I would just ask my brother to give me $40. I think he would probably do that to avoid exploding.

My family: Sell a comic book.

My wife's family: Buy some popcorn.

Um...my job?

Sell my shirt to my dad for $40. I’m pretty sure he’d rather buy my shirt than explode.

Damn that sucks, all y'all unemployed?

I open my laptop and answer about six emails.

How exactly do you define making money though? I already have more than $40 could I purchase a product worth more than $40 and then return it? Could I steal $40 from somebody and then give it back once my family is no longer going to explode? Could I explain that my family is going to explode and politely request the money in hopes that someone believes me? How long do I need to retain the money? What if I just take something I own to a pawn shop? What if I gamble and I lose $50 and then later I make $40, I'm $10 down but technically I made $40 in the last transaction, have I satisfied the requirement?

Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.

Needless to say I'm not too fond of my family...

40 dollars? That's all? I'm salaried and can work any hours I want to, so I guess I'm logging in at work and writing a few lines of code or answering some emails.

Twenty minutes will do it. Probably round it up to half an hour just to be safe. And honestly, if I get into the zone, an hour will fly by, easy.

I make that in an hour of work. So... keep doing what I'm doing?

Go to work for an hour

Take my bottles to the depot

Ask a buddy to spot me 40

Sell a couple things

… check my bank account?

$40 isn’t that much money…

I feel like this is a "straight" boys wet dream. Perfect 'no homo' excuse to suck a dick.

"I did it to save my family".

Ask my friends to transfer money real quick.

Sit on my ass. Maybe play a video game.

Fuckers.

I would go to work at my job and earn more than $40 just like I do every day.

Make exactly $39

I could suck one dick and have $60 to get my family dinner after their ordeal.

Depends how you define "make"

If standard pay from job is too late, then I'd sell a CSP or CC from my brokerage account and I technically "made" the premium

If that's not urgent enough, take some jewelry to a pawn shop and hock it

Start suckin and fuckin 🫡

Go to a cash dispenser

Time to get into sex work.

I don't have anything I could sell that quickly, even.

I work one hour and jerk off for the remaining two.

Just pick up a shift at work.

So $13.33/h?

That's less than £10 which I believe would be below minimum wage in my country, so basically any job would do it

Explain the situation to my family and sell them stuff.

Can't I just take $40 out of my wallet?

Good old-fashioned robbery. Then when charged argue a defense of necessity.

To make such a defense, you have to show that the harm you sought to avoid exceeds the harmed caused by the crime you admit to performing. Robbing $40 from a random store obviously meets this threshold if the alternative is multiple people dying.

There are many cases where you can't argue a defense of necessity. For example, if someone threatens to kill your family unless you kill some other person, you can't argue a defense of necessity at your murder trial. You can't sacrifice one life to save another. But if the crime you commit is obviously orders of magnitude less destructive than the alternative? Then yes, simply robbing a store for $40 to prevent multiple deaths could easily be argued as a necessity.

Hell, even if you're not able to make that defense; it's 40 bucks. What are the odds I'll face anything other than probation for such a minor crime?

It's the obvious answer, but sometimes the simplest answers are best. If I simply have to make 40 dollars within the next 3 hours, or people die? Yeah I'm just straight-up robbing somewhere.

Sell my car to the next person who walks by, I guess.

But I'll hint to them (family) strongly that I won't be selling two cars, so they need to get less explodey.

Work one hour at my job.

sell a joke to my family for $40.

Donating plasma only takes about an hour

I ask my best friend for $40.

That's possible at most jobs here, so family is safe. If you mean outside of work, I'm a lady so could probably find & turn a trick in that amount of time, sure husband would even set it up rather than exploding, he has a friend who works with rich guys. Could make that with plenty to spare, I'd guess.

I scroll on my phone for a bit and call it a day.

Hop on the Uber hamster wheel again. And again. And again.