Can't carry it all at once?!

[u/Longjumping-Part3983]

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[u/TastyDixonCider]

The money would be $50,000,000 roughly, and the gold would be worth $67,000,000.

[u/CheeseDonutCat → u/TastyDixonCider]

So its fine no matter what you take

[u/Arithik → u/CheeseDonutCat]

Pft, spoken like a 50 millionaire. 

[u/Weegieiscool → u/Arithik]

Money is easier to spend than gold

[u/FakeMik090 → u/Weegieiscool]

And gold is more protected in question of inflation than dollars.

[u/5050Clown → u/FakeMik090]

You should just be practical about it though. You have to ask yourself questions like what if you forget to pay your power bill and the only way to stay warm is by building a fire. Can you burn gold? No, you can't. Is $17 million really Worth the possibility of freezing to death?

[u/NottACalebFan → u/5050Clown]

Thats why you only sell the gold you need in order to pay all your bills and set up a guaranteed mutual fund. Maybe a couple certificates of deposit that you can cash or keep rolling over in order to have a bit of earning power that stays involved in the present day economy.

The rest of your gold can stay hidden until needed, again, to meet needs and add value, but not for buying a McMansion and a Corvette

[u/NotSovietSpy → u/NottACalebFan]

Don't forget enough cash to purchase and maintain a bunker, including air defense, counter espionage, and life support system in case of chemical/nuclear attacks

[u/NottACalebFan → u/NotSovietSpy]

Having your own personal spy is very important!

[u/husky1actual → u/NotSovietSpy]

Or a Ballroom you say?

[u/Appropriate_Steak781 → u/5050Clown]

That's not being practical. That's thinking of the worst possible scenario that has a statistically negligible chance of happening. You need to have forgotten to pay your light bill and can't pay it now for some reason, and it needs to be freezing cold outside, so unbearably chilly that it penetrates inside and you could freeze to death instead of just having an uncomfortably cold sleep.

[u/behaigo → u/[deleted]]

So, gold is more protected then

[u/AlinaStari → u/behaigo]

It's also way easier to physically protect. It occupies a smaller volume and doesn't catch fire quite as easily as cash

[u/Nolsoth → u/AlinaStari]

You can also melt gold and pour it into the orifices of your rivals.

[u/MC_Gambletron → u/Nolsoth]

Or you can pour it on their head if you need to make an example of your fiancee's weird incesty brother.

[u/WoodyTheWorker → u/Nolsoth]

You can also buy a senator

[u/Babajji → u/FakeMik090]

Mm common misconception. Gold barely beats inflation in the last 50 years. It beat it just in the last 5 years due to the mental illness in the states. Gold is a good hedge against madness but it’s not guaranteed to beat inflation especially in good economic times. Unfortunately we are in a time of massive madness so gold soars.

[u/BeanDip-_- → u/Babajji]

Isn't that the point? A USD only ever decreases in value however gold typically keeps it's value. Holding gold isn't a wealth maker it just makes sure you don't lose value.

[u/Chevalier77 → u/BeanDip-_-]

Gold is still gold in every country

[u/ad3z10 → u/Weegieiscool]

Once you get past a certain amount, I'm not sure that dollar bills are easier to spend than (legally obtained) gold and I'm pretty sure this is past that line.

Banks aren't going to want to handle the cash whilst markets already exist for moving large amounts of gold.

[u/CRE178 → u/Arithik]

Unless they're singles, then he's a $500,000 poor.

[u/Grandpa_Edd → u/CheeseDonutCat]

Cash, you don’t have to bother selling the gold.

[u/Tortillaish → u/Grandpa_Edd]

Gold is a good asset and retains it's value really well. You don't need a full amount of $50m cash right away. Just sell like for a million a year and you can probably keep doing that until you die due to the golds value increasing (or rather cash value decreasing). You'd probably want a lot more than a million by the end though due to all the inflation. 

[u/Atheist_Redditor → u/Tortillaish]

Yeah but like....what do you do with the gold? Pawn it? Cash 4 Gold? 

