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You have to make 40 dollars in 3 hours or your family will explode. What do you do?

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  • kescusay@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

    40 dollars? That's all? I'm salaried and can work any hours I want to, so I guess I'm logging in at work and writing a few lines of code or answering some emails.

    Twenty minutes will do it. Probably round it up to half an hour just to be safe. And honestly, if I get into the zone, an hour will fly by, easy.

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    Twenty minutes will do it. Probably round it up to half an hour just to be safe. And honestly, if I get into the zone, an hour will fly by, easy.

    Sorry family. I got into the flow at work. Oops about that.

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      Get a loan from the local loan shark.

      Go to the roulette table at the casino. Bet it all on 32.

      Lose my bet.

      Go back to the local loan shark for $40.

      Bet the $40 at the roulette table.

      Lose.

      Repeat until either I get the money to pay the loan shark and save my family. Or I gues it's RIP for my family and my kneecaps.

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        Easy. Sell a gun on FB Marketplace for a ridiculously low asking price. It would sell faster than I would be banned.

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          I make that in an hour of work. So... keep doing what I'm doing?

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          Even if I didn't make that at my normal job, or it was non-business hours when I can't just go to work for money, I feel like $40 in 3 hours is pretty doable with just gig work (grocery/restaurant delivery, Uber).

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            Sell some stocks I guess.

            Unless you mean my net worth has to go up $40? In which case, I'll probably look for someone who would be willing to pay me $40 ahead of time to teach them some machine learning over some negotiable span of time. Or to build a website or something. There are lots of businesses in the area that could use it, and $40 is insanely cheap for something like that.

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              Get laid, make money. I just need one.

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                Make exactly $39

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                  Time to get into sex work.

                  I don't have anything I could sell that quickly, even.

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                  Well a beej is a beej. Some people ain't picky.

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                    I feel like this is a "straight" boys wet dream. Perfect 'no homo' excuse to suck a dick.

                    "I did it to save my family".

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                      Time to get into sex work.

                      I don't have anything I could sell that quickly, even.

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                      Overestimating how easy it is. Even before FOSTA-SESTA, you’d have to learn the lingo and figure out where your audience is. If you’re a cis dude, there’s a lot of cis dudes willing to suck or whatever for free. There’s also like literally nothing stopping them from not paying you - obviously you should take the money up front, but you go through all that effort, meet the guy and he says “oh I actually don’t have any money but don’t you like me enough to do it for free? 🥺” and in the best case scenario you just don’t get raped.

                      If they could pick up the desperation (and you’re desperate because of the exploding family thing), they’d probably pressure you into not making them wear a condom.

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                        How exactly do you define making money though? I already have more than $40 could I purchase a product worth more than $40 and then return it? Could I steal $40 from somebody and then give it back once my family is no longer going to explode? Could I explain that my family is going to explode and politely request the money in hopes that someone believes me? How long do I need to retain the money? What if I just take something I own to a pawn shop? What if I gamble and I lose $50 and then later I make $40, I'm $10 down but technically I made $40 in the last transaction, have I satisfied the requirement?

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                          Well a beej is a beej. Some people ain't picky.

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                          Gay dudes are really into me, even. I'm like a classic bear.

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                            Overestimating how easy it is. Even before FOSTA-SESTA, you’d have to learn the lingo and figure out where your audience is. If you’re a cis dude, there’s a lot of cis dudes willing to suck or whatever for free. There’s also like literally nothing stopping them from not paying you - obviously you should take the money up front, but you go through all that effort, meet the guy and he says “oh I actually don’t have any money but don’t you like me enough to do it for free? 🥺” and in the best case scenario you just don’t get raped.

                            If they could pick up the desperation (and you’re desperate because of the exploding family thing), they’d probably pressure you into not making them wear a condom.

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                            FOSTA-SESTA

                            Not American, no worries. We ultimately went with the Scandinavian model here so it's not even illegal to sell.

                            you’d have to learn the lingo and figure out where your audience is

                            That could be tough. I'd probably try some of the dudes that have already hit on me first.

                            $40 isn't too much and maybe I could play up the inexperienced actually straight fetish thing.

                            If they could pick up the desperation (and you’re desperate because of the exploding family thing), they’d probably pressure you into not making them wear a condom.

                            Not a deal breaker, TBH. Worst case I get AIDS and have to take pills for it for the rest of my life. My next best option in such a short period is an armed robbery I'll definitely get caught for. Maybe burglary if I can find someone who keeps cash.

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                              I would go to work at my job and earn more than $40 just like I do every day.

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                                That's possible at most jobs here, so family is safe. If you mean outside of work, I'm a lady so could probably find & turn a trick in that amount of time, sure husband would even set it up rather than exploding, he has a friend who works with rich guys. Could make that with plenty to spare, I'd guess.

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                                  Define family first

                                    • Parents - nothing
                                    • Siblings - nothing
                                    • Uncle's/aunts - nothing
                                    • Cousins - nothing
                                    • Grandparents - Uber
                                    • GFs - Uber
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