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[–] oedipusaurus_rex ago 

I don't want to retire. I love what I do for a living. A million bucks is more money than I know what to do with, to say nothing of 100 million. It makes more sense to me to take the million than to gamble with that much money.

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[–] SocratesOP ago 

It's not gambling since you didn't put any money up against it. It is just a chance. Obviously you don't have to retire, that's just a personal plus I see out of the 100mil.

If the trade off was you are either broke or you get the 100mil then I could see how this is gambling, but not getting it would mean you keep working at the job you say you love. Doesn't sound so bad to me

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[–] oedipusaurus_rex ago 

Either way it isn't bad. My thinking though is that there isn't much of a difference between 1 mil and 100 mil to me. Either way it's an obscene amount of money. 1 million is about 16 years worth of salary at a decent paying job. I also get that 100 mil is 1600 years salary. At that level though we're talking about an amount of money that I honestly cannot comprehend. Either way the money would be going into a nest egg since I can't think of anything that I would spend it on, so it's better for me to take the 100% chance of gaining it than a 50/50 shot of getting it.