Well, if what happens to **other **people represents a change in your circumstances, your wish is broken anyway…
Tell that to the Djinni! 
No, only insofar as it impacts me (I suppose I should have specified negatively). I guess everybody getting rich and happy would be quite likely to affect me in some way though.
You can’t ask for things to both change and stay unchanged…
But here goes: Everyone is made richer, happier, and more fortunate than you. Then, you are all stoke in a 1-second time-loop, thus ensuring you or your circumstances never change.
Well, if you’re going to play it that way, he could twist anything any way he liked and the whole question is pointless. Ask for a bar of nice chocolate and he gives you a rock and says “well, that’s what I call ‘nice chocolate’, today”. No point even playing.
I can ask for things other than myself to be changed, without immediate contradiction, at least.
I would ask the Djinni: “I wish that you fall permanently and unselfishly in love with me”
I wanted to play, but the only thing I could think of would result in me being responsible for a one foot tall piano player. 
Sgt Schwartz
The Djinni, being unselfish, knows that it is best for your spirit that your karma be allowed to fulfill itself minimally encumbered by outside influences. The Djinni will always be there with an adoring gaze (evil, but adoring) to listen to your dreams and fears, but will otherwise take no action to affect your life.
Let’s try taking off of an old joke: I’d like all lawyers to get by on an annual income of half of mine.
That was an intersting X-files. Mulder wishes for peace (or something I don’t remeber the exact wording) and everyone is dead. he reverses the wish.
For his third, he starts getting smart and writing it down, getiing al lawyery (all I remeber is “planes of existance”)
And of course the SNL “People’s Court” whoever vs Mesitopheles
Hmm. “I wish for you to grant me an unlimited number of additional wishes, which will be interpreted in the manner implied and not just the literal meaning. There will be no time loops, alternate realities or similar dodges to modify this wish”
(needs work, but something along that line)
Brian
The djinn concedes such a wallet will have inherent value. But when the British economy experiences hyperinflation and a loaf of bread costs £100,000, its main value will be as a dispenser of colorful toilet paper.
In relatively short order, government agents notice a wave of bills all bearing the exact same serial numbers. Tracing them back to you, they bust you for forgery.
“I wish you were a GOOD Djinn, with nothing but good will towards humanity…”
FML
Heh. I didn’t notice this one before 
The Djinn takes over SDMB, erases all of the forums and threads, leaving only your thread. It also blocks all new posts, thus making sure every hit on SDMB will give you the required thread. Then, it also changes the behavior of every search engine so that no matter the key word, it will return only links to the SDMB thread in question. To top things off, he makes sure that every hyperlink on each and every website will lead you there as well. Thus, it renders the internet practically useless, but makes sure you can always find your precious little thread. Thanks a lot, buddy! :mad:
Well, given that you are now, by request, the poorer man on earth, things are bound to change for you – you’ll find it harder to purchase things, for example.
But here are a few ideas:
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The Djinn makes everyone richer, happier, more fortunate than you. In order to ensure they stay richer than you, he match everyone’s income / outcome to yours: for every dollar you spend, their riches diminishes by 1$, for every dollar you earn, their increases by 1$.
Soon, people realize that their actions bear no consequences upon their financial status. Everyone consider it very fortunate, and happily decide to stop working, leaving the burden of the world economy upon your shoulders. As the economy crumbles, everyone blame you. -
The Djinn makes everyone rich, happy, and fortunate. While at it, he also makes everyone uninterested in sex, family or children – after all, children cost money, and may cause unhappiness. Thus, once the last (rich, happy, fortunate) currently pregnant woman gives birth to the last (happy, rich, fortunate) baby, no more babies are conceived. Then, everyone grows older, until the last (rich, happy, fortunate) human being dies. You have caused the extinction of mankind.
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Since we have agreed the dying is unfortunate: The Djinn makes everyone richer, happier, and more fortunate than you, while not changing anything else. This lasts until you die in the natural course of events. Then, the Djinn, still following the command, makes everyone dirt-poor (but still richer than you, as dead people have no riches), miserable (but no more unhappy than you, as you are dead), and quite unfortunate (but no unfortunate enough to die).
The world decides that lawyers are very important, and passes international laws allowing lawyers to get whatever they want for free. Every lawyer in the world get by an annual income of $1 (as they don’t need money at all), but you have to get by with $2 / year. Good luck!
Djinn: “I grant you infinite amount of wishes! You will live until all of them are fulfilled!”
He then vanishes, never to be seen again.
You do not die. First, it saddens you to observe every loved one age and die, while you remain alive. Then, you start making money, exploring the possibilities of long-term investments. But soon (within a millennium or so), that, too, looses its charm. You then note with regret the extinction of the human race from a meteor hit they were unable to prevent. You are left the only living thing on earth as the sun expands before reducing to black dwarf. Alone, cold, and gloomy you sit upon the ages as the universe reaches its heat death.
Floating alone in space, cold, hungry, lonely, and miserable, one wish echoes through your all being: I want it to end. Alas, the Djinn is forever gone. 
Interesting…
Maybe this: The Djinn realizes that human existence must always be accompanied by misery and pain. Wishing nothing but good, he stops the suffering by vanishing (painlessly) everyone from existence.
Here’s one of my own: “I wish that, by changing me and me alone, and without directly changing anyone else, to be make wiser – by 50 IQ points as they are currently defined. No other changes are to be made by you to me or anything / anyone else.”
Think about it. Would being so wise that you have no illusions really be a gift?
take it from experience… genius is pain…
fml
The djinn provides you with a wallet containing a £20 note that cannot be removed, no matter how hard you try.
Being smart doesn’t make you perceptive…
I was specifically not aiming at being the smartest ever. Adding 50 to my current IQ estimation would place me well into the “highly genius” regime, but would still be far less then, for example, Marilyn vos Savant’s 238. One of the reasons to not wanting to be the smartest ever is my desire to maintain social contacts. I do not think that being smarter, even to the point of being very smart indeed, would necessarily “diss-illusionate” me to much.
Is being a genius a pain? I don’t know… but I’d like a chance to find out.
Well then suppose the Djinn augmented your intelligence by augmenting the physical size of your brain. You’d be real smart but you’d look like Stewie Griffin.