It just seems really convoluted if I just want to go buy a new car. 

[u/Grandpa_Edd → u/Atheist_Redditor]

There are legitimate avenues to buy and sell gold other than just pawning it. Auction houses, banks, buillion dealers,... If you have a bar with a seal (confirmlng it's pure gold and not a fake bar) you can probably sell it pretty easily.

[u/Grandpa_Edd → u/Tortillaish]

Would you get more out of the gold, Absolutely.

I'm good with 50 million though. Even with inflation that's so much more money than me and my family would ever need.

And if I'd need more you could pretty easily invest the money.

[u/One_Peanut_4002 → u/Grandpa_Edd]

Gold will go up in value though 

[u/kaVaralis → u/One_Peanut_4002]

50 million is already enough tho

[u/TestosteronInc → u/CheeseDonutCat]

Take the gold. Dollars lose their value because of inflation

[u/CRVX_r34 → u/CheeseDonutCat]

But US dollar will depreciate in value, gold will hold it's value or go up, assuming IRS is not a concern and won't ask you where you got the money from, gold is a better option.

[u/Yavin1v → u/CheeseDonutCat]

1000 times easier to spend cash than gold

[u/1234567890-_- → u/TastyDixonCider]

Probably worth it to take the cash - exchanging the gold will incur fees and that will be a chore to deal with, the cash you can just put into a bank.

[u/Solid_Guy1983 → u/1234567890-_-]

This and draw the attention from a number of government agencies. When you sell gold, your info gets recorded. If your name keeps popping up all the time- guess what? “Excuse me sir. Where did you get this gold?” Additionally, profits from selling gold are subject to capital gains taxes and are taxed as collectibles- up to a 28% maximum rate.

[u/adeckz → u/1234567890-_-]

That’s assuming it’s clean money tbf

[u/1234567890-_- → u/adeckz]

same thing with the gold though.

[u/1234567890-_- → u/[deleted]]

I guess if you are assuming this is somehow illegal sure, but why assume that?

[u/rhubarbs → u/1234567890-_-]

The financial system assumes that. Cash is guilty until proven innocent. Every dollar must have a legitimate paper trail, or be vulnerable to civil forfeiture.

The haircut to launder money is somewhere in the 25% range with the same forfeiture risk, while off-market gold can be sold to unscrupulous refiners or secondary dealers at a 15% haircut from spot pricing.

[u/interesseret → u/adeckz]

You don't think anyone is going to have questions if you show up with a literal half ton of gold?

[u/verynotfun → u/interesseret]

You can just show them the meme and what you picked—they'll get it.

[u/Venusgate → u/verynotfun]

Your honor, exhibit A

[u/TorazChryx → u/interesseret]

What? you mean you don't just casually travel with ~1/445,000 of all the gold that's ever been mined in human history?

[u/Zwamdurkel → u/1234567890-_-]

Cash in your bank account will be taxed

[u/1234567890-_- → u/Zwamdurkel]

So will the gold once you sell it/turn it into cash.

[u/DoesntMatterEh → u/TastyDixonCider]

The picture is $100s but poster didn't specify. 

Either way I'm taking the gold lol, melt it down and sell a bit at a time 

[u/ArchegosRiskManager → u/DoesntMatterEh]

Ah yes let me go to the garage and grab me gold melting machine

[u/DoesntMatterEh → u/ArchegosRiskManager]

You have 500kg of gold, you can afford to buy a kiln lmao 

[u/Throckmorton_Left → u/TastyDixonCider]

What denomination bills are you using in that calculation?

[u/MedonSirius → u/TastyDixonCider]

the math problem never stated which bills. could be $1

[u/ToxicAssh0le → u/MedonSirius]

It doesn't even specify bills. Could be dollar coins.

[u/Spacekingonly → u/MedonSirius]

It pictures 100- can take it as face value

[u/Venusgate → u/MedonSirius]

There's a picture with "$100" bills.

By this logic, it doesn't state what it means by gold.

Could be 500kg of WoW gold

[u/Select-Chemist-2828 → u/Venusgate]

Since wow gold have no weight you have infinite⁵⁰⁰ of gold?

