My salary.
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Stocks. Doest matter they do, it will be 100% profit when selling.
Actually 🤓☝️ it's more like ∞% profit or undetermined
Still would only be 100% profit. Costed nothing to get them, so when you sell them, they will be 100% profit.
Profit = (sell price - buy price)/buy price
If buy price is zero, the division is undefined or the profit is "infinite" because you spent nothing to acquire the asset.
Having a profit of 100% would mean just selling at double the buy price, but nothing stops you at selling at 3x or 4x, having a profit of 200% or 300%.
To give a better example, try with lower and lower "buy price" (approaching zero). You'll see that the profit goes unlimitedly up
I may be wrong, no attacks intended (better to specify lol)
I think everyone in this thread is right. We seem to be disagreeing over the use of the article 'a'.
The OP said it would be "100% profit" which is correct. This is in the general sense that they paid nothing so that any price would be pure profit.
You're talking specific numbers, hence it is "a 100% profit". Depending on the price it could be any percentage like "a 213.75% profit".
You're both correct! It's funny how English works, right?!
Pretty much. No costs of buying the shares so it would be all profit.
Never thought of that, cool!
You got a stock that is low value and hard to sell on a company that doesn't seems stable.
Share buyback programs.
Sell the shares back to the company rather then on the open market.
what if you can't sell them? happened to me in a videogame once and I was stuck with thousands upon thousands of fish.
As a shareholder I would discuss the options of a share buyback program with the company.
No doubt they would prefer that then dumping a large chunk of them on the open market.
Although that would depend on the shares I got.
After reading through the other answers, I'm not sure of what to make of the fact that my first thought was coffee.
If you spend a lot on coffee, you can save up a lot by the end of the year
My first thought was a local swimming pool. But infinite stocks would also be cool, I guess.
My mortgage.
Pain is shared
Alternative answer:
If I can get my money for nothing then I would like my checks for free.
Edit: It's actually "chicks" for free. Also the uncut version of this song is offensive like only something four decades old could be.
🤔 You mean like... Just getting money for free?
Food.
My thought as well.
Healthy, prepared food. A whole year of not having to think about what to cook, or cooking, or chopping, or cleaning up after preparing food. So awesome.
Gold
how much gold do you go through?
Healthcare. I’d get so much done and settled to be honest
The yearly salary of the worlds highest paid person, bi-monthly.
Mortgage/rent. Fuckers have ruined the market completely refusing to build.
Why lower profits when you can cartel instead?
Lottery tickets
Brilliant idea, I must admit 😀
I honestly rapidly went through a bunch in my head, my first one was real estate, but then I was like.. "no, I'd need to get tenants in that fast cause that gets taxed separately, not just income tax", so then my backups were either gift cards, or lottery tickets :3
I ultimately went with the lottery cause it's less limited than gift cards, and even if they don't pay out all the time they have enough small payouts to get you hooked™ so at no cost even what would be putting me in the negatives irl would be profits in the hypothetical :3
And maybe if I make enough I can just hire people to check the tickets for me in the long(er) run hah
One never knows. It is still a good tactic you may get some cash here and there 😀
Life
In general? Or more like anything which is needed to live?
I feel like "in general" would be the same as "everything needed to live" but I suppose if you wanted to then there could be an argument made otherwise.
Anyway to actually answer the question I meant I would like to not pay for anything to continue living.
Sex.
But, you can get sex for free... Or? At least through the apps. Just need to find someone up to it.
Free rent/mortgage if basic necessities are allowed. If not... a Michelin Inspector permit (and associated training courses), I do like some good culinary experiences
Either my council tax or my utility bills.
Go for the utility bills. Just a piece of advice 😊
Air.
That's literally what it would be.
Diesel
A safe place to sleep.
Weed
KETAM--
No, actually, I'd take music. I don't mean streaming, but buying albums to own. At that point, that's a subscription service gone.
I'd also take ammo for no reason in particular.
(I'm assuming crypto assets for unlimited money is cheating)
All I can eat tacos.
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