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You are given a a million dollars if you can spend it in one day. The transaction has to be finished that day, so no houses or similar. What do you buy? (lazysoci.al)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If you live in a city with a decent size manufacturing scene you could also absolutely buy a million dollars worth of metal from a supplier in town. Especially higher end alloys and metals

But I think it'd probably be easier to buy a million dollars worth of jewelry.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Gold jewelry doesn't have as much inherent value as bullion, so it would be harder to sell without losing money. And in 24 hours I could easily drive to a big city for the purchase (or just book a flight with a tiny fraction of the money).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think you have to sell it though? At least not from reading the original post

But a million is also not that much. I'd imagine any jewelry store in a mall has multiple millions worth of inventory

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I don't have to sell it, but I assume I'll want to eventually. And yeah a million isn't really that much for a precious metal shop anyways.