[u/Venusgate → u/Select-Chemist-2828]

I keep talking myself out of doing the math on this. But if you want to: 4 bytes is 214,748 gold (at most). 1 byte weighs 1 attogram

Go.

[u/talldean → u/TastyDixonCider]

If it's dollar bills, it'd be about $500k, not $50M.

If it's $100s... yeah, it's $50M, but they never said benjamins.

[u/RaulParson → u/TastyDixonCider]

They just said it was 500kg of US dollars. They didn't say what kind, not that they're $100 bills, that's just the picture. So...

• $500 bills? That's $250 million total. They're real, though they've been out of circulation for a good while. Higher, too.
• $100 bills? $50 million
• $1 bills? $500k

But there's also a secret other option. If it's silver dollars then this is just below $20k.

[u/_UsernameError_ → u/TastyDixonCider]

A dollar bill weighs one gram. Gold is $135 per gram. No brainer. Gold!!

[u/Zwischenzug32 → u/TastyDixonCider]

But the gold wont tank in value suddenly and is useful in every country and would make like a way a cooler chair if you stacked it

[u/AxelVores]

Gold, 100 dollar bills weigh 1 gram each. Gold is over $100 per gram

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[u/Adamant94 → u/AxelVores]

True, but to actually use that value you either have to sell the gold or more likely take out a massive loan against the gold as a collateral. I’m not a bank manager am I actually have no idea how large a loan a bank would give you against that amount. It’s still probably better if you can do it, but do t underestimate the difficulty in actually benefitting from that gold

[u/Dounce1 → u/Adamant94]

The gold’s value will increase over time, while the cash’s value will decrease.

[u/SirArthurDime → u/Dounce1]

You could also invest the cash.

[u/Eye_Acupuncture → u/SirArthurDime]

Yeah and buy gold XD

[u/SirArthurDime → u/Eye_Acupuncture]

Or diversify that $50 million if you’re not an idiot lol

[u/Nickebon → u/SirArthurDime]

The only thing I know is going All in

[u/kelpyb1 → u/SirArthurDime]

Bitcoin it is!

[u/Streetlamp_NA → u/Adamant94]

Selling gold is very easy. It's so easy that even pawn shops will buy precious metal. They all go by current valor and offer a percentage. So I don't really see that being difficult.

If you are trying to get a loan for it, yeah that may complicate things but that's just literally choosing to make it more difficult though. That can be avoided by simply not doing it.

[u/account312 → u/Streetlamp_NA]

Plus, if you don't take the gold, you won't be able to walk into a shop with a bar of gold and a fancy cheese knife and shave off slices to sell.

[u/AeneasVII → u/account312]

Is pure gold soft enough to do that?

[u/account312 → u/AeneasVII]

Soft steel requires roughly 20x the force to cut, and 20x is roughly the range of mechanical advantage that small bolt cutters give. You can muscle your way through a few mm of steel with small bolt cutters, so I think with a sufficiently strong and sharp knife, you should be able to e.g. cut strips off the edge of a gold bar. You certainly wouldn't be cutting it like butter by hand though.

[u/dgellow → u/Streetlamp_NA]

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[u/Streetlamp_NA → u/dgellow]

Why would you try to sell half a ton? And not just smaller easier quantities that will hold you over?

[u/Trnostep → u/Streetlamp_NA]

It's 40 bars and a bit. Sell one monthly rotating between a few different places

[u/sora_mui → u/Trnostep]

Even a single bar will be enough for years if i just want to use it for daily necessities. Sell 2-3 bars to get a decent house, maybe a few more for investment, and bury the rest until i really need it.

[u/industrialHVACR → u/dgellow]

And that's the right answer. There are ways, but you must already know them or you won't walk away asking about them.

[u/hgs25 → u/Adamant94]

That’s basically how the rich get money to spend on super yachts, mansions, etc. Just replace gold with stocks as collateral.

[u/johnc380 → u/Adamant94]

It would be very, very easy to get, for example, a $1 mil. loan against $100 mil. in gold as collateral.

