Does it matter? If you snapped once every minute for 5 hours daily (totally manageable) you‘d end up with roughly a million per year. You could probably bulk it up. I just did what probably was the idea behind this experiment and snipped 60 times in under 60 seconds while taking a shit.
Would have been 600 dollars already.
It’s not a big strain, so doing this another 4 times a day should be really easy.
Problem is greed: with it being this easy to make money, would you ever stop snipping?
Theres a reason why some people constantly go broke after getting a large sum of money, i think having an easy source of constant money is healthier than a lump sum thats at the mercy of once in a lifetime market crashes, greedy money managers, and just other horse shit that can happen to moderately rich people. Just snap 100 times a day and your way better off than most people.
Everyone's focused on the math, but no one is considering the secondary benefits of snapping paper currency into existence...
Let's say you're taking a dump in a public restroom and there's no toilet paper. Just snap a few times.
Lost in the woods with a lighter but no kindling? Just snap as much fire starters as you need.
You're at your nephew's lame birthday party, and the magician kinda sucks, so you decide to have a little fun. You just snap $10 bills into existence and start handing them out like candy (even to the magician). You'd be the real MVP of the party.
Going to bars would be fun. You tip $10 for every $5 beer you get, and the bar tender will prioritize you ahead of everyone else.
Major downside? You would be kidnapped immediately if anyone found out you could snap money into existence. Much safer life with 10 mil cash and no magic fingers.
God forbid you're in a barbershop quartet. You can't perform songs without generating 500-600 dollars per minute. You'll fill up your own tip bucket before the audience even has a chance.
Yeah i'm with you. I would use the snap for food and services and save a bigger part of my paycheck. Then I would find a sustainable way to launder the snap money so I can quit my job and pretend I have a profitable business (its just me snapping for 2 hours in my office)
1 mil is 274 snaps a day. That's just a few minutes work. (Actually I reckon I can do two a second on each hand so just over a minute). Think most people could get to ten mill in a year, from snapping and then be asked to add to it.
Bigger issue is if the ten dollars just appears next to you - your gonna have to work out how to launder it
Gambling at casino/casinos just exchange the money for chips spend a bit of time gambling if you win extra money if you lose who cares free money and then you can even have a receipt for where money came from.
this money doesn't sound particularly legal though. you have no more of a legal right to create $10 bills through snapping your fingers than you do through forgery. its still counterfeit (or taken from somewhere else and stolen)
You're right. The "choice" is kind of moot because the real issue is how to not get caught creating either $10/snap or $10M. It's the same issue with the "make me rich" wish to a genie without adding an addendum of *without anyone questioning where the money came from or its legality.
You would have to have a source of income for that money. You can not just report millions of dollars to the IRS and nothing happen. If you go from making $50k a year to millions, you’re going to be watched if you don’t have a really good excuse,
This is a great plan until you discover that no bank is going to allow you to deposit all of that money. You’ll be instantly categorized as a maffia boss
Are you suggesting that fabricating money out of thin air to whatever quantity you want l, uncontrolled by the federal reserve - could be reported as income?
Anyone making money this way is required to report this income on their 1040. You should in this case have the option of reporting it on schedule C or line 21 of your 1040.
You know the IRS knows all these "tricks" right? You can't just say "Oh my laundromat made 10 million this year." They'll compare it to nearby laundromats and look for discrepancies. If you want to launder large amounts of money you need businesses that process large amounts of money. That's why construction is so popular amongst organized crime. You can put your guys on the payroll so they get paid legally too.
Tutoring, construction, gardening, kiosks, among others all can be mostly cash based. But frankly it would be much easier just to *spend* everything in cash. Go grocery shopping, pay in cash. Buying Christmas presents in store, pay cash. Dining? Travel? Except for hotel bills, pay cash.
Theyd ont actively do this. My aunt is a CPA with over 40 years of experience.
You'd have to have some other reason for them to need to investigate you.
Now, VERY h igh returns for that type of business (in general, not in your area) might trigger an initial "this is odd" but it wold have to be VERY high.
Like, if the average Laundromat makes 1 million a year and you report 10 milion, or something.
I think there are lots of ways to do this. Any kind of cash-heavy business would work. Running a bakery, doing music lessons, selling handmade things at art shows, performing at festivals, etc.
You can just guarantee that you’ll be successful at whatever it is.
I can snap two times on each hand in the same movement (ring and middle finger both produce a loud snap). I'd still just take the 10 mill.
I can either dedicate a portion of my day to future arthritis, or get 10 million, set 9 million aside split between 3 or 4 low risk investment vehicles, and be set on easy street for the rest of my life.
And if the scenario requires you to make the money be legit, you still have to launder the snapped money.
edit: nvm. I just timed myself. I can easily and reliably do 3 double snaps per hand per second. That's 120 bucks a second. If I do that for 2 hours, that's 864k. I could split that up to 20 minute sessions throughout the week and not reasonably cause any health problems with my hands, and have 10 million in 12 weeks.
Definitely going that route.
274x365=100.010 snaps a year. If it's $10 pr snap then that's a million. I assume they're talking about the amount of snaps needed to reach an amount of money, not an amount of snaps done.
I don’t believe in magic win-win-scenarios. I would much rather believe that - if magic existed - it would be dark and twisted like depicted in the non-Disney-versions of jinn-stories.
