Poll: Would accept to live in this village/reality show for a year for 10 million $

[TonyVonTonyus]

Lets see. Free house, free food, free stuff, don't need a job, I don't need to talk to people, I get 10 million dollars when its over and all I have to do is let people watch me all the time...well I think that's a no brained for what I'd do. Besides what do I care is random people see me do something potentially embarrassing or "private"? I'm never going to meet them.

 

[grimgor42]

The trick is being as boring and as quiet as possible. Keep to yourself without doing anything at all worth watching. Eventually people will not spy on you as much when there are more interesting people to watch. Then just hang out for a year and you're set.

 

[Exterminas]

They have that concept in eurpean Television already. It is called BigBrother. People there earn way less and have to humiliate themselves.

Trust me, watching people in the bathroom got boring about three episodes in.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Sure. Just find blind spots or put shit up to obscure the camera in the bathroom and I'd probably forget they existed within a week or two if the cameras aren't too noticeable.

Though it would be a year without sex or masturbation, so that might make things very difficult for me...

 

[jumjalalabash]

No I couldn't handle the stress of someone watching me read books, watch piles of DVDs, or jogging. Its just too much man! /sarcasm

 

[RatRace123]

A lack of privacy for a year, with no obligation to work and everything catered for me? For US$10 million?

It's a no-brainer, really.

For me, it'd be a year of (from the description) watching DVDs of classic comedy, drinking nice booze, and teaching myself a new language, and/or reading vast numbers of interesting books, with relatively few distractions.

You'd get used to it in two weeks.

I was gonna say no, but when you put it that way, sounds like paradise. Sign me up.

 

[tendaji]

You have to throw in a twist like reality shows do. Like every month the neighborhood loses something. Like the first month, all electronics (computers, TVs, not fridges or kitchen appliances) are disabled from use. The second month, something else happens, and so on to put pressure on the people to want to leave but they can't. Maybe even have it where once every month, your most embarrassing video is shown to everyone, or a secret you have about everyone in the community is revealed, that way internal strife is increased. I mean you can't just give away $10 mill with such an easy routine...

 

[Free Thinker]

Hells to the yes! As chairman of the village, I now call everyday Monday is now "No Pants Day"!

 

[TheTurtleMan]

Of course I would do it! It's 10 million dollars, no obligations, and anything I want. I think I could sacrifice my privacy for that. Although it may be awkward whenever I take a shower or watch porn. Not for me but for the viewers, I'm getting paid so I wouldn't care.

 

[Coldster]

So I get to be famous AND rich!? Where do I sign up!?

 

[Shoqiyqa]

You don't want to know what I'd be willing to do for 10 million :/ So yeah >.>

Hey, that reminds me of a joke...

Bill Gates walks up to a REALLY hot girl in a club and says "hey, I'm a billionare, I'll pay you $50 million to come back to my room for the night and have lots of kinky sex".

The girl says "sure".

Gates replies, great, now would you do it for $200?

"What happened to $50 mil"?

"Well, we already have established what you are, now we are just haggling over price"

Not so much a joke as a story about Winston Churchill, presumably adapted for a modern American audience who've never heard of him.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Winston+Churchill+"established+what+kind+of+woman+you+are"

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Question re: OP's proposition: will I be able to see how many views I got later easily, or will I have to search youtube for clips of me and tot up the views there?

It's not like I'm planning to go a year without a shower or an orgasm, so .....

You know, some people will watch just about anything.

Actually, rule 34 applies here, with a variation: "If you do it on webcam, it's porn for somebody." Presumably, it's porn for somebody who knows you're going to have $10M if you manage the full year. That creates some interesting personal security implications.

Also: no mention has been made of law enforcement in this neighbourhood.

I voted yes. I think I'd skip out to the mountains in Vietnam and set up a village school and a hikers' hotel or buy a relatively remote chalet in Austria and create an awesome garden or something, rather than sticking around a TV-saturated and English-speaking country, afterwards.

 

[AlphaEcho]

I was fine until you say people can connect whenever. Which means taking a shit = forty people watching.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Ouch. I don't think I can do that...even for $10 million. I need to play my XBOX and/or have internet access for things that...well, a guy needs to see every couple of weeks or so. >_> <_< What? Don't judge me.

 

[viranimus]

Nope. Reality tv is the bane of entertainment and I would not participate in the proliferation of something so worthless and vapid. Not for 10 million dollars, Not for 10 billion dollars.

If you remove the reality tv from the equation and as for giving up privacy, meh I really could care less if someone wanted to watch me meander around my house excreting bodily fluids and sitting in front of a computer/console for hours on end daily cause that would be just about all I would do. So the limit of nothing to do but watch other people would have to fill up all the parts of the day I could not sleep away.

 

[SaberXIII]

Well, I'm British, and therefore $10,000,000 is 64% as good as it sounds, but it's still more money than I would ever make in my entire life ever. So, screw it, count me in, at least I'll know I'm not the only unknowingly wanking onto a camera. If nothing else, give it 6 weeks to get used to it and it'll be a piece of piss to accomplish.

 

[Dags90]

a guy needs to see every couple of weeks or so. >_> <_< What? Don't judge me.

Bank statements? You can get those in the mail.

 

[mada7]

Yea, I'd do it. Hell, to watch me would be unbearably boring. I'm sure they'd pay me the money just to leave early so they could get someone interesting to participate.

Don't need internet access to play Skyrim. I'm set.

Im pretty much in the same boat as you but substitute Valkyria Chronicles and Mass Effect for Skyrim. The only real difference between my quality of life in that village and how things are for me now would be the quality and quantity of free porn Id get for a year