay after a month I'd shoot for one more. No matter how well I tolerated it, I probably wouldn't stay in longer than about 6 months as I think the harm to my mental and physical health and waste of life would no longer be worth the money.

Since it was never stated that the days need to be consecutive, I'd do one day per month.

If consecutive days, then I don't think anyone can say until they do it. You'd be tempted to stay another day for another $10k, but once you loose track of the days and your mind starts playing tricks, you don't really know how long you'd last.

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?

Can I go in and out as I please? Like go in every Monday, get $10k and leave?

Two weeks

David Blaine did 44 days... without food.

It's hard to know the effects of confinement, but there's plenty of things to do. I'd do at least a year, two would be very nice financially. I'll do yoga, fake rope skipping, vocal practice, singing practice, strenghten my tendons, practice hand stands, walking on hands, one hand balancing, pushing on walls, deadlifts holding my toes, push ups, breakdance... So many things to do. Then I'll also have my imaginary world, you have too.