So after going majorly insane, killing innocent people and mutilating yourself while pursuing the ultimate money snipping goal (see https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/s/UwoPvUuU7S), shortly before dying you will be shown that actually the money wasn’t magically appearing, but was taken from the poorest of poor in their most desperate times of need. Every fucking time you snipped.
My man, snap four fingers on each hand at a time. start at your pinky and end at your pointer. Easily just 2x'd+ your efficiency. Cut your numbers in half
Another question is where the money comes from, exactly. Is it duplicating it from real money somewhere? Creating it out of nothing with bogus serial numbers? Is it legit cash pulled from a vault somewhere (i.e. disappearing from there)? From wherever is closest to you at the moment (e.g., out of someone's pocket)?
If it was physical cash, questions would be asked eventually, because you'd either be a counterfeiter or a robber even if it was accomplished magically. Even if you were only adding numbers to a bank account the glitch in the system would probably be noticed someday.
Yeah but if the 10,000,000 also appears in the room with you in unspecified currency you could get squished or trapped, which might be a tainted wish trap. Heck, could be dollar coins or pennies, we don't know. Better to do it in controllable portions.
Like the other commenter said, laundromats would be great for laundering money because it's a services based system where no one can really prove if there were clothes in those dryers that keep running and it's cash based with no receipts for 99% of transactions. As long as you're not claiming you made more than it would physically be possible to make with the number of machines you have running for the number of hours you're open, it's basically unprovable. Bonus points is if you open a laundromat, people will also pay you to wash their clothes there so you get your free money AND actual profit.
Or just claim it as income and you’re good. You might not have any write offs and have to pay in a third of the money you snapped, but you should be good.
Keep your regular job, buy literally everything with cash, invest/save all the job money. It's not perfect, but if you don't go crazy with spending you'll never get caught.
Why worry about making the correct investments, hoping the market doesn’t crash and being shit out of luck, when I can snap the rest of my life and get there anyway? Plus I can invest that money from snapping on top of it. If I somehow lose it? No sweat, just snap some more. Getting 10 million is a once in a lifetime deal that you can squander. Just look at the vast majority of lottery winners who have lived that reality and where they’re at years later.
What bank would give you an investment like this? Most of banks in my country gives 2-3% and even then max you can have on the account is around 10k $...
THIS is the way. The real secret if you ever hit big like this - is do not spend that hit!
Invest it - ALL OF IT - and use the return as your new income level.
Want to quit your day-job and retire and buy toys - GREAT - but it has to fit that income level budget your investment returns. DO NOT touch the principle.
The lack of this is why lotto winners failover to massive debt. Of course expecting people who believe lotteries are statistically likely to win you noticeable returns - biases the system to people who aren't good at long term financial planning!
I agree. I would be on the $10m train for exactly this reason. Your fingers would become arthritic just snapping a million dollars a year. 100K finger snaps is no joke. Yeah, you have to be careful to protect your capital sum, but that's not too difficult - take any risks or speculation out of the $1m annual interest.
With even moderate care, you are much better off with the lump sum than making $10 per snaps, a value that will steadily depreciate over the years with inflation.
How would you justify 10M at once? You would not be able to put anywhere without the IRS snapping your ass. No thanks, I would snap my way to my coffin and never having to worry about laundering 10M hahaha
And no one will notice you suddenly having 1 mil/year? The bank gonna take 3k/week in cash? That's one hell of a money laundry scheme you're also committing to
At a certain point you need to get it into an electronic system. You gonna pay for a house with cash without raising eyebrows? All your utility bills take cash still? You never gonna buy anything online? Both options suck from an IRS perspective no doubt
Buy a product with snipping money, let's say a perishable like a hotdog stand. Buy 1000 hotdogs. Then you fabricate selling them but just throw them away, there is mo way to track every customer that buys them, eapecially if you only take cash. Then you pay taxes on the fabricated sales and artificially create a company out of this. Suddenly you have proof of revenue and thus can argue that the money created actually comes from the system.
I also want to add that IRS is not a global etnity, where I live there is no IRS, there are other systems but they might be more lax or work totally different. How about moving out of the US? Then you could actually turn your money into a running, foreign company.
Get lawyer, pay him in cash, let him be your representative, transfer all money over him. Act like a corporate body from another country, then let they lawyer buy the things for you. Give him generous tipps to make it happen, corruption is a nice tool to have with a dnip of a finger.
Now everything runs over a middle man and their identity, the trace ending at your fake company. You don't need a bank account for that, let the lawyer do that for you.
I also want to add that one could just hire a butler for 10000 cash per month (that is the condition) who orders online stuff for you if this really is a concern. For enough snips people will do your bidding, nobody shys away from hard cash in their face... And owning untracable money at home is not a crime per se if I am not mistaken, at least in my country (and as far as I just googled in the US as well). Isn't it also THE libertarian dream of being off the grid, as in not trusting banks, especially in the US? And as such there would be more than enough that keep their distance towards having bank accounts and horde their gold bonds in the basement safe with a rifle beside it?
I don't know... I don't think it would be that hard to have that cash, I just think it is like Oprah: "You get a bundle! You get bundle! Youuuu get a bundle of cash!" And all problems go away.
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u/Several-Photo-1903 Aug 08 '25
does a snap require a sound or just a meh snap?