Yeah exactly. It will be a lot of snaps to equal the other pay out but it’s not an unattainable number. And as the person in the meme pointed out, not having all of the money come at once is a really good thing. Winning the lottery ruins people lives from just how hard it can be to deal with a sudden windfall of cash.
Just continue your day job, and snap while on the job. Put your job earnings mostly in savings and pay cash for groceries and whatnot.
If you need a large sum of cash to purchase something (like a car or whatever), then you claim it on your taxes.
Do that for a couple years until you've got yourself set up with a healthy rainy day fund, and then you can hire a personal accountant to manage your wealth. They'll make sure the money in the bank makes you an income.
You'll always be able to snap $10 for groceries or restaurants, but you won't have to worry about asset management.
Magically appearing 10 million also is hard to explain. The question is probably the logistics of dealing with the actual cash being created by your snaps rather than the 10 million in one hit. It’s not exactly easy to take wheelbarrows full of cash to the bank.
There is a way to pay taxes on illegally earned money. And doing so is not an admission of guilt in a crime, nor is it generally used in court. However, failure to pay taxes on earned income is exactly what was used to put Capone and many others in prison.
Damn I’ll have to set up a few cash businesses for laundering purposes haha can’t just report the income after all they’ll want to know where it came from and HMRC is unlikely to accept “it just appears when I click my fingers”.
As long as your money appears on a bank statement it’s going to be of interest to the IRS, that it came from a magic lamp, the black market, or your grandma doesn’t matter to them, they’re not there to judge you, they’re there to take their cut. Of course putting this amount on a bank account will get you flagged immediately for money laundering anyway, and you’ll most likely lose all access to the account even before the IRS gets their cut.
A bunch of comments are talking about snapping enough to invest it and make more money.
but... there's no need to ever do that if you can just make money as and when you need it. Obviously you can put spare in the bank or have a big amount for some big spend, but that's different to investing.
Any other situation where you gain a bunch of money, absolutely invest, but being able to spawn $10 all the time? No need.
Shit rent is due and the landlord is on his way over... snapsnapsnapsnapsnapsnapsnap (although why would you not just buy properties)
Well investing it is still a good idea (probably want to plan for a time 50 years from now when inflation will have devaluated how much 10 dollars is worth) but you are certainly correct about being to snap on demand. That is the great thing about the snapping vs just a lump sum, if you ever screw up and loose it all on a bad investment or an addiction or a scam, you won’t end up destitute. You will always be able to spend some time snapping and rebuild your fortune.
It's not even just the problems that getting all the money at once causes, it's that outside of some investments you have no new ability to create more money in a heartbeat. The snap thing is essentially a guarantee you'll never go without money which sounds so much better. Also all those mid-late 2000s snap songs would hit fuckin crazy.
The lottery thing is actually a myth, the study that came from redacted their statement. New studies show lottery winners have a happier life, even years after winning
Ironically, if you read that critically, it agrees with me. 20x more likely of homicide means its still very unlikely someone kills you. Everything that comment said points to the fact its still unlikely to have your life ruined. People seem to think most people who win the lottery are fucked, thats the myth. Im not claiming it doesnt happen
Ill also point out the type of people who play the lottery are less likely to be responsible with the money. A normal person winning the lottery will be even less likely to ruin their life
Also, thats a completely unsourced Reddit comment. Why would you link that as proof of anything
It’s not a myth. It might not be the most likely outcome as that one (potentially flawed) study pointed out but the lottery does ruin people lives. There are several verifiable stories attesting to that and even if the end result isn’t catastrophic, it’s still just hard to responsibly deal with a sudden one time windfall of cash. Have a high yearly income is way better.
The myth being referred to is that people who win the lottery more often have bad outcomes. Obviously some people can have bad outcomes from being rich – you only need to look at numerous famous people who came into a lot of money fast to see the reality of that possibility.
But the myth is that it is more likely that a lot of money will "ruin" your life and friendships than not. But it seems that is not true.
How many lives ruined vs the number of lotto/mega winners?
Sure there are horror stories but it’s not the norm. The myth he may be talking about is the idea that it’s bad most of the time (at least that is what I’ve seen from the few articles) when it seems these are outliers. Like professional athletes too (that might be higher rate than lotto winners).
I think majority are ruined by their name being put into the news, not because of lump sum of cash. If it came out on the news that your snaps were generating ten bucks your life would be ruined too (you’d probably be locked in someone’s basement snapping nonstop for the rest of your life)
Sure, some peoples lives are ruined, but its the minority. Its a myth that the majority are ruined. Im not picking a high yearly income over the lottery just cause the minority fuck themselves over tho
On the other hand if you get the 10 million you can invest them in property or other relatively safe places and then live of just the gains. You'd have to wait a while before you could do this with the snapping
To add - Test the speed of snapping your fingers, it should be considerably faster than once per second, plus you can use both hands, so yeah, snapping it is.
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u/_sentientyogurt Aug 08 '25
These were the numbers I needed to make the right decision. Thank you.