Be wealthy/rich now, or be immortalized in history?

Which one?

By rich, I mean rich. Like Bill Gates style rich. Except you'll be forgotten the moment you die.

By immortalized in history, I mean people as famous as Napolean, Washington, Caesar, MLK, Lincon. You will actually do somethign great and change the world.

The people historians spend their entire lives researching, and people will quote you, and know who you are and what you did, long after your death. There will be documentaries and movies about your life, and your name and face will be carved in statues and pictures. Basically, you will never be forgotten, and everyone long after your death will still know you, because you changed the world.

However, you aren't going to be rich, you might end up suffering, or other stuff.

So, your choice?

EDIT: For greatness, you will actually do somethign great and change the world.

Without even thinking...the money.

I'll take the money, thanks. :P

Show me the money!

SavageM2

[QUOTE="SavageM2"]

Show me the money!

cluclap

I entered it, the page refreshed and I saw right above me the same/similar thing I was like ****. I guess great minds think alike. :wink: I changed it right after though. :P

Why can't I use my infinite wealth to fund a army force to conquer the world? That way people will remember my name in the future and I'll be rich :P.

Rich; you only live once.

Atleast, you make it sound like sudden fame without actually doing anything..
If you are talking doing extremely important work throughout your life, and earning it, like Ghandi or someone similar, than I would rather have helped humankind for the better rather than be rich.

Don't care for money...don't care for fame. Hmmmm....I don't know which. How about a normal down to earth life?

^^^ Or what Mudd said, to get fame from helping people.

I would take the money, and then I would use some of my money to help charities and the poor from across the world. I would also use some of my money to have planes fly over countries and drop boxes of bacon in them. Through all my acts of generosity, I would become well-known, but because I am so darn rich, all of the donations I made would not dent my wallet.

I would have both fame and fortune. 8)

Rich; you only live once.

Atleast, you make it sound like sudden fame without actually doing anything..
If you are talking doing extremely important work throughout your life, and earning it, like Ghandi or someone similar, than I would rather have helped humankind for the better rather than be rich.MuddVader

That's what i was thinking too, like if you take the green pill (rich) or the yellow (immortalized) and then unknowingly take the yellow one thinking that you will be a great person in life, but it's actually full of poison and your immortalization would be that you were the idiot who took the yellow pill thinking it would make you famous. WHAT A TWIST??

I want to be fat.

Rich. No one likes learning histrory anyway:P

That's what i was thinking too, like if you take the green pill (rich) or the yellow (immortalized) and then unknowingly take the yellow one thinking that you will be a great person in life, but it's actually full of poison and your immortalization would be that you were the idiot who took the yellow pill thinking it would make you famous. WHAT A TWIST??

cluclap

Immortalized in history. The ultimate form of ego stroking :D Who wouldn't want to go down in the history books as one of the most famous people ever?F1_2004

Rich. No one likes learning histrory anyway:P

shinian

Don't care for money...don't care for fame. Hmmmm....I don't know which. How about a normal down to earth life?

^^^ Or what Mudd said, to get fame from helping people.

killab2oo5

I can not believe people when they say that, everyone loves and craves money. You can't tell me if you were to see a ten dollar bill laying in the street, you would leave it there for someone else.

Money means nothing to me and there's no price tag attached to the things I want out of life; however, being immortalized in history isn't something I'm after either. Just being able to make an impact in the lives of people around me and knowing that I'll live on through their hearts and deeds ismore than enough for a person suchas myself.

And oh, whats with the sudden increase of threads relating to mortality huh? On the first page of OT there's these ones:

- Would you want to live for an eternity, ON EARTH??

-Possible ways to achieve eternal youth and immortality (somewhat immortal)

- and this oneCipherZilla

Rich, baby. I'm all for getting attention, but it does me no good when I'm dead.

Is "neither" a valid option? If so, i´m going with that.

Is "neither" a valid option? If so, i´m going with that.

BiancaDK

having lived at the poverty line for almost two years now, I would much rather be rich

i dont give a damn about being famous.

[QUOTE="killab2oo5"]

Don't care for money...don't care for fame. Hmmmm....I don't know which. How about a normal down to earth life?

^^^ Or what Mudd said, to get fame from helping people.

Bluestorm-Kalas

I can not believe people when they say that, everyone loves and craves money. You can't tell me if you were to see a ten dollar bill laying in the street, you would leave it there for someone else.

i know, i want to slap people when they say "I dont care about money" sometimes.

So long as you can be a good person, go out and grab all the money you can, its fun buying the stuff you and your loved ones want, and it sucks not being able to.

Is "neither" a valid option? If so, i´m going with that.

BiancaDK

Rich. Being immortalized in history is all very well and good but I wouldn't be alive to enjoy it.Floppy_Jim

exactly

not to mention you'd be dooming any of your ancestors to exist in your shadow

"Hey, youre the great grandson of the Conquerer Bojangles, Cleaver of a Billion Heads? Oh man thats sooooo cool!"

yea I dont want my kin being judged to my example.

[QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]Rich. Being immortalized in history is all very well and good but I wouldn't be alive to enjoy it.mrbojangles25

exactly

not to mention you'd be dooming any of your ancestors to exist in your shadow

"Hey, youre the great grandson of the Conquerer Bojangles, Cleaver of a Billion Heads? Oh man thats sooooo cool!"

yea I dont want my kin being judged to my example.

Rich, but only so i didnt have to have a crappy job and could do what i want. [QUOTE="BiancaDK"]

Is "neither" a valid option? If so, i´m going with that.

Wolls

I do not want to be rich. If i wanted to be rich, i´d be rich.

If i became rich, due to some hypothetical scenario, i would simply give it to some cause i would deem worthy.

But then i did not become rich in this hypothethical scenario due to me wanting to obtain richess: At the very most, it is because i would want someone else to gain an exceptional amount of monetary wealth.

I wanted to say both but these threads must usually have completely extreme options with some sort of drawback to spark interest and show where our nature is at Miss Bianca and saying anything other than those would make us look like "that" kid, truly a predicament D:

Dystopian-X

Predicament, butonly if you find being labelled"that" kid, to actuallybe a matter of concern to you (:

[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

[QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]Rich. Being immortalized in history is all very well and good but I wouldn't be alive to enjoy it.Dystopian-X

exactly

not to mention you'd be dooming any of your ancestors to exist in your shadow

"Hey, youre the great grandson of the Conquerer Bojangles, Cleaver of a Billion Heads? Oh man thats sooooo cool!"

yea I dont want my kin being judged to my example.

exactly, screw the future!

:P

no, I care about the future, but the human race is going to rise and fall, fade and prosper, regardless of my actions. So while I could become famous for some feat, and thus become remembered, I would much rather take immediate wealth which ensures the prosperity of myself, my family, and my descendents. At least I can guarentee them that.

Not to mention all the countless good I could do with unlimited wealth; I would much rather be an unknown investor that funded the doctors that cured AIDS, than a poor guy that became famous by curing AIDS.

Predicament, butonly if you find being labelled"that" kid, to actuallybe a matter of concern to you (:

BiancaDK

Indeed. But ppl will talk, that concerns us all of regardless, it's a fact ;_;

exactly, screw the future!

:P

no, I care about the future, but the human race is going to rise and fall, fade and prosper, regardless of my actions. So while I could become famous for some feat, and thus become remembered, I would much rather take immediate wealth which ensures the prosperity of myself, my family, and my descendents. At least I can guarentee them that.

If I did something famous, I dont think they'd reap any benefits from it. No practical ones at least.

mrbojangles25

Well the TC didn't specify how I'd be going down in history. Say you would by sacrificing yourself and saving thousands in some heroic act or w/e. For humanity's prosperity those thousands>1 bloodline lost.

I'd be rich and then do something with that money to make me be immortalised in history.

[QUOTE="BiancaDK"]

Predicament, butonly if you find being labelled"that" kid, to actuallybe a matter of concern to you (:

Dystopian-X

Indeed. But ppl will talk, that concerns us all of regardless, it's a fact ;_;

exactly, screw the future!

:P

no, I care about the future, but the human race is going to rise and fall, fade and prosper, regardless of my actions. So while I could become famous for some feat, and thus become remembered, I would much rather take immediate wealth which ensures the prosperity of myself, my family, and my descendents. At least I can guarentee them that.

If I did something famous, I dont think they'd reap any benefits from it. No practical ones at least.

mrbojangles25

Well the TC didn't specify how I'd be going down in history. Say you would by sacrificing yourself and saving thousands in some heroic act or w/e. For humanity's prosperity those thousands>1 bloodline lost.

while it is hard to resist favoring such a cut and dry example (sacrifice self to save thousands), one could argue charity over a lifetime would save far more than a few thousand.

lets look at Africa: with a lot of money, I could hire mercenary groups to combat and eradicatethe warlords, establish orphanages and schools to take care of war orphans, buyout the organized religion and get some sex education there (condoms for everyone!), establish agricultural centers so people could learn to farm, and more.

On one hand it seems selfish to say "No, I want to be rich, I dont want to sacrifice myself to save those people"

On the other hand, one can argue its selfish to seek fame and glory and waste yourself, when by living and becoming wealthy you could do more good.

Which one?

By rich, I mean rich. Like Bill Gates style rich. Except you'll be forgotten the moment you die.

By immortalized in history, I mean people as famous as Napolean, Washington, Caesar, MLK, Lincon. You will actually do somethign great and change the world.

The people historians spend their entire lives researching, and people will quote you, and know who you are and what you did, long after your death. There will be documentaries and movies about your life, and your name and face will be carved in statues and pictures. Basically, you will never be forgotten, and everyone long after your death will still know you, because you changed the world.

However, you aren't going to be rich, you might end up suffering, or other stuff.

So, your choice?

EDIT: For greatness, you will actually do somethign great and change the world.

Rich - what's the point in being popular when you're dead? I rather have the money now to buy what I want and ensure I provide my family with what they need to be successful.the_kidisblack

Just saying that if you were offered money like this you wouldnt turn it down, but give it away wouldnt you?Wolls

I would not turn the offer down, no. And i´d like to believe that i would give the money away, yes.