Aside from the things you have to have like food/sunlight etc TV seems like the biggest lock to me.
All channels + all cable channels etc. Sports, news, music and everything else. It'd drive me crazy not knowing what's going on anywhere in the world and watching sport can take up heaps of time.
Taking the girl seems like the biggest waste of points. If it was a new girl every year that makes things harder.
Wish there was a way to prop bet on people's ability to stay "within their limits" the whole 10 years with access to unlimited drugs. Maybe having literally as much of the safe psychedelics as you want would kill other temptations? I'd definitely experiment with other stuff, but maybe that's not catastrophic as long as I kept busy with "healthy" drugs most of the time. Probably more likely that this type of rationalization process would mean I had no shot.
If one continuous 24 hour period outside the basement per week was allowed for 15 points (anything goes but cannot bring stuff back to your basement) would you guys take that and how would you restructure? I would go:
I think I would actually do this for $5 MM if it was possible.
I did the stock market math wrong earlier (based it on 5 years). 10 years at 10% yields $12.96 MM. At a 30% annual tax rate that is $9.83 MM and thats pretty tax inefficient. Basically the stock market is well worth it for basically 2 points of entertainment/busy value since the $5 MM cost btwn 30 and 35 points gets paid for on average.
girl not being on birth control would be a deal breaker on that one. you end up with a pregnant 18 year old and later kids who you have to figure out how to deliver and keep healthy on your own or lock 27 points up bc you need medical care and a kitchen to raise kids in a confined space.
I assume everyone would want the gun and regret the girl when she is pregnant and hormonal.