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Comment author: tim 14 December 2012 04:10:35PM 0 points [-]

I would think that if our hypothetical wealthy person was rich enough to not care all that much about an additional $20 million, they wouldn't care enough about the initial $55 million to pick the short-term option that netted them less money.