What Percentage Of Americans Do You Think Would Star In A Porno For $1 Million? Or Murder Someone For $1 Billion?
NY Daily News- Everybody has a price. And while that may not be entirely be true for many Americans, it’s the case for more than you may think. Many Americans admit they would be willing to go to incredible, often horrible lengths for a big fat check, according to a new survey of 1,000 people conducted by OnePoll.com that asked respondents if they would commit questionable acts for money.
The most startling stat showed that 6% of people — including a whopping 12% of men — said they would be willing to commit murder for $1 billion, while one in ten would be willing to commit arson, treason, armed robbery, mug someone with a weapon or even assist a suicide. For $1,000, 15% of people were willing to shoplift or bet on a fixed sporting event. For 13 of the 1,000 respondents, the price is enough to convince them to murder, but fewer were willing to poison a stray animal.
One in five are willing to steal a street sign, shoplift or flash a stranger for $10,000, while one in ten are willing to lie under oath, steal a bike or knowingly spend counterfeit cash for the same price. For $100,000, 25% of people to swipe a street sign, but it is also enough for one in five to forge a signature or steal from a restaurant or hotel. And for that same amount, one in ten say they would enter into a sham marriage, perform a sexual act on a stranger, evade taxes or snatch a purse.
And for a cool million bucks, one in ten Americans would commit credit card fraud, punch a stranger in the face, smuggle drugs over the border or even star in an amateur porn video. For $100,000,000, a quarter of people would be willing to donate sperm or eggs without their partner’s knowledge, forge a signature, lie to police and steal a bike, while one in ten would kick a kitten or puppy, take performance enhancing drugs to win a sporting event or beat up a stranger. Fifteen percent of people surveyed would even be willing to fake their death for that amount of cash.
Men were much more likely to be swayed by money into doing questionable things — in some cases two or more times more likely, according to the survey. For example, men were nearly three times more likely than women to perform a sex act on a stranger for $1 million or $1 billion, nearly four times as willing to commit murder for the top price and four times as likely to kick a kitten or puppy.
I have to admit that these scenarios become less and less heinous the older you get and more debt you pile up. Like I wouldn’t have even thought about doing half of this stuff when I was some dumb kid living with his parents. But now you could talk me into most of that list just because of how much easier life is with money. There is a point in your life when you go from playing the lottery because it would be cool to be reach to playing it because you don’t want to keep grinding in the rat race of life for a paycheck every two weeks.
I mean some of these are no brainers. $100,000 to steal a street sign? I would steal a street sign for free if I just liked the name of it. If I see a Kristaps Road sign, I’m pulling over and taking it without thinking twice. If a Stoolie tips me off that Tony will be shaving points for Western U tonight, I would immediately bet that game immediately. And if Pres wants to spend some of his newfound millions to see which blogger will punch a stranger in the face or star in an amateur porn, you better count on no blogs being written while everybody in the office stands in line waiting for their turn at easy cash. Sure those porns would be somewhere in the 3% rating range, but I’m sure there is some sort of sick, twisted group of people that like to watch unshowered, out of shape bloggers completely underwhelm a stranger in the sack.
Now I don’t think I have it in me to commit murder or armed robbery. Murderers are like linebackers. They aren’t made, they’re born. But I could definitely do credit card fraud. To be honest, the only thing stopping me from committing credit card fraud is knowing how to actually commit credit card fraud. I would be like Peter from Office Space looking up “money laundering” in a dictionary. And it’s not like I can just Google credit card fraud and expect not to be put on some FBI list. Shit, blogging about this definitely just put me on a list. Guess I have to find another way to support my family. Which means, yes, I would gladly lie to a cop while riding someone’s stolen bike so I could go to the clinic and anonymously give away my sperm without my wife’s knowledge for ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. Beats the shit out of playing and losing Powerball. Basically if you don’t take the money to do most of these acts, you are a sucker. Plain and simple.
Unless you kick a puppy. If you do that, I will murder your ass for a billion dollars.
P.S. Ted DiBiase was the fucking man