Alt: A photo with the text “Would you press this button?” And two images representing options: option 1 is “50% chance of becoming a billionaire” with an image of a shovel full of money, and the other “50% chance of becoming this” being an image of Astolfo, a character from Type-Moon’s “Fate” anime/manga/VN series noted for crossdressing as a cute girl, and is commonly identified as a LGBT icon.

    • Kate-ay@lemmy.world
      25·
      2 months ago

      If I get the money I’ll just use it to start my life over as a cute and mousy cottage core lady.

  • Cossty@lemmy.world
    55·
    2 months ago

    If I actually became cartoon style femboy in real life, becoming billionaire wouldn’t be that hard imo.

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
      291·
      2 months ago

      You’d have to abandon all of your ethical principles, and then you’d face the problem of how to keep the wealth you generate rather than having it sucked up by all the existing billionaires who would chew you up, extract every penny they could then spit you out, which is extra difficult because now you’re in an intersection of minorities.

      And even if you succeeded you’d be a billionaire, and I don’t think those people are actually very fulfilled.

        • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
          22·
          2 months ago

          That thought is, and I cannot stress this enough, legitimately horrifying. Do you know how many of them went to Epstein’s island?

          These are people who can make nearly anything happen to you, and they don’t even have to lift a finger.

          I feel like you just told me that Mordor will be great because you’ll just put on the One Ring, get Sauron’s attention then flash him your tits and he’ll be horny so you’ll be golden.

            • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
              13·
              2 months ago

              Gallant as that is, I don’t think it’s either/or with these people, I think it’s both/and.

              They have to keep exploiting and consuming everything and everyone. Whilst I understand that the rapacious drive to infinite growth is systemic, I’m convinced that one of the mechanisms that keeps it going is their own alienation, the deep emptiness and disassociation that comes from living in a world where nobody can tell them no, and they have to fill that hole with something. After your fifth mansion, third private jet and second mega yacht, just buying things doesn’t do it, and why did they accumulate so much if they’re just miserable anyway?

              The only thing left is hurting people with impugnity, because that proves that you have power.

      • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        2 months ago

        you could donate a hundred thousand a year to charities, use two hundred thousand each year inflation adjusted, and have it last until you die, probably.

        • Didros@beehaw.org
          1·
          2 months ago

          Assuming you put the money in a basic ass savings account at bank of America (average us savings account gives .46%apy) thar is a gain of 4.6 MILLION a year. So you would need to out spend that just to start losing money. High interest accounts can be up around ten times that at 5% so 50 million a year would need to be spent to lose money.

          Stock market averages 10% yearly returns not including dividends. So a cool 100 million a year in play money.

          Brought to you by math gang that knows how insane being a billionaire is.

          • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            0·
            2 months ago

            money in a savings account generally looses value as it doesn’t usually keep up with inflation or cost of living increases. Someone who invests in the stock market will probably do quit well on average, however the 1920s existed as did the recent fluctuations of 2008 and 2020-2021 which could lead to large losses. A billion is a huge amount of money, however can still be invested or spent irresponsibly.

            • Didros@beehaw.org
              3·
              2 months ago

              Laws have changed since 1920, and even with 2008 and 2020 every ten year period will still see 10% growth from a diversified portfolio.
              And even if 4.6 million doesn’t buy what it did last year you can spend less than that for the compound interest to overtake inflation easily.

  • harmsy@lemmy.world
    40·
    2 months ago

    Guess I’m pressing the button, then. Either I become a billionaire and can do whatever I want, or I become a femboy, make bank with photos, videos, and streams of myself, and use the money to do slightly less of whatever I want.

    • First Majestic Comet@lemm.ee
      10·
      2 months ago

      I think you might still need to have HRT if you want the other effects of feminization HRT, like breasts. Might get you closer though.

          • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
            5·
            2 months ago

            That’s actually a beautiful saying. I’m gonna hang onto that for a while and if it continues to ring true I’m gonna start using it.

            • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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              2 months ago

              It’s about how culture isn’t property. It belongs to all of us, like language. It cannot be owned. When a movie shifts an entire industry, and the director still thinks he’s free to dictate what’s in it, twenty years later, artists need reminding: you shared this. You gave it to us, or sold it to us. It cannot possibly be yours alone. We outnumber you. As time goes on, some of us have spent more time thinking about it than you ever did.

              When a work has influenced people, nobody gets to take that away - least of all the artist. They don’t even get to tell people how to feel about it at-the-time. Trying to erase a work entirely is intolerable censorship. Nothing that any human being put effort into deserves to be lost forever. Not even the stuff that belongs behind a little wall at some somber museum. You are allowed to walk away from it, to disavow it, to never again be associated with it. If you feel that you are no longer the person who made it, vaya con dios. But then who the fuck do you think you are, telling me I can’t continue to love it?

              • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
                3·
                2 months ago

                Yup, I agree with all of that. Also though from the perspective of the artist, I prefer to think of the act of creation as not coming fully from the artist, but moving through them.

                Like people used to not say someone is a genius, but that they have a genius. It was basically the same thing as a genie - a helper.

                Also the book Steal Like an Artist has a lot about how you should stop trying to be totally original and just accept that your work is and will always be a mish-mash of different influences. It even advises you to simply try to emulate your heroes, and in failing to do so accurately, you’ll find your own unique voice.

                Another way to think of creativity is that it’s like a kind of temporary possession that you have to exorcise by creating the thing, I call this the “taking a shit” model of creativity.

                This isn’t to demean artists or their work, I find it takes the pressure off of me presonally.