Would You Listen To The Same Song On Repeat For A Month For $1 Million?

by Boobie

So I was talking to some people around the office today and we struck up what I thought was an interesting conversation: would you listen to the same song, over and over again, without being able to turn it off, for a month straight for a $1 million? The answer from everyone was yes. One guy said, “well, I don’t know, do I get to pick the song?” to which we all said “No,” but he still said yes.

$1 million dollars, if you’re not familiar, is 10 iterations of $100,000.00, but all at once. It’s also 100 iterations of $10,000.00, and 1000 iterations of $1,000. It is quite a lot of money! Conceptualize it this way: the median household income for 2016, the last year for which data is available, was about $59,000. At that rate, in order to earn $1 million, you’d have to work for 17 years. If you choose to listen to the same song on repeat for a month, you could instead make it in one month.

If you invest that $1 million wisely enough that it returns 6% annually, you can make $60,000 a year, more than that median household income, by doing nothing. If you continued to work instead of taking that $60,000 a year out, by the rule of 72, you would double your money in 12 years. You’d then have $2 million, which is twice as much as $1 million.

Was this question stupid enough that a bunch of people quote tweeted it to make fun of how stupid it was? I really hope so, it would be nice to get a bunch of page views I could potentially present to advertisers. That’s really the only reason I invented this fake office debate, because the question really is a dumb as hell no-brainer.

Look, would it suck to have to listen to one song over and over for a full month, even when you should be sleeping or listening to someone else talk? Of course. There could be a once-in-a-lifetime even that you don’t get to experience properly because of this magical challenge. My counterpoint is this: it also sucks not having $1 million. I would like the $1 million. Please make me listen to something terrible, like Revolution #9 or P!nk or something, for a month straight, and then hand me $1 million at the end of that month.

I would do it for way less. I would do it for $1,000, which, as I mentioned earlier, is just 0.1% of $1 million. For a million dollars, I would undergo all the tortures at the beginning of METHOD Man for $1 million. In the pursuit of even a little bit of potential exposure and/or freelance money, I would concoct a hairbrained scheme to get dunked on by all of Twitter, and then carry it out in a blog far longer than the idea warrants. $1 million is so much money you guys. Please quote tweet this so everyone sees it so maybe one day I can have $1 million. If these kinds of things are going to show up on my Twitter timeline all the time I deserve to at least benefit from them.

Thank you and God bless, and if this gets any traction and wealthy benefactor happens to see it, please, I’m begging you, give me $1 million. I’ll do anything. I’ll kill someone. Please.