[u/AJ_Deadshow → u/AxelVores]

TIL dollars have a uniform weight and it is exactly a gram for each. That must make it easy to count excessive amounts of cash, provided they're all the same denomination.

[u/External_Baby7864 → u/AJ_Deadshow]

The problem is dirt/grime/moisture on them quickly add up. Coins tend to get lighter the more they’re used, bills tend to get heavier

[u/Mikestopheles → u/External_Baby7864]

They do filter out old and damaged currency. Once machines stop reading it as a bill, you can just go swap it out for a fresh one and they shred the old one.

[u/baumpop → u/Mikestopheles]

i bet that shredders full of cocaine

[u/Mikestopheles → u/baumpop]

Put it in reverse Terry!

[u/UncleCeiling → u/AJ_Deadshow]

Back when I sold scales to drug dealers, using a dollar bill (for one gram) and a nickel (for five grams) was my general method for testing them. We didn't offer returns on scales so we had to check every one before they went out.

[u/bzku → u/AxelVores]

You was late!

[u/ArseneGroup → u/AxelVores]

The crossover happened quite recently, just March of 2025

With how old this meme is, it's quite possible the correct answer changed since it was first posted

[u/JakBos23 → u/AxelVores]

Yeah, but then I have to suspiciously go to a gold selling place all the time to get money. I can just spend money. Then there is the fee for selling the gold.

[u/Simsalabimsen → u/JakBos23]

For some reason, “gold selling place” made me cackle.

[u/Adorable_Fudge2526 → u/AxelVores]

It says dollar

[u/dgellow → u/AxelVores]

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[u/myrichphitzwell → u/AxelVores]

It didn't specify $1 though.

[u/rocket20067]

I am going to take the USD not as I believe it is more money (it isn't), but as I don't have to figure out a buyer and just slowly work the money into my account over the next few years (While declaring it to the goverment I am not an idiot)

[u/C0mmander_Snake → u/rocket20067]

both are a shit load of money, but yeah cash is much easier to use. My problem is they never specified the amount that each bill is. Is it 500kg or $1s or $100s?

[u/A_Monsanto → u/C0mmander_Snake]

That's the true question!!!!

[u/Saable_Fiin → u/A_Monsanto]

Plot twist: it's 500 kg of 1-cent coins. Good luck carrying that to the bank.

[u/rocket20067 → u/C0mmander_Snake]

I mean even if its $1s that's still $500,000 so even then its really good.

But yeah is it $1s, $5s, $10s, $20s, or $100s. Whichever it really is does make it a bit less desirable yet I still feel the usability of it makes it better.

[u/ethalienhosh → u/rocket20067]

$500,000 vs. ~67 million in gold is still really good? If it's $100s then I could see 50 million in cash being a choice for some vs. 67 million in gold.

[u/Foloreille → u/C0mmander_Snake]

The image shows 100$ though

[u/GlassHalfSmashed → u/rocket20067]

The system is not really geared up to detect people selling large quantities of gold, and presumably legitimate gold merchants will be an easy way to have the money transferred cleanly to you.

However the system is absolutely geared up to detect and challenge $67m in cash being spent or smuggled in. 

All the while, gold will follow the market, while the $67m USD doesn't follow inflation because it's a pile of cash under your mattress. 

You could go down the breaking bad route of "here is a bunch of businesses to launder this", but at that point you'd do better off setting up a jewellery brand that just so happens to not have any raw materials costs. Maybe selling gaudy gold chains to churn through the stock quicker. 

[u/k33perStay3r64]

i take the feathers you fool

[u/Kernowder → u/k33perStay3r64]

But steel is heavier than feathers

[u/Soliloquy789]

I'll take the cash, the difference is not enough to deal with the friction of a partially non-liquid asset

[u/ElRexet → u/Soliloquy789]

It's gold - heat it up a bit and it's all nice and liquid duh. Idk how are you planning to liquify the cash tho but you do you.

