We Tested Your Plans to Beat Infinite Money

Noodle just got money that grows 10x every midnight. Last time, it almost broke the world. So we tested YOUR plans from the comments: spend it all, give it away, stop it early, buy the stores. Most of them backfire. One actually works. Part 1, when it happened to you: https://youtu.be/ch7RZklvrjk More What If stories (full episodes): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT9220h4mSIE Chapters: 0:00 Noodle's turn 0:34 Plan 1: Keep it small 1:32 Plan 2: Give it all away 2:25 Plan 3: Stop it early 2:59 Plan 4: Buy the store 3:57 Plan 5: The stone at the bottom of the sea 5:27 The not-so-fun facts 6:05 Day 30 Which loophole did we miss? Leave it in the comments. The best ones might end up in a future episode. Thanks to everyone whose comment made it into this one. What's real in this episode: • Gifts to charities don't pay US gift tax, and $10 billion is more than the US National Cancer Institute's yearly budget (about $7.35 billion). • In June 1973 the US froze food prices. Shelves went empty, and one Texas hatchery drowned 43,000 chicks it couldn't afford to raise. • On the island of Yap, a stone coin lost at the bottom of the sea kept counting as a family's wealth for generations. • If you refuse a prize, you don't count it as income (IRS Publication 525). • Money only pushes prices up when it's spent: spending = money × how fast it moves. • Germany 1923: prices doubled about every three or four days. In WWII, Germany forged millions of British pounds (Operation Bernhard). • The Fed shreds billions of worn-out bills a year, and US paper money is 75% cotton and 25% linen. • In 2013, PayPal accidentally showed one man a balance of $92,233,720,368,547,800. The ×10 money is fiction; the rules around it are real. Sources: • Gift tax, charitable deduction: 26 USC 2522 — law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/2522 • NCI budget — cancer.gov/about-nci/budget • 1973 food price freeze, 43,000 chicks: NYT 25 Jun 1973 — nytimes.com/1973/06/25/archives/baby-chicks-killed-and-cooked-for-feed.html • Nixon, Phase IV statement, 18 Jul 1973 — presidency.ucsb.edu (statement-announcing-measures-be-taken-under-phase-iv) • Price controls and shortages: Rockoff, Econlib — econlib.org/library/Enc/PriceControls.html • Yap stone money: Furness 1910 — gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72830/pg72830.txt; Friedman 1991, Hoover WP E-91-3 • Refused prizes: IRS Publication 525 — irs.gov/publications/p525 • Money and spending: IMF F&D 'Back to Basics' (2014) — imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2014/03/basics.htm • Weimar hyperinflation: Bundestag — bundestag.de/parlament/geschichte/100-jahre-weimar/hyperinflation-970722 • Operation Bernhard: Bank of England Museum — bankofengland.co.uk/museum/online-collections/blog/operation-bernhard • Shredding + washing bills: Boston Fed 2019 — bostonfed.org/news-and-events/news/2019/07/when-bills-go-bad.aspx • Cotton/linen paper: BEP — bep.gov/currency/how-money-is-made • PayPal 2013: Guinness World Records — guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/112989-largest-accidental-banking-credit How we made it: we write and fact-check every story ourselves, then build and animate it in Blender with our own 3D characters. The narrator voice and the music are AI-generated; AI tools also help us with scripts and code. Animated story; the characters and events are fictional and illustrative, not real footage. #animation #story #money