u/Far_Customer1258

Not per day worked, that'd be too simple.

Scenario 1:

You have a big red round button. The sort that seems to suggest that you shouldn't press it unless you really mean it. Happily, it has a safety cover to prevent accidental activation. Also, it's magic, so it only responds to intent.

When you press this button two things happen. One, you get $100,000 deposited directly into your bank account. No taxes, no questions asked, no funny business. Spend it however you like. Two, you lose a day from your life. The Fates snip it from the end, painlessly and seamlessly. The cough worsens faster, or you step off the curb without looking a little sooner. You die exactly how you would have died, just one day earlier. How? Magic.

For reference, a million dollars will cost you ten days. A year of your life will get you $36.5 million. A cool billion will run you just under twenty-seven and a half years.

How often do you press Button #1?

Scenario 2:

This scenario is much like the previous one, except the button is purple and square, so that you don't confuse them.

>!The big difference is that when you push this button, the day is removed from somebody else's life. Somebody, somewhere in the world dies a day earlier than they would have otherwise. This is indetectable and untraceable. Only you will ever know that it happened.!<

>!Every time that you press the button, the Fates will choose somebody at random from the entire population of the world to take the day from. So it's very unlikely that anybody will lose more than a single day unless either they're very, very unlucky or you press the button a lot.!<

How often do you press Button #2?

You're browsing through the wares of a Cursed Magic Shop when you accidentally brush up against a magic lamp. There's a cloud of violet smoke, and a djinn appears. It grants you three very specific wishes. It will insert three specific counter-facts into the minds of any three people on Earth. No matter what they later learn, those notions will remain embedded deep within their minds, and they will continue to act as if it were true. But the thought has to be specific. No simply erasing somebody's memories or giving them a generic psychosis.

For example, you could make Jeff Bezos believe that he owes you $200 Billion. Or that marmosets are stealing his hair while he sleeps. Or that Blue Origin is actually a K-Pop group that he's part of.

How do you use your powers? Good? Evil? Power? Wealth? Your own personal amusement?

And who do you target with what?