The dollar can be used once a day. It has to be a dollar’s worth of a product, service or use of a product. For example, A dollar’s worth of a $100 TV would be the life of the TV divided by 100. You would get to enjoy the TV for that amount of time. The product or service is instant and doesn’t require any preparation. It just appears and disappears. Or you could have a TV permanently that is worth one dollar.
OK, so if I borrowed $1000 worth of gold with one magic dollar, how long would I have access to this gold for? How do I calculate it for items that don’t die?
If I pay a gourmet meal with one dollar, does that mean I can eat it without gaining weight because these calories will disappear after I eat it? Because honestly that would make cheat days consequence free.
For gold that practically lasts forever, you use how much longer you have in your lifespan, by average. Like how much longer could someone live to.
The gourmet meal would be the meal divided into a part equal to one dollar. Calories won’t disappear. I just realized I forgot how to do math so I am looking up how to convert it, lol.
That’s cool. So assuming I have 50 years left to live (for easy math) the $1000 worth of gold with one magic dollar would mean that I will get to keep it for 18 days and 6 hours. Or a million dollars worth of gold for 65 seconds. Honestly, if I were a performing magician, it would be a heck of a trick to perform. Hold a bar of gold and make it disappear, letting the audience try to find it.
If I were a crook I could sell the gold and the person who buys the gold would be screwed, but I wouldn’t do that since that’s fraud.
But you know what’s the real benefit here? Not needing to ever maintain or clean anything. I need to cook? Take a $100 pan that can last for 50 years, pay 0.2 magic cent and I get to use it for 10 minutes to cook my omelette, then it disappears and I won’t need to wash it. Use a chefs knife that disappears and I don’t need to sharpen it. Need a car? I don’t need to own it, but if I need a car for an hour, sure I’ll pay 5 cents and not even need to pay for parking. Assuming you drive for 20 hours a year, that’s 1 dollars per year.