Just a wonder on how you’d spend it. I’d probably buy up some land and build a nice village or town kind of similar to Poundbury. I’d probably sell houses at a fair price but only to people who send in a CV and seem to be upstanding people who actually want to work and be a part of a community, as well as giving them a mortgage Then I’d have a nice mansion and pretend to be a Lord where I can look over my wonderful tenants and maybe buy them Christmas gifts and send them birthday cards. Help them out if they need it.
Basically what some Lords did centuries ago but probably more kinder. Oh, and the place will be built with nice old timey architecture as well. Probably cobble streets because screw cars lmao. I just want to give people a nice life I guess as well as LARP as nobility
Move to Europe, start a game studio, throw the rest in investments, donate the proceeds to try to reduce homelessness where I currently live.
quit my job and go out to eat. real creative i know.
Step one, have the best meal of your life *so far *
Pay off debts, secure a home paid off in full for my family, get new bike, and roam the world surreptitiously helping people.
Pay off all my debts and set the rest on fire
Call a national account and law firm to set the money up in a way that minimises the amount of tax owed for ongoing years.
Call some wholesale investment fund managers and invest a several hundred mill in each.
Trust funds for the family with liveable stipends. Gets replenished by the wholesale fund dividends.
Finally get my drivers licence sorted and see where the wife wants to visit.
I’ll tell you what I’d do, man. two chicks at the same time. And I think if I had 5 billion pounds I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.
Truthfully though I’d hook my family up bigtime for probably the next few hundred years and start hiring experts on how to deal with that kind of basically at least to me infinite money.
Hook your family up… With two chicks each???
Sounds reasonable. Now about this “family” designation . . .
- Pay off the remainder on my mortgage.
- Pay off my parents’ mortgage.
- Buy a new house that is large enough for my family to live comfortably in, without being ostentatious.
- Give my old home to my in-laws. They could use it.
- Set up a fund that produces enough interest for me and my family to live off of in perpetuity. $4 million in an account that produces 5.5% interest annually would be $220,000 (pre-tax) every year, which is plenty for our needs.
- Set up a foundation to help the poor, fund environmental projects, support social justice causes, and so on with all of the rest.
I do not need $6 billion. No one does. I don’t want it. It would ruin me. The absolute best thing I could do with it is dedicate the overwhelming majority of it to causes I believe in, rather than hoarding it or buying a bunch of stupid shit.
I agree with all of this. Except I would probably buy all the stupid shit I want because I have no concept of how all the stupid shit I want could amount to more than a rounding error.
I can easily afford all the stupid shit I’d actually want on $220K/year earnings from interest.
There’s an anime based on this idea. Higashi no Eden
But I would try to raise the quality of life of those in my circle and hopefully others. I like to think ~6 billion is a lot of cash but it won’t be enough to help everyone directly. So I would probably need to pick a few issues and start up an charity focused around the ideas of solving issues with censorship, access to the internet and providing a safe haven to oppressed lgbt individuals.
Buy the entire Supreme Court of the United States.
Dunno what I’d do with the other $6.415 billion though. Maybe start buying Congress members?
Dunno what I’d do with the other $6.415 billion though. Maybe start buying Congress members?
Ok, but then what would you do with the remaining $6.414 billion once you’ve bought all of congress then?
Come on, man. I’m running out of ideas here.
And when you go to war they’re obligated to go too, possibly even in your place
Yeah, I’m building at least one city from scratch. The big thing is going to be figuring out where.
You could probably buy out a small country
I may keep 1m, that’s way more than what I need to live this life and donate the rest to hospitals and education institutions.
So corrupt officials can fill their pockets?
Better to create those places yourself and remain their director so you can make sure the money goes where it is needed.
Do everything in my power to pass some privacy legislation for Americans, and overturn the Patriot Act. I probably don’t have nearly enough since I’d be going up against the biggest corporations in the world.
Make sure I set a few million aside for myself and family. Buy everyone I’m close with a house, and give them a few million each.
If there’s anything left, and there probably won’t be because I spent it all trying to get Congress to respect our right to privacy, then I’d start helping random struggling people who seem like good people. I suppose I’d form a foundation for that since I wouldn’t have the time to help as many people as possible.
This is based.
Build housing that would be rent-to-own. The only qualification would be paying first month’s rent and a deposit, then if you stay for 15 years you own the place. Price it for minimal profit (5-10%) and build/renovate a new set every year.
Well, besides the obvious of paying off mortgages and debts which wouldn’t even amount to a fraction of that, I’d buy an island to convert into a 24/7 mass paintball (or laser tag or something) warzone experience, like hundreds of people on both sides.
Sell the experience to people, classic Red team vs blue team, stay until you’re eliminated, barracks/camps, HQ, command structures, etc. It would be a live streamed competition with commentary, tactics, live go pro cams, everything. Maybe do it in seasons, have leaderboards, MVPs, whatever.
Players that have already been to the island before would be able to advise, or place bets on their accounts or whatever to build up load outs for their next trip.
The goal being a fun live game, exercise, stamina training, whatever, but mostly an outlet for the people in the world that get excited by war with the intention of hopefully reducing that with a safe environment.
I feel like if done correctly, and made as affordable as possible, it could turn into a relatively profitable business. I would then ensure the profits went to charities that provide aid to actual warzones and ensure that the primary message of the theme park is completely anti-war.
Any money leftover that didn’t go into that project I would donate and invest in animal welfare and conservation, renewable energy, and tackling the climate crisis.