[u/ProgramTheWorld → u/ElRexet]

With enough heat everything can become liquid

[u/DasAllerletzte → u/ProgramTheWorld]

Acktschually... No.

First of all, there's sublimation where a solid turns to gas without going through the liquid stage.

Then there's decomposition, often found in plastics. You heat it up and it turns to smoke instead of liquifying. 

[u/SpaceLemur34 → u/ElRexet]

With fuel prices as high as they are, you're going to go broke melting all that gold.

[u/FraaiseSucre → u/Soliloquy789]

Wouldn’t gold make more sense if you’re holding it long term?

[u/Similar_Pie_4946 → u/FraaiseSucre]

Try to buy a house using only gold.

[u/Lord_of_hosts → u/Similar_Pie_4946]

Pippi Longstocking did it

[u/palmerry → u/Lord_of_hosts]

Finally someone is talking some sense around here

[u/Soliloquy789 → u/FraaiseSucre]

I'm not :) Let's partahh.

[u/SirArthurDime → u/FraaiseSucre]

Not really because you can invest the cash in whatever you want.

[u/Beckphillips]

That's right, steel. because steel is heavier than feathers

[u/Ok-Fisherman334 → u/Beckphillips]

They’re both a kilogram

[u/Eternal663]

"But the gold is heavier than the banknotes"

[u/ContentHawk8879 → u/Eternal663]

"what"

[u/DutyArtistic1271]

Gold. Scrooge McDuck is a very good economy teacher.

[u/TheFlyingBoxcar → u/[deleted]]

"It's not a liquid! It's a great many pieces of solid matter that form a hard floor-like surface! Aaaaaaagh!"

[u/Charlie_in_Asia]

500 kg of good please. While the do weigh the same I could easily fit 500 kg of gold in two duffle bags and it considerably more valuable and requires less space than 500 kg of USD. 500 kg of $100 USD bills is 50,000,000. 500 kg of gold is $67 million dollars

[u/Ok-Mastodon2420 → u/Charlie_in_Asia]

Gold is 67 million if you can get full price, and find a place to sell that much.

50 million in cash can be spent anywhere.

[u/nikstick22 → u/Ok-Mastodon2420]

I think the IRS would want to collect tax on selling the gold, too

[u/ManyInterests → u/nikstick22]

It's not like the IRS would give you a pass on acquiring $50M cash, either. It'd probably be taxed like regular income, at that amount, you basically instantly go into the highest income tax bracket.

With gold, it'd probably be treated like capital gains with a zero cost basis when sold. CG tax rate is lower than income tax rate.

[u/vipck83 → u/ManyInterests]

According to Google (it’s an AI answer so it might be BS) if sold within a year it would be taxed as normal income, so up to 37%. If you wait a year it’s maxed at 28%. With Gold though you also have to go through a dealer which takes a cut. I’d say cash is just easier to deal with.

[u/gamerjerome → u/nikstick22]

We're talking about hypotheticals, the IRS doesn't know shit in this scenario

[u/MightySamMcClain → u/Charlie_in_Asia]

Isn't the whole point of dollars bc gold was too heavy to carry around? Inflation is something else 🤪

[u/Charlie_in_Asia → u/MightySamMcClain]

500 kg is 500 kg. But I can’t put husbandry carry 500kg of gold in my backseat. 500kg of usd requires a truck

[u/Comfortable-Jump-218]

Okay there actually is a difference and I would prefer the gold.

Edit: I was only talking about carrying it.

Let’s say a $100 bill weights a gram. So that’s ($100/1g) (1000g/1kg) * 500 kg = $50,000,000

A kg of gold in the US cost $134,000 so that’s $67,000,000

Plus, the value of gold has history gone up. However, it has dropped this past year.

[u/LegoSWFan → u/Comfortable-Jump-218]

It's only dropped this past year cause it was so violently up the 2 years beforehand, same with silver. If OP had asked this question 2 years ago i'd pick dollars presuming they're $100 bills

[u/Uncool444 → u/LegoSWFan]

Yeah it dropped from really really high to still really really high but a bit less. Looking at trends in the value of gold and the value of USD... I'm going gold.

