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I’ll buy $100m worth of stocks from all the public companies every month.
For a genie it may sound like gambling.
I call it investing jf I can reason the reaons for specific stocks.
genie just doesn’t know how to read fundamentals
I’m just not sure if making an ancient wishmaster aware of stock trading is a good idea.
Stocks are liquid enough that the genie may not consider it “spending”. You could easily buy it, and then just as easily dump it. The move is also big enough that you’ll single handedly move the market in the process.
Genie: Listen here you little shit
No gambling
Easy! Just spend the month in a US hospital without insurance
Hopefully the billion will cover the rest of the bill
You know it won’t
I could blow 100M monthly on AWS. Probably take me the first month to spin it all up, easy from there.
Ill show up to dealership row and just start buying out car dealerships until I hit 100m and have that done in an afternoon
Bad investment, you can’t resell them for nearly as much and you’ve contributed to the automobile industry that is lobbying hard against climate change policy
I’d start buying up mid-sized companies and reorganizing them as worker co-ops. Doing some long-term good while not violating the terms of the contract
If you’re just after the money, do as every billionaire looking to launder some money does and buy art.
Warhammer!!
Genie: There are 5 rules…
I mean c’mon genie, that barely covers my Kharadron, Drukhari, and Votan dream collections.
The problem is that it’s so much money that you can clear out the inventory of almost anything you would buy while only chewing a few percent off the bankroll. Provided you can close on them in time, buying up some high end houses, or just a whole lot of land, is probably your best bet. Being a cash deal on your end helps move the paperwork faster. They’re also durable goods that don’t need a warehouse to be stored, and don’t need any maintenance for a while.
The problem is that it’s so much money that you can clear out the inventory of almost anything you would buy while only chewing a few percent off the bankroll.
Then you have to pay to berth it somewhere, and for maintenance because your boat touches salt water. Land will just sit there until you can flip it, though you do have some property taxes and insurance. A handful of acres around Beverly Hills will do it.
I like boats. Plus I’m a billionaire now.
I’ll just pay someone 100 million to punch the genie
Just buy some commercial property, island, luxury house that is worth 100M, it can be done in less then a week. 3 weeks left to think and organize how to spend 1 billion in 1 day.
No you’re getting somewhere. Buy 1B in property put it in a company. Then use that as a mortgage to get a higher loan to buy some more. This way you can in addition avoid paying taxes.
Well if everyone has a price, I’m gonna get that girl!
I’d spend 100M in a month easily. Especially after I’ve bankrolled GrapheneOS, Ladybird and all my favourite FOSS projects. They also didn’t say anything about charity which IMO isn’t gifting. Once I feel like I’ve sufficiently contributed to society I’d buy a 50ft sailboat, pimp the shit out of it with solar and fuck off forever.
With the billion I’d establish a fund that pays out monthly to any projects I deem worthy and funds all food banks in my local area indefinitely.
Especially after I’ve bankrolled GrapheneOS, Ladybird and all my favourite FOSS projects.
According to the book The Starfish and the Spider, which is about decentralized organization versus centralized organization, the Spanish Empire was able to defeat the previously-undefeatable Apache resistance by giving gifts of horses to some of the Apache leaders. It provided them status, creating a hierarchy, turning the Apache society into the sort of thing that could be destroyed in conventional battle.
Not saying it’s a very tight analogy, but I would be wary of changes in team culture resulting from a project going from volunteer based to well-funded.
Obviously open source projects need resources, such as servers and github accounts and all that, but spirits change when resource flows change, and projects excel or flub on spirit.
No gifting.
Then maybe graphene OS would be able to get enough people to maintain non-pixel builds.
YOU DIDN’T SAY AZURE, RACKSPACE, OR OVH!
I’ll buy 3 yachts. Pre-paid.
Since buying and giving in permament use is not gifting, I can go with that option.
I feel like I could easily spend that in microtransactions on some scummy mobile game.
Diablo Immortal entered the chat.
“Do you guys not have-”
“ohh dont worry, i’ve got ALL the phones”
Just buy one ticket to a Taylor Swift concert and you’re already a billion dollar richer
