The Powerball lottery is up to $1 billion tonight. If you won it, what would you do?
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Keep it a secret.
Exactly. Do as little as required by the laws of where you live and immediately get the fuck away from wherever you are and start the process to emigrate to a different country. Christmas and Thanksgiving will now be done over video chat.
You won’t fly your family in on your private jet?
Nope. They’re the ones most likely to murder me. Just me, my wife, and our cats. Minimal chances of murder. Except from one of the cats but if it comes down to it, I think I can take her.
Keep a million for fun, everything else, buy a very conservative and diversified portfolio, borrow against it and purchase real estate worldwide in places with water access and least affected by climate change. With profits start funding antifa, anarcho-syndicalist, ecosocialist, and similar movements.
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Until they eat you.
Pretty sure they would not eat the person funding them. Militant groups tend to like funding and toys for their activities.
More power to you comrade.
If you are buying real estate, you won’t be funding “antifa” or any of the other things you are fantasizing. Profit-bearing RealEstate is directly counter to all of those movments, and once they start threatening you, you’ll immediately pivot to funding the status-quo.
Realistically, and assuming I claimed it and handled the financial and legal aspects of having that much money, I’d do this;
Pay off my debts, as well as those of my parents and sister, then help friends pay off everything. Then buy a nice house and nice stuff, leave my job, then travel.
Then I’d see what sorts of things I can use my money to improve, or who I can help.
While money is nice for security, I don’t need or want anywhere remotely close to 1$billion at one time. That amount of money is dangerous.
Not tell anyone and just quietly retire. Spend as much time as possible with my kids as they grow.
Buy a bottle of McCallans 12yr and a 8ball and see where I wake up next week.
I would come back here and give 1 mil to everyone who upvote me and 2 mil for op
I upvoted you seven thousand times. Someone else must have given that many downvotes which is the only explanation for why your score is not 7000.
Unfortunately for you, lemmy (not sure about kbin) shows upvotes and downvotes as separate numbers…
Talk to a major law firm about accepting the prize as anonymously as possible. Take the lump sum -payment to the lawyer team and divide it into thirds. One third goes into a trust that I can direct friends and family to with instructions to offer assistance for major life events, weddings, funerals, education and the like. That way I never have to be the bad guy who says yeah, no.
The second third will get invested into low risk bonds so I have a stable income forever
The final third will become what people normally do with lottery winnings, new home, that kind of stuff
- Hire a fiduciary consultant/accountant to ensure the money is invested into accounts where I can live off the interest more than comfortably.
- Travel to all the places my wife and I want to go.
- Buy citizenship (via investor visa) in the best developed country that fits our lifestyle and life priorities.
- Buy a nice but not extravagant house.
- Buy all the non-essential stuff I’ve always wanted to buy.
- Hire a personal chef who will cook healthy AND delicious meals for us everyday, so I only need to cook when I actually want to.
- Give a lump sum to each of my immediate family members and my wife’s mom and brother. We trust them enough to not abuse the privilege of having a billionaire family member.
I would honestly just disappear.
If I had enough money that I can just go “fuck you”, that’s what I’d do. I’d obviously help my family financially, but probably not as a lump sum except to help them buy property to make houses on. But beyond that, I would basically be away and uncontactable. No one would know where I am and what I’m up to except maybe a couple times a year.
The bigger question is actually what type of charity I’d end up doing. I have some distrust for charities, so I’d want to take a more direct approach, so in all likelihood, I’d be helping a number of small creators I believed in to see if they could get a chance at establishing themselves better.
I’ll tell ya what I’d do, man. Two chicks at the same time, man.
That’s it? If you won the lottery, you’d do two chicks at the same time?
Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
Well, not all chicks.
The type of chicks that would double up on a dude like me do.
Good point.
Give my uncles, aunts and cousins a cool mil each, give my mom and my sister 10 mil each, buy some real estate on the coasts, and most likely fund some Democrats in Florida and Texas, do some traveling
Among other things, I’d keep going to work. I enjoy my job. What I’ll really enjoy is every time someone tries to pawn off something on me that’s not actually my job I’ll tell them, “not my job”
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Pay off my mortgage, invest it and live off the interest, and spend the rest of my life traveling with my wife
Pay off my house, pay off close friends and family houses, buy a bunch of land, buy cool cars, travel.
As one stand up comedian once said: the biggest issue is not what to do with the money, but how to keep it secret from the people around you
