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Can I use the 1 trillion dollars to make my jail stay more comfortable? If not, then I'm not interested. What would I do with 1 trillion dollars to offset the missing 10 years?

Perhaps if there was a good chance I could prolong my "still healthy" years by 20 years or more, I should take it. But it seems like disappearing for 10 years would break a lot of things. People will die, friends will move on... sounds like a rather bad deal still.

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> What would I do with 1 trillion dollars to offset the missing 10 years?

Buy every politician and the media to become the effective ruler of your country, then use your influence to improve the lives of your compatriots, overhaul the entire political system and media to add safeguards to prevent anyone from ever again doing what you did, create a just society and become a beacon of hope to the world.

Thank you, you have a very high opinion of me. I think it'd go rather worse than that.

1 quadrillion dollars.

I'm not sure if I would take it either. I would feel better earning (a fraction of) the money instead of just sitting around for it.

I would not want a quadrillion dollars in the first place, I would first try to reduce it to an amount that I can maintain relatively hassle-free and under-the-radar. But even for that perfect amount, I can't think of an age where I'd want to spent 10 years in prison, no matter how comfortable it is.

You could buy a pardon from Trump and still have almost a trillion leftover.

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