Inflation? RAM prices? Fuhgeddaboudit.
I dunno, prosthetics have only gotten cheaper and more advanced. $6M still buys some pretty top shelf tech.
“Uh, I have a memory chip in my thumb with a site license for Autodesk.”
HIRED!
So… You have really strong Bluetooth? Right
$6 million would be his annual subscription with tons of vendor lock-in. He could maybe save a bit if he agreed to ads on the bionic eye?
Google Man+.
No need to spend $6,000,000 up front, there’s a nice affordable monthly service fee. Just sign this ULA, some data will be collected from the body.
A modern dystopian version would involve him having incurred the six million dollar debt for the costs of rebuilding him, with each episode being him taking on some kind of risky job to help pay part of it off. The finale would reveal that the sinister megacorp has no intention of letting him walk away with his bionics debt-free and set up the classic sort of action-movie confrontation
Six million medical debt? In 2026? That’s like, four aspirin and an overnight stay.
Kinda where the Venture Bros went with their 6 Million Dollar Man spoof.
That’s what everyone was meant to think, though I was barely alive after my test ship broke up, but the army saved me. They spent six million dollars to give me all new bionic parts. Made me stronger, better, faster than I was. Then you know what they did? They put me to work! They expected me to pay it all back! Do you have any idea how long six million bucks takes to pay off on a government salary!?
LOL what RAM? He would just be a dude with a hip bone prosthesis and all his teeth replaced.
If they build him, I hope they get rid of that noise he makes whenever he runs or jumps.
It’d be about $42 million, taking inflation into account. So at least a few more ram sticks.
TEMU
Twist - he’s just a normal American guy with some life-threatening & rare disease trying to get treatment.
The real bitch is the $100k a month subscription fees and required internet connection. If he loses signal, his kidney shuts down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)
Check out this black mirror episode.
My dad had an insulin pump and a pace maker, after those hospital bills he was the million dollar man.