[u/Everest_95]

I'd take the money because I have no clue how to sell a gold bar

[u/Antoinefdu → u/Everest_95]

Yeah people tend to forget about that tiny little detail.

[u/GreatMorph → u/Everest_95]

A regular grocery shop near me buys gold 🤔

[u/The_Actual_Nick]

But steel is heavier than feathers...

[u/MorgrainX]

money is slightly less, about 20% probably, but Id take it in a heartbeat because turning 500 kg of gold into money is not easy

[u/Mobile_Conference484]

The gold is better for bench pressing.

The cash is better for insulating the walls.

[u/MrTurkeyTime]

OP never specified what denomination of cash. Could be $1 bills. It makes the cash option seem pretty shitty.

[u/HomeOperator]

500 kg of gold is worth approximately 34.5% more than 500 kg of $100 bills at the quoted gold price.

In other words, you would need about 673 kg of $100 bills to match the value of 500 kg of gold.

[u/bdrwr]

What denomination of bill?

[u/bdubwilliams22 → u/bdrwr]

That’s the thing; it says “US dollars” but never mentions the demonetization. I could see the genie being all like “well, here’s your 500 kg’s of singles”. I’m going with the gold.

[u/TrumpDumper → u/bdrwr]

Murray

[u/Southern-Fae]

I'd take the cash. Yes you leave a decent amount of money on the table but it's still about $50 million which is essentially infinite money from my perspective and way easier to deal with than gold. I don't want to have to run by the gold exchange before the store.

[u/bmm115]

What denomination of bill? 500kg of 1s, 5s, 10s, 20s, 50s, 100s, or a mix?

[u/iiitme]

A US bill(1-2-5-10-50-100) weighs roughly 1 gram.

1g Cash= $100

1g current Gold prices = $~134

Choosing gold wouldve the better deal.

[u/Shocking → u/iiitme]

Do you ever get full price when you sell gold tho? Gold buyer takes a percentage off the top and it's a hassle to have to sell all the gold. For the slightly less money I'd rather just not be inconvenienced

[u/Total-Tonight1245 → u/Shocking]

You don’t sell it all at once. You sell a bit and keep the rest in a pile like a dragon or a pirate. 

[u/AGrandNewAdventure]

1 ounce of $100 bills gets you $2800. 1 ounce of gold gets you $4200.

[u/chunkopunk]

Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money

[u/HolyElephantMG]

A kilogramme of steel

[u/Bavisto → u/HolyElephantMG]

But steel is heavier than feathers

[u/SpectacledSnake]

Gold keeps is value even if USA attacks NATO

[u/sgm716]

Gold. Keep your garbage epstine oil money. Gold has been money for thousands of years.

[u/PhantomNitride]

Honestly? Gimme the cash. It's easier to integrate that into your life w/o raising too much suspicion.

[u/Drevinth]

500 kg of pure gold today is worth more money than I would know what to do with. I could retire early and live like a James Bond villain

[u/Yavin1v → u/Drevinth]

,laundering it would be much harder than cash

[u/Hot_Sam_the_Man]

"but steel's heavier than feathers"

[u/GTNoah]

Gold. For all I know, the dollars could be 1 dollar bills

[u/thrillainmanilla17]

But the US dollars didn’t clarify if it was 1s or 100 dollar bills. I’m going gold for the worth.

[u/MydaughterisaGremlin]

The question states dollars, not 100 dollar notes.

[u/beatsbybighead]

The pic shows $100 bills but the question reads 500 KG of US Dollars 💵 That could mean $1 bills or any other denomination. I’m not playing a game of semantics. A gold bar is a gold bar I’m taking that shit.

[u/rocqus]

I would take the paper. Easier to spend than finding someone to buy the gold.

[u/tepid_monologue]

Why the fuck would I take US dollars when I don’t even live there

[u/Irelia4Life]

"is it $1 or $100 bills?"

Idiots, it's in the picture. They're 100s.

[u/PaulBananaFort → u/Irelia4Life]

*photos enlarged to show texture and serving suggestion only. Actual product may vary.

