HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY TO LEARN A NEW SKILL?

A survery conducted by Lingoda.com, an online learn-a-foreign-language company, looked into the dreams and desires of 2,000 Americans and found out how much the average American would be willing to pay to learn a new skill:
The average American would pay…
– $5,694.20 to be able to speak a foreign language
– $5,695.92 to play an instrument
– $5,226.68 to become a great chef
– $6,220.22 to be a good public speaker
– $8,192.17 to be good in bed.
* I can see my wife right now checking the couch cushions for lost change to buy me those good in bed lessons.
* Or you could spend the $8,192.17 on hookers who don’t care how good you are.
* So now we know what price the computer chips will be that will be implanted in our brains that will instantly let us know a foreign language, become a chef, play an instrument…
* It’s not the dollar amount that’s interesting, it’s the extra 22 or 68 or 57 cents that’s tacked on.
* What if you wanted to be a good public speaker in a foreign language? Could you get a discount?
* Obviously there were quite rigorous parameters on this extremely scientific study.

But what would you pay to have these superpowers?
– $128,278.90 to time travel
– $123,072.60 to have the ability to turn invisible
– $122,966.65 to be able to teleport
– $118, 591.70 to read minds
– $108, 669.11 to fly
* I’d pay $128,000 to time travel, because then I’d steal a sports almanac and go back in time a make money betting on sports, like Biff in “Back to the Future 2”.
* What if you paid all that money to become invisible, then turned invisible and they couldn’t find you to collect their money?
* So … are they getting any actual work done over at Lingoda.com?