I find this whole idea fascinating.  And while Axlin mentioned cabin fever, I'd be equally concerned that spending 10 years alone with the same person would drive me just as mad.  I mean sure, who wouldn't want to fuck an attractive 18 year old, and 10 years later she's still going to be hot.  But to anyone who's lived in a dorm or had a room mate can tell you, spend enough time with someone - even your best friend - and you're eventually gonna go to blows.  And unfortunately you can't walk away from this situation.  You can't go to the bar for a few hours to cool off.  No, you're gonna be trapped in the same room with the person.  And as any guy knows, the woman won't shut the fuck up and drop the subject.  She'll keep egging you and egging you on until your fingers are wrapped around her throat and her lifeless corpse hangs from your hands.

And then what?  I mean, if you're being observed you're fucked.  Someone is gonna bust in momentarily and you just traded a furnished basement for 10 years to a prison cell for life.  But let's assume you're not monitored.  Let's assume you're walled in with no outside support less you push a panic button.  What do you do with the dead girl?  Never mind that when the 10th year ends you have some explaining to do.   You have a decaying body in an enclosed area.  If the guilt and panic didn't get you, smelling that thing for months is sure gonna do it.

No, the only way to do this right and have the best shot at sanity is the internet.  That allows you contact and communication with the outside world.  Hell, a large segment of our society lives under those conditions willingly.  I'm laid up right now to a foot surgery and I have no reason to leave my house for a while.  10 years would be excessive and everyone enjoys the option to go out.  But the fools bet is taking the girl.  Mark my words.  Forget the girl and take the internet.

I'm going for $10 million

Internet -16
Fast food -4  (this assumes a loose definition of fast food.  Does Chinese takeout count?)
All books - 4
All Movies & TV - 4
Pool Table - 1
Gun - 1  If I decide to end it due to illness or sheer boredom (assuming I can't leave)

Can't you use paypal now to pay for your subscription directly?

And I'm telling you the playing field is level.  I don't know your personal history and specifics.  I don't know what you majored in during college.  I'm not arrogant enough to try to make a personsal critique.  What I do have are statistics.  And I say again, unemployment rate is 4.5% for people over 25 with a 4 year degree.  That is a statistically insignifant number.  It's an outlier.  When taking in account people who are between jobs or desire not to work, that figure is almost zero.

Yes, people like you may be unable to find a job.  And that sucks.  but it's not indicative of the entire system.  I'm been getting a lot of briefings from recruitment firms since I'm planning to exit the military in roughly a year.  And the biggest inhibitor for people finding empoyment is expectation in terms of geography and job title.  Someone who refuses to oleave their current location and has their eyes set on a specific job are dramatically reducing their pool of employment opportunities. 

The other major discrepancy is pay expecation.  Someone just entering the job market shouldn't expect to be brought in at a high pay.  Anything over 40k for a recent college grad with little work experience is swinging for the fences.  It's a gradual increase over one'e career.  All this bullshit about a livable wage.  Define livable wage to me?  Personally i think 200$ a month is a steal for health insurance.  Most people I know pay more than that out of pocket for their company funded plan. 

I'd tell you to avoid Cramer's suggestion that people don't get insurance.  That's bad advice in my opinion.  Horror stories are abound, but we're not interested in the suspenseful and emotional stories the 24 hour news media latches on to.  We want to look at the norm. 

No you're not entitled to health insurance or health care.  That is a service provided by people who undergo years of intensive schooling and assume huge costs in liability insurance because every person with an ailment is looking to blame someone else and an easy payday.  Show me a government document that says you're entitled to medical care.  You can't because it's not a right or entitlement.

There is a direct correlation between government involement in public medicine and providers and its cost.  The other simple reality is that technology costs money.  It's not some doctor with a couple tools anymore.  It's a multimillion dollar MRI machine with a shit ton of other expensice medicines and machines to diagnose and treat you.  Those machines cost money and the use of them has to be passed on to the patients using them. 

People love to say they'd gladly pay more in taxes to cover social medicine.  But I call bullshit.  To achieve parity with our European counterparts, that would spike your average tax payer by 25%.  I already pay 1k a month in federal taxes.  I don't want to pay more.  what people really mean when they say raise taxes, is raise taxes on someone else - the rich boogeyman.  Nevermind that forcing someone who is financially successful to pay 100s of times more than the average person is unfair and counter to a notion of democracy where everyone is an equal partner.  the rich earned their money through hard work and sweat at some point.  i get that trustfund babies exist, but they're not the majority and who are you or anyone else to tell someone that they can't pass their success on to others.  It's an arbitrary line in the sand.  These same people have no problem paying for their kids to goto college, yet if I suggested we make them pay for other kids to goto school out of their own pocket and not via someone else, well you end up with the Occupy movement.

Bottom line is there is no free ride.  I went to one of the proverbial shitty schools.  I chose to pay enough attention and learn what I needed to in order to get accepted to a state university.  I volunteered 7 years of my life via military service in order to have that college paid for.  And I was still to fucking dumb to live within my means and racked up over 50k in credit card debt and loans because I thought I was entitled to a better standard of living.  Yea, you read right.  I had my entire college paid for - tuition, room, board, book exspenses and even a monthly stipend of $300 and I still felt I was entitled to more and spent and borrowed wrecklessly.  Well the piper came get his due and my ass suffered for a few years.  I still buy shit I don't need like a new Camaro and Harley, but at least now I can afford it and have paid off all my debt I accrued. 

i tell this story because 50k is a fair price for a college education at any state university.  Anyone going into debt over that to get a degree from something they consider more prestigious is an idiot.  I started out at the same average pay for a recent college grad right around 30k a year.  And gradually I got a pay increase to where I sit now.  So I've been there.  I've walked the walk.  No one left me a trust fund or paid my way.  I did it.  But it sucked a shit ton at times and I was often unhappy.  So when people try to identify as an exception to the rule, I have to ask are they doing everything they can to better their situation or are they falling victim to the whoah is me and I deserve better. 

When you start adding in all the reasons why you can't take a job in Oklahoma when you presently reside in Maine, then we're really getting to the issue.  You bought a house?  Well you obviously didn't financially plan for something within your means and stability.  Kids, other debts?  Same thing.  In my opinion, most people who have marketability and yet are still unemployed, are people with piss poor expecation management.  My friend John is a great example.  never mind he has a piss poor work ethic and was fired from two jobs because he spouts off Gingrich style conservative comments at anyone who will listen and is an open homophobe and closet racist.  He was offered 3 jobs when he got canned from his last one, but thought they were beneath him.  So now he is 32 and lives at home with his parents.  All because he'd rather do that and have some false sense of self worth, than accept a job that pays him 35k a year.  In my book, it'd make more sense to take the 35k job and keep farming for something better.  but John and the Occupy crowd feel bitching and false sense of worth are much more productive.

What is more fearful?  The badman who runs your country killing your family because of their race, political beliefs or just because he sees your dad as a threat, or the incredibly unlikely chance that the US will randomly send a missle into your neighborhood?  I can't think of too many incidents where missles were just randomly sent to populated areas.  And when they were, people were given notice to get out.  War sucks and innocents suffer, but any Iraqi or Afghani have a much higher chance of being harmed by their own countrymen and government than they do by the US.  Then again, when you hide terrorists or terrorists hide behind children, bad things sometimes happen.

I tried them earlier this week.  They still suck in my opinion