Always take the upfront cash! Currency devalues over time so that 7 billion could be worthless by tomorrow. But $19 invested correctly today could be worth a trillion dollars by tomorrow.

Typical askreddit post, lol.

Would you [moderately be inconvenienced for a somewhat long-ish time] for [ridiculous amount of money]?

Right up there with all the “have you ever sexy sexed the sexything? Would you if a sexyperson was involved?”

7B in funds managed by Situationally Unaware

I’d wait until 23:58 to make my decision and then go for $19 because who knows what can happen in 2 seconds

$19 right now, obviously. If I get hit by a bus and die between now and tomorrow, then I'll have ended up with nothing

Can I borrow against the 7 billion? Ill find someone to lend me 1 million today and ill give them 2 million tomorrow

Spoiler - I'm from future, very next week to be exact, and I have some news for Ya.

Tomorrow, exactly 18 hours from I'm commenting now, Epstein files will leak. Whole murica will collapse within next 2 hours. Dollars as currency will collapse instantly too!

7 billions dollar will be worthy less than 19 today, if You manage to exchange the currency to any other - get value of $19.

Actually, unsure, depends if 7 billions gonna be in coins, paper or digital money. That amount of paper could be worth little more than $19 (that paper is not burnable, so still meh), coins, as metal, should be worthy way more.

$19 right now. It says "7 billions dollars", and there's no real currency called billions dollars.

19, duh, it's a bigger number than 7.

I'm about to go to sleep. I'll sleep better knowing I have $19, but probably wouldn't sleep at all knowing $7 billion is showing up tomorrow. I don't think I'm cut out for the billionaire life, but I'm prepared to try.

Nice try J. G. Wentworth

Both. First timeline I take the billion, invented time travel and enter the second timeline to go get the $19 too.

19 dollar fortnite card, who wants it?

Tick. tick, tick people. Let's go, now! There may not be another tomorrow. /s

I'll take the 7 billions dollars tomorrow. Even if it's some Ugadogobindan dollar where 7 billions of it is worth less than $19, the max I lose is $19, so I'm gonna take that risk.

I'm getting $7,000,000,019. How? Well I take the $19 right now for starters. Then I spend the next 24 hours trying to think of a plan to secure the 7B as well.

$19. I've seen enough evil genie movies. It will never be tomorrow, it's always today. Tomorrow is the promise of today.

$19 right now. Then I have it right now. Tomorrow never comes so I wouldn't get that 7B.

delayed gratification is only unlocked when you have over 250 iq (which I have) so I pick

A bird in hand is worth 2 in the bush. Boom now I have 14 billion dollars

I can wait til tomorrow. 🤷‍♂️

I dunno, I could really go for a pizza right now...

I’m worried about the taxes due on that $7 billion. With tax brackets and that math, I’d probably come out ahead with the $19. This is why I’ve declined every raise I’ve been offered, don’t want to slip into that next tax rate.

The horse's name was friday

Always take the lump sum!

Income or debt?

I don't think I'd want to be a billionaire. A hundred million? Yeah. But, any more than that I think fucks too hard with the head. It's an impossible amount to understand, and the power that comes with it corrupts.

You might say, "then, just give most of it away", and yeah, that makes sense, but I don't know how fast it happens. I don't know if I'd be able to. I think once I realized it was really mine, it might be hard to "just give it away". I don't know what that corruption feels like.

And, I'm not sure I want to.

No. I'll take the $19 and I'll leave being a billionaire to the people who handle it so well.

... or $1 for grammar lessons.