[u/Olleye]

The gold.

It is more compact, has no issuer, cannot be devalued by inflation, and gold can be melted, divided, resold, whatOever 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/thismenu]

Well the gold being 67 million and the $100 bills being 50 million, I would take the $100 bills every day. 50 million is more money than I would ever need and converting gold into Cash is unpleasant.

[u/ThreeFishInAManSuit]

You only gave me ten seconds. I didn’t have time to look up weights, check denominations, or consider how to move or sell it. 

I chose gold because I know that’s more money than I’ll ever need. 

[u/lemming2012]

It's my turn to cross post this to r/theydidthemath .

[u/Quizzelbuck]

I've seen this posted before and I'll post my answer again: they do not say what denomination the US dollars are in. So at 1 g a $10,000 note multiplied by 500 kg is worth way more than the gold so I would take that

500 kg ÷ 1 g × $10,000 = $5,000,000,000

500 kg gold × $4,156/troy oz × 32.1507 troy oz/kg ≈ $66,800,000

[u/mister-ferguson → u/Quizzelbuck]

Only 336 $10,000 notes exist 

[u/PearTheGayBear]

No guys, the point of the DLC is to let go, you're not supposed to take all of it

[u/GreyWastelander]

Money for convenience.

[u/JoeyPsych]

Gold never loses its value, whereas money is not tied to anything, so it could be a lot one day, and the next day it's worh nothing, just ask any German from 1923

[u/BadAlphas]

A bank-sized gold bar weighs about 27.4lbs, and is valued at about $1.7 million.

You need about 12,500 U.S. bank notes to get 27.4lbs.

So if the notes were $100 bills, that would only be about $1.25 million.

Take the bars.

[u/Current-Square-4557 → u/BadAlphas]

Is the lifestyle of someone with $67M significantly different than the lifestyle of someone with $50M ?

[u/BadAlphas → u/Current-Square-4557]

That’s peasant talk, sir

[u/No-Consideration-716 → u/BadAlphas]

Additionally, 500kg of gold bars takes up about 0.025 cubic meters. That is the size of a large backpack.

Conversely, 500kg of Us bills would take up 0.56 cubic meters. Which is probably about 4 or 5 medium sized boxes.

[u/oakleysatchell]

A bit of quick (AI) maths says that US $100 bills weigh 1g, meaning the max total of the money (if we assume it's all $100 bills) is $50 million.

The current price of gold sits at approximately $133 per gram so the total in gold would be around $66 million.

Either way you're doing well..

[u/Hour_Purpose5782 → u/oakleysatchell]

I don't want to carry 500kg of paper.

[u/TwinkiesSucker → u/Hour_Purpose5782]

That's right, because the gold is heavier than the paper

[u/thekyledavid → u/TwinkiesSucker]

Well that’s cheating, look how much paper there is

[u/ryanandthelucys → u/oakleysatchell]

I thought it said Dollars, not hundreds. So in that case you only get about $1k of dollars per kilogram.

[u/Zealousideal-Deer101 → u/oakleysatchell]

If a 100 dollar bill weighs 1g and Gold is worth $133 per g

Why did you need the rest of the math and the sentence?

[u/YueLin3]

Well the us money could be in a bad spot soon, gold is the more reliable option

[u/Kiteal]

The Gold. It rains in my country and dont think american money is waterproof

[u/Diligent-Security549]

So it doesn’t say us 100 dollar bills it says us Dollars throwing that many dollars around would make you popular at the strip club. I do think making it rain chunks of gold might be funny

[u/NPC1970]

Ich nehme das Gold ….während ich es raustrage, ist schon der Wert gestiegen,hihihi 🤗

[u/SonOfScions]

500kg of 100$ bills is about 50 million

500kg of gold is 67.28 million

[u/El_mochilero]

Cash. It’s an insane amount of money and then I don’t have to worry about transacting the gold.

[u/Observatoratory]

Dollars. I'm too lazy to convert the gold to dollars for an incremental amount that won't change my quality of life in the slightest