• amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    I’d spawn a million tons of cash above every single capitalist’s house and let them be suffocated to death by the thing they love most

  • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
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    Tell no one, live in my tiny house, buy high quality jeans, travel a lot by myself, get a library’s worth of books, and make art/video games all day.

  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Build and buy media networks and hire the best investigative journalists. Back centre-left political parties worldwide and back unions and backstop strike funds until the whole world strikes like the French. Fund electrified mass transit, renewable energy and passivehouse construction and urban controlled-environment agriculture. Fund orphanages, school food programs and poverty alleviation and social justice causes.

    I’d also start an eco-religion whose funding goes to a land trust that buys important and sensitive lands to return to wilderness and 50% can be lightly used by humans as national parks and 50% is forbidden for humans at all. Church of Gaia. The church would have monks who work as rangers/land defenders to enforce the holy order.

    I would live a quiet simple life in a relatively modest but comfortable passive house on a permaculture farm. My “car” would be a selection of percheron horses and a small selection of carriage/wagons.

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    If we had lots of time, then it’s easy. Just buy total market index funds and sit and wait. This is why vampires are usually rich. If you’ve lived that long, and you’re not rich, you’re doing something wrong.

    $2 at 7% a year for 50 years = $58.91

    $2 at 7% a year, for 500 years = $1,505,863.24

    The power of compound interest!

  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    If I had infinite money, I would create Medicare for All as a private company.

    It’d be like shooting all the healthcare CEOs at once.

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    Really? Keep it so quiet.

    Would do the things to the house that we say we’d do if we had all the money. But not more. Get the car my husband wants, but with a loan so it’s not so obvious. I don’t need one. Start putting the max into the retirement accounts and pull an extra couple thousand to pay for stuff each month.

    I feel like this would basically need to be laundered like crime money, if we wanted to do more with it, even good things. Would think on it, but without a way to do that I would just use it.

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    Keep it a secret, give some money to those in need, and go see as many movies as I want without worrying about money