# What's your choice? v.Financial Hypothetical **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 11, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533 "2008-12-11T05:09:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 8:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/61 "2008-12-11T08:05:25Z")
You want to take it in the rear end from a South Buffalo Ford pickup driver? :uhh: Paging SG crew ---
**Author:** ![SOLITUDE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@SOLITUDE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SOLITUDE)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 8:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/62 "2008-12-11T08:10:46Z")
deff a porsche bc ur guaranteed the money ---
**Author:** ![cougarspeed](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cougarspeed/32/7468_2.png) [@cougarspeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cougarspeed)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/63 "2008-12-11T08:44:25Z")
100K has a lot of taxes to pay on capital gains. Just sayin. I would take the Porsche. Then again I dont need some fagmo that is already probably defaulting payments on the Porsche giving me investment tips lol. ---
**Author:** ![khoveraki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/khoveraki/32/5131_2.png) [@khoveraki](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/khoveraki)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/64 "2008-12-11T09:01:36Z")
Spit in the execs face for almost getting his daughter killed and take a piss on his porsche? Typical moneymarket douchebags think they can throw money at everything. ---
**Author:** ![cougarspeed](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cougarspeed/32/7468_2.png) [@cougarspeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cougarspeed)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/65 "2008-12-11T09:03:17Z")
> [@khoveraki](#): > > Spit in the execs face for almost getting his daughter killed and take a piss on his porsche? > > Typical moneymarket douchebags think they can throw money at everything. I bet you live on Wall Street and know TONS of professional investors! :roflpicard: ---
**Author:** ![khoveraki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/khoveraki/32/5131_2.png) [@khoveraki](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/khoveraki)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/66 "2008-12-11T09:32:53Z")
How would you respond to someone saving your daughter’s life? Offer to help them anytime they, in turn, were in trouble? Take them out to dinner with your family? Out for some drinks? Try to befriend them? Or offer a cut in a business deal with a 10% rate of success. That seems so cold and disconnected and lamegayfest. This man lets his kid play in traffic in NYC. What’s to say his financial judgement is better than his parenting judgement? And the question is loaded. The porsche is the obvious choice for a lot of solid reasons. But they want you to bullshit and say you smooze the exec, make valuable contacts, blah blah. Or take the porsche so they can criticize you for not making long-term decisions. Harvard can blow chunks out it’s ass. \>:E ---
**Author:** ![cougarspeed](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cougarspeed/32/7468_2.png) [@cougarspeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cougarspeed)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/67 "2008-12-11T09:36:17Z")
LOL well I will give you credit. You are putting though into it and I am sure thats what they are looking for with this type of question more then a “correct” answer. ---
**Author:** ![khoveraki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/khoveraki/32/5131_2.png) [@khoveraki](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/khoveraki)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/68 "2008-12-11T09:41:54Z")
> [@cougarspeed](#): > > LOL well I will give you credit. You are putting though into it and I am sure thats what they are looking for with this type of question more then a “correct” answer. haha yeah that’s what I was going for really. Back in HS for the 6hour regents english exam they give you shitty topics and statements, to agree or disagree with. If you disagree passionately and follow it up with a perspective not typically conceived you’re guaranteed a solid grade. I think they’re kind of masochists too since the more you trash their question the higher the grade you get :X ---
**Author:** ![Minglor](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/minglor/32/7373_2.png) [@Minglor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Minglor)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/69 "2008-12-11T09:57:22Z")
I could give a fuck about learning from a financial firm. Don’t have the time for that. Harvard bullshit… I am not a college student and already have a career path. > [@newman](#): > > eh, i see that the underlying question is to see that you’d be “getting your foot in the door”… but fuck that. The money market is NOT an industry that i ever want to work in. > > My job pays well, is low stress and is consistent. Fuck that heavy pressure trading shit. Yep. Question can eat a dick 😃 The guy would be tired of dealing with me in about 48 hours… Cause I won’t stop hitting on his daughter ---
**Author:** ![sureshot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sureshot/32/7578_2.png) [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/70 "2008-12-11T09:59:25Z")
lol at some of the replies. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/71 "2008-12-11T10:01:48Z")
