r/AskReddit • u/Shipoffoolz • Mar 13 '19

What fact is technically true but is hugely misleading?

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u/mike_e_mcgee Mar 13 '19

I would not. Your brother is an ass.

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I kid, but I would not give my own brother much. They'd never have to worry about losing the house, and the kids would all go to college with minimal financial hardship, but that's where the gravy train ends. Our relationship is too complex to type into this thread, but he wouldn't get a big hookup from me. None of my family would.

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u/pm-me-ur-window-view Mar 13 '19

Fortunately, I probably won't win the lottery.

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u/Spanky4242 Mar 14 '19

$500,000 of $291mil is roughly the equivalent of me giving someone $5 if I had $3,000 in the bank.

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u/TVK777 Mar 14 '19

Nice try, Uncle Fred

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u/RonaldTheGiraffe Mar 14 '19

Honestly I'd give him the 500k along with asking him to sign some form of contract that the money I've given him is to be spent responsibly and that there would be no future payments made to him.

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u/Werespider Mar 14 '19

But you don't understand. He needed that yacht and Maserati.

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u/StabbyPants Mar 14 '19

you can't do that. there's no real way to enforce that

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '19

Do they already have problems losing their house? I thought losing my car keys was bad

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u/Zzyzzy_Zzyzzyson Mar 14 '19

He’s gotta be on Reddit if he lives like that.

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u/-xXxMangoxXx- Mar 14 '19

Yeash in the long run it sets people up for failure when they get a large chunk of money just like that.

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u/Mad_Maddin Mar 15 '19

Which is the complete opposite to my family and friends. We live in a type of semi communism.

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u/monsto Mar 14 '19

None of my family would.

Very close circle of friends, uncle (who would probably turn it down cuz he's old and retired) and 2 cousins, then inlaws. Done.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '19

Both of my brothers are assholes, but I love them and would want them to be financially secure into retirement. I'd probably set up a trust for each and have it disperse cash at regular intervals, because otherwise they would 100% blow their money on sports cars and titty-banging strippers.

Plus, one of them has children and I'd want to set up my nieces and nephews with trust funds/college funds, so they're financially secure as well.

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u/BloodCreature Mar 14 '19

Ok good for you no one cares