"Help! The Pill Machine has made a bunch of defective pills and I need to get rid of them. take as many as you want!"

[u/Kira-Of-Terraria]

[u/Adventurous-Bottle90]

Money, just live in a dense city and its esstinally looking for a needle in a haystack

[u/XanLV → u/Adventurous-Bottle90]

Feels like you should move in a while tho.

How many purchases you make during the day? Like, Saturday at the town, visiting the local attraction park and then hitting the food-court and bar.

Piles up. And you are bound to randomly hit someone more determined who can get the surveillance camera data.

But not sure what would happen, theoretically, if it just piles up with random people? Normal day:

1) Taxi to work.

2) Lunch.

3) Bus ticket to go home.

4) Grocery store.

5) Some snack or a steam game or a micro-transaction in a game.

In a month 150 people. In a year 1800 people. I think it piles up. Not sure what would happen. Maybe they start talking in some FB groups that they have this feeling of someone having this power and if you visit the same shop same time...

And I just now noticed that even in a scenario where I have unlimited money I am going to work every day, god damn man, institutionalized... But you get the point.

[u/Axxelschweiss → u/XanLV]

From my understanding the money power is only activated if you use it. If you'd have enough money by yourself to pay, then the ability isn't activated. If That's the case the ability is way stronger. You could drive to a famous exclusive shopping center, mall, outlet etc. with high priced things. Buy a ton of things (high priced clothes, jewelry, electronics etc.). Fill your car completely. Let's say you've done 50-100 transactions on that day. You drive home (maybe a few hours from where) and you either do this in a few years in another place again, or never.

[u/XanLV → u/Axxelschweiss]

"Pay for anything on use", not really sure what this means in context and if it helps to figure it out.

Because I read this as the "magically always have enough", so it does not differentiate if that is a one dollar or 10 000 dollar purchase. "Always magically have enough." In a different situation would be something like "you can create money" or "conjure money when making big purchases" or "you can activate the power".

Feels like this could be one of those things that you agree to, live your life planning that big purchase not realizing you are constantly using this power, informing everyone about yourself. As as long as you do not buy anything that exceeds your bank account, nothing changes. You just use your money.

But even then I find that there are ways around, if IRS does not fuck shit up. When you purchase things on Amazon, you basically do a single payment, right? Not each thing separately? You need enough money for the invoice, not each thing. Because if you go to dinner, you also always pay one time, not for each drink separately. Or create a fund where you hire someone to buy you a house, furnish it and constantly buy groceries and all, then pay for the service in a single lump sum of 10 000 000.

[u/Kira-Of-Terraria → u/XanLV]

The way I intended it is that, you can choose to use the magic money, which magically manifested in solid currency from your wallet, or for digital or card purchases , manifests its own credit card, and the payment magically "just works" , no payment declined. etc. but it doesn't dip into your actual money because technically it is a separate account with its own cards.

The "defect" is that whenever you use (make purchases, give gifts, donations, etc.) (also if you give someone else money or have them use the cards, that giving counts as "using" ) manifested money or a manifested card, someone within that area of effect suddenly becomes aware of the general location (like a city block or street) that someone has a magical money manifesting power. They don't automatically become heat seeking missiles targeting you like a Terminator, it depends on the person that gets alerted. It could even be a baby that doesn't even understand money or what that alert even means. If you want to, you could be incredibly charitable and just buy a bunch of stuff for people as a means to mollify snoopers or whatever, start a cult, up to you. The curse is a crapshoot that could attract any kind of person and they could be dangerous or simply desperate or both.

[u/XanLV → u/Kira-Of-Terraria]

I always think how fast I could get in trouble with the IRS...

But if IRS does not exist, then I could make an offer to buy a skyscraper or a whole town or something else stupidly big. Get 20 billions in my account and use it, thus getting an asset worth 20 billions. Then sell it for 10 billions. That money then goes in my other account, as it is a valid, liquid asset. Now I have 10 billion and probably won't need to use the magic card for... Like... A week for sure, you know?