re: Which button would you press?

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That said, I'd sell my opportunity to press the button to someone for $50,000,000.

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they would be stupid not to take it. but why would you give up half and not just press it yourself?

I am sticking with 1 million for sure

Is this some sick joke? They both look grey to me.

Easy choice for me. Red! But I'm old.

Idk but I'm gonna hit the black button at Lauberge tonite

um, obviously it is. im pressing red while you get the price is right fail horn.

A harder decision is 100% chance at 10 mil or 50% chance at 100 mil.

You retiring with 1 mil? I'm not, therefore it's not changing my life much.

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I took all emotion out of it. That's why I would choose green. Bc the estimated value of pushing green is $50mil while estimated value of red is only $1mil

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While I get the estimated vale of the button, there is no actual guaranteed money though. You have a 50% chance of making 100 million but you also have a 50% chance of making and/or hearing zilch, nada, no soup fo you, thanks for playing, cue the game show trumpet/trombone "you lost" music" ahhh you get the picture by now. You push that button and you are only getting 100 million or nothing at all.

There is no button worth 50 million unless you figure out a way to rig the system and only push the button down half way...

This is why I brought up emotion. You only get one chance to press the button. Do you want 1 million right now.... or do you want the possibility of getting nothing or 100 million?

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$1MM isn't life changing. $100MM is.

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I guess that really depends on where you are currently in your life.
I'm 40 years old and I've been building a retirement for myself as well as a college fund for my son. If I had a million dollars, I'd use that to pay off my debts and bolster my child's college fund thus more of my income would go to savings and less of my eventual retirement would go to mortgage and possible debt.

It's not flashy, but it's certainly life changing.

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Green.
If it hits then you're well off.
If it doesn't, you're no worse off.

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But what if you look at it this way...

Since the million is guaranteed -- it's yours. You are essentially giving that up or away for the 50% chance of $100 mil. So basically if you choose green and get nothing, you've lost $1 million.

Now if it was something like:
Red button is a 99% at $1 million
Green button is 50% at $100 million
I pick green every time because the lower value isn't guaranteed even though odds make it almost so. There's still that 1% chance you don't get anything so if there's any risk of nothing, I go with the larger possible payout.

I always pick the sure thing which is why I'll never make millions on the stock market. I don't like risks when it comes to money.

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While I get the estimated vale of the button, there is no actual guaranteed money though. You have a 50% chance of making 100 million but you also have a 50% chance of making and/or hearing zilch, nada, no soup fo you, thanks for playing, cue the game show trumpet/trombone "you lost" music" ahhh you get the picture by now. You push that button and you are only getting 100 million or nothing at all.

There is no button worth 50 million unless you figure out a way to rig the system and only push the button down half way...

This is why I brought up emotion. You only get one chance to press the button. Do you want 1 million right now.... or do you want the possibility of getting nothing or 100 million?

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Wait, so those guys are being serious? I just assumed they were being sarcastic. Please let it be that they were being sarcastic.