What I do would be redacted here, but when I am done there would be no more billionaires.
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He’d probably wonder why I was in his house
First thing?
Probably buy my wife something nice.
Next, I would love to upgrade and spoil the homeless shelter behind my work. I always fantasize about being able to afford food, socks and blankets to distribute.
First selfish thing? Build a new computer.
99M in a trust fund for me, my immediate family, extended family and friends. We would live relatively modest and give generously.
901M would go to a wide assortment of charities and causes:
- Fund my local foodbank for the next 50 years. Perhaps even a dynasty trust.
- Tackle youth unemployment and unmet community needs through investing in non-market solutions. E.g. build greenhouses with raised beds in urban brownfield and greenfield property, hire local people to grow resilient local foods and donate them throughout the community. Some local old age homes had some complaints about food quality and budget and they wanted things like fresh ripe tomatoes. I’d given them 3 seasons worth for free and pay for the equipment, labour, insurance out of pocket. Local youth could get high school credits, jobs not just gardening, but designing and improve closed ag systems, plumbing, deep winter greenhouse design and engineering, logistics, everything. Good experience and spending money. Maybe turn into a market career for some.
Build a few multiplexes as high quality PassiveHousePlus and operate as self funded charity built and operated using only local labour for womans & homeless shelters
I have a few friends in social services and I guarenfuckentee a shitload of orphans and foster kids and poor kids supervised by children services would get new toys, clothes, shoes, bedding, pillows, christmas presents from a bad ass santa, art supplies, comic books, tuition, books, enrichment activity fees and more. Some have this through foster parents and public systems. Way too many don’t.
I can’t help everyone and even this money won’t last long, but Imma go out swinging hard.
paying lobbyists to right for right to repair and privacy laws in the US, and bringing data brokers and patent trolls into never ending litigation.
I was thinking this too like “I’d be the lobbyist you would want to be lobbying”
You’d be fighting against other billionaires with established lobbying connections. I feel like you’d blow your billions and have nothing to show for it.
I think with a billion and a push for public support it would be doable.
Maybe pay 500 musicians (generally my choice of music) x $20/hr x 3000 hours (about 1.5 person-years) (= $30 million) to write and record anything they want, but it has to be original and released into the public domain.
Exceptions could be made for derivatives of music already in the public domain.
Occasionally I might check on them for if they are composing, or composing and recording; and originality.
I might pay for novelty songs such as hard rock and heavy metal on horns; Suicide’s Ghost Rider but replace synths with tuba and harmonica; nonagenarian socialist to do Kid Rock’s Bawitdaba; Trump and Epstein look-a-likes do Nugent’s Little Miss Dangerous; etc.
Start strategically: just buy your way into overturning money in politics. Fire with fire baby!!!
With a billion dollars?! I’m crying sad tears and laughing at the same time.
2 billion dollars of PAC money was spent in the 2024 presidential election.
That’s a single year. One election cycle.
In order to overturn Citizen’s United, you would need at least a couple of Supreme Court justices, too. So you need enough money to elect uncorrupted politicians to Congress, so that they can approve judges who are also not corrupt.
I think people HUGELY underestimate how much money flows into politics now that PACs are legal. Why the fuck else would Trump suddenly get interested in politics at his late stage in life?
Turn my country the fuck around so that public servants represent people and decisions are made to improve the lives of people.
Same as I do every morning. A big mug of coffee and a big shit.
No amount of money would change that.
You could afford a bigger mug though.
And a warm Japanese toilet, with lights and music.
Yeah, but I’m not gonna go mug shopping until I’ve had my coffee
Probably fuck some kids to blend in
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Destroy capitalism by out competing everyone.
Dude right wouldn’t it be wild if instead of taking as many nickels dimes and pennies as humanly and economically possible for any and every single purchase you just took like, still an insane life changing amount that would make you rich and were able to provide for your entire family on and put everyone else out of business?
“Turns out instead of taking 80% profit margins I got 30% instead and that’s how I put Amazon out of business” meanwhile you’re still able to be stinking rich with more than any human could possibly ever spend in 100 lifetimes.
It depends on which billionaire I’m supposedly waking up. Sounds like a shitty job though.
I’d take my family and leave behind the shithole that is the United States. God, I hate it here because of Republicans.
Guillotine myself. I can’t let myself be a hypocrite lol
Completely squandering the endless possibilities of being the first billionaire with a soul
Put him to sleep agai, with a brick.
Cocaine then a sub to check out Titanic. Pretty standard, really.
Probably yell WOOHOO.
Next is quit my job.
A new off-grid house. We have a lot of power outages here every winter.
An older used car (I want nothing to do with a new car which are basically rolling spyware).
Start helping the worse off in my area such as the homeless and those living below the poverty line.
You are a billionaire you can custom design a new car with no spyware using reliable parts from other large brands
Very true but that will take time, months at a minimum.
