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Wealth, power, or talent?
You awake from a dream where a Ninja Space Cowboy Wizard gave you $5,000,000. What woke you up? Why, it's a Ninja Space Cowboy Wizard. He makes you an offer. You can choose one of the following three:
Wealth - NSCW gives you Fifty Billion Dollars. You will never be left wanting in this world. You can use your money to influence those around you.
Power - NSCW makes you superhuman. You are given super strength, speed, and can fly. You aren't invincible though. While you can take on entire armies alone, a few WMDs can take you out. You can use your powers for good or evil.
Talent - NSCW gives you the ability to become an instant expert at anything you do. You can be a musical virtuoso, an engineering genius, a sex god, or all of the above and then some. You'll be able to inspire those around you.
Of course some of these overlap. With wealth, you can dedicate your time to becoming talented or you can build your own iron man suit. With power, you can become wealthy, same with talent, but none are as good as the genuine article.
So which do you choose: wealth, power, or talent and why? What would you do?
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Edited by Uberdawg: 2/8/2014 8:08:44 PMI would choose in this order: 1. Power. Power grants instant immortality (not in the literal sense), the deepest of all human desires. Even talent and money cannot grant it in the way to become the first and last superhuman would. In one week you could join the most famous humans of all time. And money could come easily, although not as easily as the other two. Plus you'd be hella popular with women, long as you didn't accidentally annihilate them during coitus. 2. Talent. This is extremely close to power for me but I think it needs more fleshing out. Can you instantly become highly talented at anything... or the [i]best[/i]? How would one acquire talent? If you wanted to become the greatest physicist, would you still have to read a ton of books? If not the best, how long would it take to get there? As profitable as it would be to be very good at speaking a dozen languages, a fantastic salesman, and a tremendous martial artist, it does not exactly rival being something the world has never seen before. Talent could be the best, or not, depending on the specifics. 3. Money. The problem with money is that it kills drive, and money unearned doesn't feel as good as money earned, which the other two give the capability to do even if you're "cheating."
