{"id":8,"date":"2009-05-07T16:33:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T16:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/everydayethics\/2009\/05\/standing-in-an-especially-long.html"},"modified":"2009-05-07T16:33:27","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T16:33:27","slug":"standing-in-an-especially-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayethics\/2009\/05\/standing-in-an-especially-long.html","title":{"rendered":"How far would you go to get rich quick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing in an especially long line at my bank yesterday, my wandering mind intersected at two points: my poor, beleaguered bank account (sob, tear) and the summer bank heist movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1152836\/\">Public Enemies<\/a>, starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. <\/p>\n<p>Where did these thoughts intersect? Well, not to give away any of my more nefarious &#8220;get rich quick&#8221; schemes, but I started wondering exactly how far I really would go to make a little extra cash.<\/p>\n<p>I came up with this little checklist of would&#8217;s and would-not&#8217;s:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&nbsp;<strong>would not<\/strong> take part in a bank heist, even with Johnny Depp as my partner in crime.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>would<\/strong> climb the Space Needle, a la new MTV show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/ontv\/dyn\/the_phone\/series.jhtml\">The Phone<\/a>. (Quick summary for those who haven&#8217;t seen the show: four strangers are given the chance to pair up and win $50,000, as&nbsp;long as they survive&nbsp;daring missions.)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>would not<\/strong> refuse to split the reward for climbing the Space Needle with my partner on the ground. Well, I say this&nbsp;with <em>near<\/em> certainty; I&nbsp;had trouble sharing as a child and have been trying to make up for&nbsp;it ever since.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>would<\/strong> <strong>not<\/strong> steal from a friend.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>would<\/strong> donate my eggs.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>would<\/strong> consider an Office Space-esque scheme of filching pennies (consider, people, just <em>consider<\/em>!)<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>would not<\/strong> become a stripper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s about as far as I got during my 5 minutes in line. How far would you wander into murky territory to make these tough times just a little bit easier?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing in an especially long line at my bank yesterday, my wandering mind intersected at two points: my poor, beleaguered bank account (sob, tear) and the summer bank heist movie, Public Enemies, starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. Where did these thoughts intersect? Well, not to give away any of my more nefarious &#8220;get rich&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-padmini-mangunta","category-ethics-morality","category-personal-ethics","category-work-ethics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How far would you go to get rich quick? - Everyday Ethics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayethics\/2009\/05\/standing-in-an-especially-long.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How far would you go to get rich quick? - Everyday Ethics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Standing in an especially long line at my bank yesterday, my wandering mind intersected at two points: my poor, beleaguered bank account (sob, tear) and the summer bank heist movie, Public Enemies, starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. 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