Whether it’s when picking your lottery numbers or hoping an investment skyrockets, we’ve all dreamed about hitting it big and becoming really rich. But how far would people go to make it happen? A new survey finds a lot of folks would be willing to go to extremes to score a million-dollars.
Gamblizard, a Canadian casino site, asked 2-thousand Americans what they’d do for a million bucks - or a much smaller amount - and found:
- Dignity comes cheap for some people, including 13% who would be willing to publicly embarrass themselves for $5-thousand or less.
- But for $1-million, some Americans would give up love, friends and even risk their lives.
- More than half (59%) would be willing to disappear and start a new life and the same amount would ditch all devices and go off-grid.
- Another 43% would break up with their current partner, white 41% would give up sex forever for that seven-figure payday.
- Over a quarter (27%) would marry someone they didn’t love, two in 10 (20%) would take an unethical job that pays well, and 15% admit they’d even frame a friend for something they didn’t do.
- Nearly half (46%) would put their lives on the line and step into a real-life “Squid Game” for the chance to score $33-million, just like the winner on the Netflix show.
- To win that $33-million, 40% of Americans would even bankrupt a stranger, and another 46% say they’d consider it, depending on whose money was at risk.
- Fortunately, people do have some priorities, like the 10% who claim they’d reject $1-million if they couldn’t share it.
- People also say they’d refuse the money if they could never post online again (21%), could only spend it to help others (35%), they couldn’t travel or move outside their city (52%), their parents would control it (54%), or their enemy would get the same amount (38%).
- If they actually won $1-million, 57% would buy a house first, 14% would use it to treat loved ones, and 84% would happily give to charity.
- In reality, 24% think inheritance is their best chance at getting a million dollars, 20% think winning the lottery is the most likely way and 13% hope it’s with cryptocurrency.
Source: NY Post