Lets pretend this isn’t an academic question. If I pretend that really happened to me, here’s what I would do: Follow my gut, say no thank you to both with a smile, and continue on my business for the day happy knowing that I did a good deed that day. 100,000 - I don’t want to work in finance, or live in NYC, and I can’t take a month off from my stable job to pursue a pipe dream. No dice there. I don’t need that possible $100k, and there are a million ways to make money. No thank you. Porsche - I would never accept a big handout like that. If he wanted to buy me lunch or something to say thanks, then no problem. But an $80k car? No. The natural reward for saving his kid’s life is not having to watch the kid get splattered, then spend the rest of my life wondering if I could have done something. No need to bastardize the karma of a good deed with an obscene material reward. Granted, if this were on a test I may answer according to what I think the prof is looking for, but that is my real life final answer. My payoff is the results of my effort to save the little girl’s life. No material bonus wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Minglor](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/minglor/32/7373_2.png) [@Minglor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Minglor)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/72 "2008-12-11T10:14:21Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > No need to bastardize the karma of a good deed with an obscene material reward. > Granted, if this were on a test I may answer according to what I think the prof is looking for, but that is my real life final answer. My payoff is the results of my effort to save the little girl’s life. No material bonus wanted. Fuck your karma fry. I’ll still be taking the car. ---
**Author:** ![khoveraki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/khoveraki/32/5131_2.png) [@khoveraki](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/khoveraki)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/73 "2008-12-11T10:14:42Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > My payoff is the results of my effort to save the little girl’s life. No material bonus wanted. He’s got a good point. In a couple years she’ll be legal. THEN it’s payback time. ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/74 "2008-12-11T10:16:11Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > Lets pretend this isn’t an academic question. If I pretend that really happened to me, here’s what I would do: Follow my gut, say no thank you to both with a smile, and continue on my business for the day happy knowing that I did a good deed that day. > > 100,000 - I don’t want to work in finance, or live in NYC, and I can’t take a month off from my stable job to pursue a pipe dream. No dice there. I don’t need that possible $100k, and there are a million ways to make money. No thank you. > > Porsche - I would never accept a big handout like that. If he wanted to buy me lunch or something to say thanks, then no problem. But an $80k car? No. The natural reward for saving his kid’s life is not having to watch the kid get splattered, then spend the rest of my life wondering if I could have done something. > > No need to bastardize the karma of a good deed with an obscene material reward. > > Granted, if this were on a test I may answer according to what I think the prof is looking for, but that is my real life final answer. My payoff is the results of my effort to save the little girl’s life. No material bonus wanted. you know how I know you’re gay? ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/75 "2008-12-11T10:30:03Z")
:tif: Call it stubborn pride. I don’t like handouts. I don’t trust handouts. I don’t feel that doing something that any decent person would do is something that deserves a huge reward. ---
**Author:** ![ryanmcell](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ryanmcell/32/7510_2.png) [@ryanmcell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ryanmcell)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/76 "2008-12-11T10:36:34Z")
> [@LAFENGAS](#): > > the rewards/hook-up/contacts of rubbing elbows with potentially high profile people ,minus any direct financial gains, can far exceed the $80K you’ll get from selling a porshe. The chance of getting $100K would be a bonus. > > …but i could be reading into this a bit deeper than intended. I was thinking the same thing. Especially if it was in a field you could pursue and use the contacts to help succeed. From a purely financial decision I’d take the car and sell and invest the money. ---
**Author:** ![ryanmcell](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ryanmcell/32/7510_2.png) [@ryanmcell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ryanmcell)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/77 "2008-12-11T10:39:09Z")
Also this reminds me of all the people who Extreme Home Makeover build those extravagent houses for, pay off their mortgage, and give them money for utilities, yet some how within a year the family goes belly up and has to get rid of the house. Imagine taking the 80k car and you make 30k/year. The upkeep alone on it would break you, so selling it would be the only option. ---
**Author:** ![khoveraki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/khoveraki/32/5131_2.png) [@khoveraki](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/khoveraki)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/78 "2008-12-11T10:39:30Z")
How many of us would take the car and sell it and use it to pay for stupid shit for our own car? I would. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/79 "2008-12-11T10:45:44Z")
well the opportunity that arises from joining some project that may net you 100k leads to more 100k opportunities! or at least some rich friends who will invite you to their gigantic houses! But that car may make me cream my pants on sight. Need to know what I’m working with. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533/80 "2008-12-11T10:48:07Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > :tif: Call it stubborn pride. I don’t like handouts. I don’t trust handouts. I don’t feel that doing something that any decent person would do is something that deserves a huge reward. I wouldn’t take it from someone who couldn’t afford to give it. Some wallstreet douche bag who lets his kid play in traffic because he’s too busy playing on his blackberry while watching is own reflection in the paint of his Porsche… yeah, thanks for the car. We’ll call it even for where my 401k has gone this year. 🙂 [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533.md?page=3) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-your-choice-v-financial-hypothetical/59533.md?page=5)