"Push this button for $100,000!" Edited

[Queen Michael]

I wouldn't. I can already afford bacon. Anything else is a luxury that i don't really need.

 

[sapphireofthesea]

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing expecting different results.

I turn around and go home.

Calumon: I get Jack to press it!

Jack: I'm not pressing it.

Calumon: But I want some cake... D:

I have come to enjoy your Gems on here, and this one was one of the best.

As for me, money is not that important to me, and I am not the kind to watch people suffer... so Jack, wait up man.
P.S. Calumon, we could always convince Impmon to do it

 

[sapphireofthesea]

[Addition:] Ugh, ok, this isn't about trying to beat the system. Even if you use a stick or rock or rubber suit, you still get shocked. It's a magic shocky button that dispenses money. -_- This is a question of philosophy on risk/pain vs reward, not a riddle.
[Addition 2:] Ok, you people are really ruining this by thinking too much. You can't steal the money from other people. This is about YOU and YOUR decision to press the button or not. But, yes, sitting to watch for a pattern is an acceptable answer.

You could have made it simpler and just asked "would you endure an hour of pain for 50 dollars" without any of the dumbass scenarios. *shrug*

No, I would probably not endure an hour of excruciating pain for 50 dollars. I'd do many things for 50 dollars, but I'm not *that* desperate.

The idea wasn't just 1 hour of pain = $50. The idea was to see how people weigh up the pros and cons of a given senario. Here you have a possibly for a reward with a possiblity of pain, with very little info to go on with regards to how they relate.

 

[Alssadar]

I'm not that much of a gambler...heck, not even in Fallout.
So, I'll probably call an ambulance for the guy who got shocked (I'm not just going to stand there for an hour) and probably leave a report about this event, and make sure it gets investigated...
Oh yes, I'm lawful good, in case you were wondering.
EDIT: My test now says I'm neutral, whatever.

 

[Soods]

I'd press it! Not pressing it would trouble my mind for years.

 

[Valiance]

The frist thing I thought of is why would I watch someone rolling on the floor in pain for an hour? Seriously what kind of sick freak just stares at a person in pain for a whole hour doing nothing, never mind deciding to do what he did to be in that pain. This scenario is all kinds of dumb.

This, this 100%

I was like "Wow. 'about an hour later' are you serious? Yeah I have nothing better to do, I find this button and watch some guy thrash about in extreme pain for an hour."

Obviously the correct answer is to get a bulldozer and break down the wall where the button is, thereby destroying the electric shocking unit and the cash dispenser unit. All the remaining cash will plummet into my lap, and I flee the country with my massive amount of cash, because otherwise I'd be arrested for stealing a bulldozer.

 

[snagli]

Get a little shock and recieve money? HA! I pee against power plants and my friends call me Pikachu.

Alright, that's a lie, but I'd still do it. Worst case scenario? I crap myself and have to spend that 50? on a new pair of pants.

 

[gigastrike]

Eh, probably not. I don't need the money that bad.

 

[dvd_72]

Truthfully? Probably not. Pain = bad.

Still, the scientist in me relates well to that one XKCD comic. http://xkcd.com/242/
Probably watch for a while, see if there is a pattern, and if I find a way to avoid pain through that pattern, then yea, go for it! Otherwise, not really worth it.

Then again, if I hadn't seen the guy get shocked and only recief 50 bucks, but was told the button would hurt, I'd probably give it a go. That's allot of money and could save some pain in the future. Then I'd get 50 bucks and cry before going to find the guy who set up the button and ask for the rest of my money.

 

[gigastrike]

Still, the scientist in me relates well to that one XKCD comic. http://xkcd.com/242/

Thank you for finding that! I looked and couldn't get anything!

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Yeah, I'd push it. Even if it's only £50, as a student, that's worth getting painful amounts of lightning to the face for. If I do it every couple of days, I actually end up fairly well off. And probably incapable of using any form of electronic device, but meh

 

[Connor Lonske]

I would tell others not to press it, as they would be put into such pain that the 50 dolars it rewards them with is not worth it.

It doesn't seem right to let this happen at all.

 

[Firoth]

I'd like to commend everyone who went with a "stop this madness" approach of helping or prevention of further pain. That actually falls into one of the options of the spirit of this exercise.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Spoiler

But seriously, I wouldn't do it. Electrocution isn't worth even a billion.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Spoiler: This is what came to mind

And no, I would press the big red shiny hunk of a *Zap*

DX

OW!

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

OP, First you say: 'truly put yourself into the scenario' and then you say 'this isn't about trying to beat the system'.

I have no idea what you want me to say now...

As I said, think of it as a magic button, there's no way around any possible shock. Saying that you should truly put yourself into the situation was to try to help prevent people from saying "yeah, I could totally do that" without really thinking of the pain.

With such properties the defy the laws of Physics, present it to scientists and get millions in papers on my landmark discovery (at the expense of all current science).

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Now that button is something I'd touch with a ten-foot pole
I'd probably become the guys (one who got shocked) lawyer and I would help him sue whoever made that button for 1 million dollars! (Insert Dr. Evil face here)

 

[Whateveralot]

I distrust this technology.


Let's see what happens if I press that button.. I mean, if someone was able to write such a thing down, it must be right. Right?

If the button rewards up to 100.000 in 50-bills and each time you receive one you get shocked, I will eventually have to find a way to beat the system...but meanwhile I'm having the easiest payroll in the world.

 

[Kizi]

Enough with the clever workarounds, people.
I wouldn't do it. It's not worth it because there are other ways to make money.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

For an hour of excruciating pain?!

Aww hell naww! Something that bad could probably kill you, cause a heart attack even.