Did I read the OP wrong? There’s nothing there about getting your tongue cut off. 
Zero.
I would choose option 5. I can easily get along without those 5 fingers. I can handle many things with just my thumbs and index fingers but holding a pen is easier with my middle finger as well. 
Me too. I’m quite happy with my life, and really the main thing I want out of money is a reasonably comfortable life and a decent rainy-day cushion, and I’ve already got that. I’d certainly take more money if someone were throwing it at me, but I wouldn’t give up anything of importance for it. I’d miss the fingers way more than I’d benefit from the money. No deal.
We don’t agree very often, but I’m with you on this.
1 and 2 maybe. Then take up an acting job in cartoons.
I was mulling over the idea of giving up the whole lot and becoming an Abu Hamza impersonator.
I might be willing to consider the pinkies, but nothing more. Typing quickly is way more important to me than the money I could make in less than a decade.
Not to mention that video games are one of my favorite past times, especially computer games, where the more fingers you have, the better (even the pinky is important).
This is my thought, too. Yeah, yeah, the money is transferred before the operation… but one day isn’t nearly long enough. You can’t be sure about anything your bank tells you until at least six weeks after the amount shows up in your account, and for amounts this large, better make it 18 months.
Yes, your bank will tell you that the payment is 100% confirmed, and that the amount quoted is definitely correct… But then a few weeks later they’ll tell you that it was never valid, and you’re responsible for the overage fee. I don’t know why this is legal, but it is.
Sure, why not? You’re selling yourself off piecemeal to the sadist, not becoming an employee.
Why would it matter? The way things are set up, there’s no reason for the billionaire not to take your word.
After a few days of dealing with childish antics at work I’d be very tempted to take option 10, spend all of the cash from option 9 and below to fund prosthetic research and sit on a beach and hire people to pander to my every whim until they’re ready.
I was a machinist back in the 1970’s back before OSHA regulations, and quite a few of the guys in the shop were nicknamed after missing body parts. Kind of like mafia nicknames, Bernie the Hook and Nine-Fingered Johnny and such. Anyway, one guy had lost a finger and received the maximum compensation for the injury,which was a certain number of weeks pay. Currently it’s 46, but I don’t remember what it was at the time.
Subsequent to that he lost a hand. Did I mention he was a little clumsy? For the loss of a hand the maximum compensation is 244 weeks pay, but they did deduct the weeks he had already been paid for the finger. No double dipping, they’d already paid for it once.
Yes Sir.I myself am willing to sell my pinky finger
Thank you
Tough question. The rates specified are positively devilish, not easy to take and not easy to dismiss.
My struggle is not that I want more money personally, it’s that charitable causes could really use all that money. But, then, trying to make the world better with money is the sport of kings – it’s entering a huge competition, a great playing field on which many people are trying to make the world worse with their money (think rightist American billionaires) – and I don’t want to be on the field in the first place, I don’t think I could ever seriously compete.
Probably 2 - likely both middles.
Have we been taking pills and watching The Twilight Zone again?
I’m disappointed. When I saw this zombie revived, I was expecting to see a news story about someone actually selling their fingers.
This is eight years old. Have the dollar figures been indexed for inflation ?
You realize this is not an auction site, right?
Thinking about it a bit more …
It would certainly intensify the point one makes when saying that they “could count the number of [insert situation, occurrence, or other thing here] on one hand.”
Try this. The only version of the video I could find is on facebook, but it played for me and I’m not on facebook.