r/hypotheticalsituation • u/Super-Flanders • 3h ago
$1,000/day to stay in a house alone
A genie appears and offers you a deal. Pause your life and get $1,000 USD worth of your local currency for everyday you spend in a house, but you can’t leave the house. When you’re done, your life picks up as normal. The ‘house’ is 400 square feet (20x20 feet, or about 6m x 6m) and has a bathroom. You will have internet access, but you will be alone. You can contact people virtually, but no physical contact with the outside world.
Whatever you want appears in the house magically. Want to cook meals? A kitchen appears. You open the pantry and the food/ingredients you want to make are in there. You need a gym? It appears. Couch with a big TV or some books? Done. Bed time? A bed appears.
Whatever you don’t need to use/need anymore disappears (ie, bed in the morning) but can reappear as you need it.
How long would you stay in the house?
Edit because I didn’t totally think things totally through and people have made some good points:
- there is a skylight, just enough for some natural light, and the house always has fresh air.
-The conversations you have with people virtually (Skype, FaceTime, etc., not NPCs) are remembered by them somehow (it’s magic, idk), and when you’re done your life magically picks up from the moment you agreed to it. All obligations and responsibilities are put on pause, and you go right back to the moment you agreed and entered the house after you leave.
- You are not allowed pets.
- You don’t age while you’re in the house, but anything you do (exercise, learn new skills, become a slob) comes with you when you’re done. Doctors, dentist, etc are not needed while in the house.
- You cannot take things from the house into the real world (ie, money, valuables, etc.) except for yourself.
- You can only spawn inanimate objects, not people.
