If choosing the second option guarantees I would still be alive to receive that dollar, then hell yeah.

All the compound interest calculators on websites refuse to go over 100 years so I guess I'll just take the 5 mil 😭

If, in 5 million years, we are still using dollars, then we deserve to be turned into whatever compound Zeeblorp is interested in schmearing on his bagel.

Unethical number game suggests that if you invest 5mil into property now, you'd soon afford to double that, then quadruple that, then... By the end of said term, every square meter of Earth would hold some kind of an empty apartment complex.

5 million years. It might be nice to live that long

"5 million in a year"

That year is 2143. And the US dollar has been defunct since 2028 (probably). Enjoy

I'd pick the dollar in 5 million years. At first my choice may seem absurd to financially illiterate people, but it's called "passive income", which is the key to getting rich beyond your wildest dreams.

How about 5 Billion now?

5 million years, because bread tastes better than key

It says nothing about interest, just that you'd get a dollar. There would be 5 million years of inflation that devalues that dollar and to top it all off we'd all be dead in 5 million years for roughly around 5 million years lol

Would rather get a dollar in 5 million years. I was never book smart, instead I'm money smart. It makes me more intelligent.

How the hell am i going to live long enough to collect the 5 mil?

I don't want to be alive 5 million more years to wait for my dollar. I'll take the 5,000,000 in just one year.

I have no desire to live that long. You'd see modern civilization fall and most likely massively catastrophic events play out.

Maybe if I could keep they knowledge I currently have and the body of 25 year old me then maybe I'd consider it.

If "interest money" and "advertising" disappeared the whole world would implode, or get better. Who knows?

I'm guessing that current forms of societies that recognise dollars only last two centuries at most.