Time, assuming I could choose when to stop.
Good point. Not being able to die indefinitely sounds like torture after a while.
This. I don’t want money I need it to live but time to do the things I want to do is what I actually want (and unlimited money would give me Mord time since I wouldn’t need to work)
If I could stay a certain age, say in the mid 30s, then I’d be all for it.
food. I’d give it out for free in an effort to destroy the corporate slime that is currently infecting this planet
Literally Jesus
Monkey paw: you are granted unlimited food but the corporations recieve full compensation, so while world hunger drops, so does the quality of food, and new companies cannot break into the market because they are immediately bought by the conglomerates and quality drops, so nobody wants to eat
stop it, you’re ruining it
Ooh, that’s a really good monkey’s paw answer.
That’s actually not too bad… I’d imagine at some point the currency would crash, no?
I will give you 8 hours of my labor for 3 McDollars.
Some exclusions apply, not valid in all locations, visit mcdollar.gov for full terms and conditions.
The combined energy of five separate universes courses through your body and you explode.
Time, to do nothing productive.
The best kind of time
Hugs
deleted by creator
Unsurmountable quantity of hugs
All I see is repetitions of
🫂
I might delete because it’s a bit much. Sorry :3
This is the post on desktop:
Ooohhhh you don’t have the emoji symbol for hugs installed, or your browser doesn’t know it.
Chromium is apparently missing something
all the cool kids are using firefox these days
OH! I see it on mobile! I’ll have to screenshot this when I get back to my desktop.
🫂
You choose to go in for a hug,
But unbeknownst to you, you’ve been stabbed in the back…
with a hug.
My mom would cuddle with me, then as we’re doing that… be like “Why are you such a disappointment?”
😭
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
Time
Youth. Just saying time is basically asking for some monkey’s paw shit.
Even asking for unlimited youth is tricky for the monkey paw could just make you forever a baby.
Now that wouldn’t necessarily mean you’d end up being an adult brain in a baby’s body, just straight up a 1 year old that never develops, always reliant on someone else. You’d literally have 1 year before you’d be surrendered to some sort of institution as a medical oddity whilst you comprehend nothing doomed to overwhelming stimulus forever.
Best you could hope for is specifying an age in your life you consider to be what your physical peak was and just deal with the lack of mental development completion if that physical peak was before being roughly 25 years old.
fuck yeah.
I’ll give up all my other worldly possessions. just for more time.
time
Influence. I want to be able to convince everybody with power around the world to actively support a transition away from a system that’s based on hierarchy and coercion to a decentralized and cooperative one.
I could get behind that.
But wealth is power, and power does not corrupt so much as it attracts the corruptible. You would need to work with all manner of sociopaths and malignant narcissists. And these are people who have the least justification for existing in a polite society.
Plus, they would also continue to be parasites on civilization, and continue to pathologically hoard more wealth than they could possibly spend in a million lifetimes.
Honestly, a guillotine is a lot simpler and a lot faster. Take out the top 0.01% of civilization, and the remaining members of the Parasite Class will not fight when you implement 99% top-tier tax rates, close all of the high-wealth loopholes, and build proper social frameworks that benefit everyone.
And this starts with the political system, with a high-tech direct-participation democracy which eliminates all politicians in favour of letting everyone vote on all issues. This requires a foundation with a population that is well educated in critical thinking and bullshit detection (which would destroy all conservatism in the first place), and an economic system (even modified capitalism) that meets everyone’s needs so everyone would have the headspace to deal with societal questions without being forced to always focus on economic survival. Without this political framework, socialism/communism of any form would continue to be corrupted and co-opted by strongmen and tyrants.
Because when you look at any attempt to implement communism in the past, it never survived beyond a few months to maybe a year or so. Sure, Russia had its revolution in 1917, but by 1918 Russian communism was effectively dead; taken over by an authoritarian kleptocracy no different than a feudal system.
We’re talking anarchism, not communism
Communism can very much be decentralized, and in fact a correct implementation tends to be exactly that.
Because that’s where “communism” the term comes from - community, communal, etc…
In practice, it isn’t, usually. None of the communist states extant today or historically had a decentralized system without hierarchies.
Which is why these were never communist states, any more than North Korea is democratic, or the old East Germany was a republic.
Just because these states wore the word “communism” like a thin veneer of legitimacy, does not a communist state make.
Well I’m glad you can say that.
In my experience there are people who defend both China and “DPRK” as a communist paragon with reasoning that is although extensive dodges any real criticism of China (from either an external standpoint, or from within a communist pov).
It was my impression that such “tankies” are the primary base of communists (or common enough for it to be a problem), which pushed me away from it.
Real communism has a massive flaw in that it is too idealistic and fails to account for human corruption and the pursuit of power. Especially since communism is all about equalizing power among the people. Which is also how it has always been co-opted and destroyed from within shortly after it has been implemented.
This is why I fight against calling any current country “communist”, because those countries so severely violate everything that makes a state communist. These are authoritarian kleptocracies, nothing more. They use “communism” as a thin veneer of legitimacy over a fetid, rotting carcass of dictatorship that violently oppresses the people.
Unlimited waking hours. Imagine not feeling tired, no need for coffee or naps. I do like my naps but it’s because of that afternoon drowsy feeling. Imagine that’s gone!
That sounds like complete and utter hell
Why?? This is my answer as well. There’s just not enough time in the day to do all the things I want to do. There are so many things I haven’t even bothered trying because I know I don’t have the time to learn it well enough for it to be worthwhile.
I know my car repairs are DIYable but I don’t have the prerequisite knowledge so it will take me too long to be cost effective. If I didn’t have to sleep, I’ve got an extra 8 hours a day to learn.
Love
Yeah that’s my answer. Life is just so empty when no one loves you and you have no one to love. I’m incredibly grateful that I have a decent job and a roof over my head and food in my fridge and my life is better than it was a few years ago but except for my 2 amazing cats I have absolutely no one to love or love me and that hurts. I just want a hug and someone to tell me about their day while we eat dinner.
BJs
The restaurant? 🤔
No the warehouse store.
I’m from Texas, my wife is from New Jersey. We had a lot of confusing conversations when we were long-distance about shopping or eating at BJ’s
nope, never heard of such restaurants. the other kinds of BJs
Health bar
Hot single moms in my area.
Granted: moms that live in the Sahara desert
Living space. Imagine being able to instantiate unlimited pocket dimension instances and invite people to live there for free, would be really cool.
“What do you mean the party can’t use a bag of holding as shelter? It’s got infinite space don’t it?”
“Dependent on a fixed entry orifice!”
“Please don’t call it an orifice.”
I don’t have the organizational skills for infinite space. I would never be able to find anything.
If you’re homeless you have unlimited living space.
Well sort of. Is it really yours if you can’t be secure in your person or belongings? Being homeless wouldn’t be so bad if you had a magically powered hiding space that can be accessed from anywhere that no one else can get to if you don’t want them to.
Cheese, I love cheese.
