Would you rather receive $2 for every French fry you eat per day or $1 for every push-up you do a day?

a year ago by SnokenKeekaGuard to c/wouldyourather

Very health focused. And I know how I can make more money...

kvasir476 32 points a year ago

Fuck it. I'm going push-ups. If French fries were delicious and made me money I'd weigh 1000 pounds.

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SnokenKeekaGuard 10 points a year ago

Exactly and now there's motivation to do smth healthy

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lowleekun 4 points a year ago

Yeah same. Also i have somewhat lost interest in having a lot of money. I want to get by but i absolutely despise the fucking shit out of our economic model.

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Brainsploosh 16 points a year ago

Easy!

Pick french fries, develop bulimia, infinite money glitch.

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Bad_Engineering 16 points a year ago

French fries average 4-5 Calories each. If you eat 138 french fries a day at $2 each, that comes to $275 a day at a health cost of 621 Calories. Do that every day and you would be making $100,375 a year, just to eat what amounts to 2 medium fries from Mcdonalds everyday.

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Albbi 6 points a year ago

Yeah but imagine how you'd look if you did 100 pushups a day. You'd be making $365k $36.5k a year. I haven't done pushups in a while but I think throughout the day I could fit 100 in.

Edit: whoops. Still not bad though.

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Bad_Engineering 12 points a year ago

What's to say you can't spend your free time working out after you spend your 10 min a day "working" on french fries.

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DragonTypeWyvern 2 points a year ago

Yeah the calorie budget for a man actually getting in an hour of exercise a day is 3000 kcals, fries are definitely the smart option even for healthy people.

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Phil_in_here 5 points a year ago

Roll that back, son. 100 × 365 is 365 hundred, not 365 thousand.

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Albbi 6 points a year ago

Right thanks. Gotta drink some coffee before doing math.

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Phil_in_here 3 points a year ago

The long term trick is find who sells fried with the most short broken pieces, then buy multiple and sort out the long ones to give/throw away.

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agamemnonymous 2 points a year ago

Just go to Steak n Shake for those skinny fries.

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Bad_Engineering 2 points a year ago

Or make your own fries out of those tiny red potato's.

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Phil_in_here 2 points a year ago

Now we've got a philosophical debate about the minimum dimensions for fried potatoes to constitute a fry on our hands!

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Bad_Engineering 4 points a year ago

A hashbrown is just a matrix of tiny interwoven fries.

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Eggscellent 7 points a year ago

I'd use the French fry money to buy more French fries

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SnokenKeekaGuard 4 points a year ago

Infinite French fry glitch

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Pyr_Pressure 6 points a year ago

Well, French fries would be faster to earn money, but you would need to do approximately 30+ pushups per French fry to maintain your weight

I think I might actually choose the pushups. Won't get rich, but you probably wouldn't have to work anymore other than doing like 10 pushups every 10 minutes for 8 hours.

Your annual earnings would then be about $124k a year minus whatever time you take for vacations and holidays.

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southsamurai 6 points a year ago

Them fries looking pretty good now that I'm ancient and my bones creak

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SnokenKeekaGuard 5 points a year ago

(At 22)

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agamemnonymous 5 points a year ago

French fries obviously. I can exercise to make up for it.

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DragonTypeWyvern 3 points a year ago

On the flip side, you can't outrun a bad diet, so at a certain point you can't scale the fries and stay healthy while you could conceivably be doing thousands of pushups eventually.

I think at that point though you run into the reality that injury and aging would eventually affect your pushup capability, possibly even make it impossible with a serious accident, but the injuries that make you incapable of eating fries in some form are more limited and serious.

Fries are ironically the safer bet in most circumstances even if pushups might have a potentially higher income.

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agamemnonymous 2 points a year ago

Yeah but thousands of pushups take longer. I can eat fries while I'm doing other things

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Perspectivist 4 points a year ago

Can I air fry the french fries?

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SnokenKeekaGuard 6 points a year ago

They have to be deep fried atleast once. The way frozen fries are. Fried once and frozen. Then you can 'reheat' them in the air frier if you so wish

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Eggscellent 4 points a year ago

I'm rethinking it... Take the French fry money, but do two push-ups for every French fry you eat.

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SnokenKeekaGuard 4 points a year ago

At that point, why not just do the pushups directly??

For free French fries lol

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HubertManne 3 points a year ago

french fry. I could eat 100 a day right now im pretty sure bit it would take a long time to get to 200 pushups if I even could get there.

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olafurp 3 points a year ago

Really depends on the thickness of the French fries and quality of pushups.

If it's those chonky fish and chips fries I'd choose pushups since otherwise I'd have an eat a ton to wake a living.

If I can do partial pushup on my knees I'd also do pushups since with some training a 1000 per day is doable in 20m.

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Triumph 3 points a year ago

I would rather receive free mangoes and eat nothing but mangoes.

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SnokenKeekaGuard 4 points a year ago

100% reasonable and acceptable answer. I will be providing the mangoes

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Uiop 1 point a year ago

Please, gice me some too, i love those

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pinball_wizard 2 points a year ago

I do earn at least $2 for every french fry I eat, and I can report that it's nice.

Technically, I also earn hundreds of dollars per push-up, because I do not remember the last time I did a push-up...

Edit: I think I need to say "no" to the fry deal though. I'm not great at moderation, and I already really like fries.

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CanadaPlus 2 points a year ago

You know that thing in The Martian where they say you can live on just potatoes? Time to test that...

I know you're all making good arguments for the other way, but I really hate pushups. And am only meh on fries.

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noxypaws 1 point a year ago

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agent_nycto 1 point 10 months ago

I can eat French fries when I'm old but might not be able to do pushups when I'm old, and French fries pay more. I don't HAVE to eat French fries, and I could cook them as healthy as they can be made, and eat them when I want some quick cash. I could be paid $200 as part of my lunch in about ten minutes or half that for working out. If the pushups paid more then maybe I'd do that, but the payoff isn't as worth it from a financial/effort point of view.

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