1) Never work for anyone else again.
2) Fix my fricking house finally.
3) Give 10 or so million to my closest family and friends.
4) Put 1/5 of what's left into a retirement account.
5) Disappear from society, except to buy food, essentials, and hobby supplies.
6) Die a few decades later with a significant chunk still leftover, because regardless of my spending, I'm still more frugal than most people.
Before that happens, I'm splitting what's left between surviving loved ones.
Newest Reality Television show.
Its like squid game crossed with american gladiators.
Unarmed Contestants have to navigate obstacles while chimps shoot at them.
It'll just be one chimp at a time, for the most part, to cut costs. Except during the bonus round, where they pick 2 chimps for twice the money or 3 chimps for three times the money.
7 months ago
Anonymous
well have to put up bullet proof barricades for the studio audience, of course. And well have hire people to scrub the poo off the set.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Dammit, your making a mistake, Jim! I worked at a zoo, i know how eager those chimps are to kill humans! You give them a gun and you don't know what will happen!
7 months ago
Anonymous
You comments, while valid, are inconsequential to the plot of this story. I am sure whatever happens, it will be hilarious fun for the whole family!
7 months ago
Anonymous
We can dress em up in little costumes. Well dress one up like Jhon Wayne and call him Pilgrim.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>scrub the poo off the set.
and the blood!
7 months ago
Anonymous
It'll bomb in the states, but be a hit in North Korea
Donate most of it. Pay off my mortgage. Buy a ton of stocks and live off the dividends. I’d keep working but cut back to two days a week just so it feels like I’m still doing something. Maybe volunteer a day or two as well.
people get so boring when they get older. Its always the same shit.
>New Car >New House >Invest >Sports Cars >Helicopters >Private Jet
Its like they have no clue what they would do with the money, they've just given up on ever having that much so they say the most boring thing imaginable.
It’s what I do already with my money. I have nearly 100k in stocks. I like to live a quiet life with my wife and a few friends. Money just brings out what already exists. I might like to travel a bit more but I already do that.
How much money can you actually imagine existing? Money that is real money, not stocks or debts or bonds. I can think of 200 million, sitting in a savings account, earning 3%, just like a trillionaires walking around money, not really much more than a checking account. I can imagine it 'existing', but I can't imagine possessing it, you know?
people always say stuff like, 10 million in drug money sitting in a duffel bag. A big factor isn't about the money, its how easy it comes to you, what you have to do to get it.
thats exactly what happens when you donate it though. It goes into some homosexuals pocket and hardly is used for the purpose of the charity. Thats why so many politicians have foundations. For that reason and easy money laundering.
I want to make a halloween themed theme park that operates all year round. We'll circulate rumors that people go missing there and make a honey pot for serial killers. Our mascot will be a 500 hundred foot tall statue of the demon from Disney's Fantasia, with mild cosmetic modifications to avoid copyright issues.
we'd stay open through the night and mostly closed during the day time. We'll have a section for metal bands and older freakazoids to hang out, we'll book Korn and Slipknot cover bands and book 'avante garde' tasteless horror acts.
After making sure I never work a day in life so I can focus on my passions. >Start up a company to get any TTRPG I want translated into english. >Go to random places in the world I think are interesting to inspire myself to make shit. Whenever I have an idea, go live it for a bit. >Make a mech/animatronic monster that I can stomp around in.
Put half of it in a high interest savings account. Use the other half to build a my own block of houses for myself, friends, and family. Center of the neighborhood is a game room where, despite going to extreme lengths to ensure people will have as few distractions or responsibilities as possible, we will still be cancelling game night on a regular basis.
>Buy GW >Retcon AoS via time travel back into WHFB but introduce the realms into it (with the Old World as the central hub for it all) as some crazy side-effect of averting the End Times if not just for a longer time >Revert the clock on 40K, go back to lore before 8th ED, revert the renamings, rework the Votann into the Squats people wanted them to be as well as giving some actual love to those parts of races and factions that needed it >Throw out diversity hires and hire people that love the hobby and love the settings...as well loving myths, legends, folklore and history (not to mention sci-fi and being good at lorewriting, scuplting and painting)
I'd commission people to paint most my minis instead of doing it myself. I'd paint generals, and special units, and a couple myself, because I DO enjoy painting, but I'd prefer to get these guys ready to game with ASAP and I like mass battle so I've got a lot of chaff id need to paint which takes forever on my own
Fund and promote nuclear energy religiously. It's pretty much the only thing that can actually alleviate and improve the state of humanity and I mean this with 100% sincerity.
You'll also have to invest into getting Tesla's wireless energy transportation technology up to deployment standards, because the main issue with increasing energy production is the infrastructure to carry it being unpopular.
Small Modular Reactors solve some of those problems by having many reactors spread out and more easily manageable (and also not capable of causing any kind of catastrophic meltdown) instead of building colossal reactors far away and then transporting the energy over hundreds of miles of failing infrastructure.
When you start measuring things on scale of humanity as a whole, billion is a chump change that can't make dfference (for reference UE annual budget is equivalent of $180 billion, US national debt is $31 trillion).
Globally, 1 billion is literally nothing.
However, consider that countries below have GDP below 20 billion, making your money enough to reshape them as you please:
Mali (19), frickload of resources
Burkina Faso (19), frickload of resources
Laos (17), hydroelectricity and farming galore
Brunei (15), a huge oil deposit that's responsible for 14.9 of those 15 billions of GDP
Nicaragua (14), agriculture, but really primitive
Congo (14), let's go Belgian again!
Malawi (12), same as above
Togo (8) frickload of resources for a tiny-ass country
Some crazier ideas:
Turning Mongolia (18) into a model democracy, just to spite Chinks and Ruskies
Solve Lake Chad problems, since the country's GDP is just 13 billion
Buying your way to power on Madagascar, 4th largest island on this planet, with GDP of just 14 billion
Just flat out take South Sudan (5 billion GDP and shrinking) for yourself. The oil will pay back any expenses in 4-5 years.
Invest in Bhutan's (2.5 billion GDP) infrastructure and essential services, so they can tell tourists to frick off and remain the most isolated country on the planet, preserving their way of living
Buy Central African Republic (2.5 billion GDP) and make mad profit on its resources, while also making Mads Brügger look like a joke with his exploits there.
1. Turn my patents into companies, which would turn the billion into billions... or more.
2. Pay off my student loans.
3. Build a family castle/self-sustaining compound.
4. Build an adjacent village for my friends.
5. Start a VC firm to finance startups in power generation, space, and cybernetics.
6. Create an insurance company to rebuild American inner cities by guaranteeing construction loans for properties in receivership that would be given in fee simple to American citizens with a tenancy duration requirement.
7. Create a grant program for working artists under 40.
8. Patent heirloom seed varieties to the maximum extent possible, and distribute seeds at cost every year to farmers.
9. A little cocaine never hurt.
10. Retain at least 40% of the principal, diversified to the maximum extent possible.
prostitutes... just.. so many prostitutes.
like they would take a ticket and wait in line every day.
classy prostitutes too. none of those cheap dime store bawds riddled with venereal disease.
Buy a lot of land and let people live there if they grew food or learned a trade It's not tax evasion officer, we are legally one household. Bring out the stack of marriage certificates.
And buy so many miniatures.
>And buy so many miniatures.
For a billion bucks you could make your own miniature-making company from a scratch and also start a smear campaign that would utterly destroy everyone else in the business
Dig a really deep hole and then pack it full of explosives.
1) Never work for anyone else again.
2) Fix my fricking house finally.
3) Give 10 or so million to my closest family and friends.
4) Put 1/5 of what's left into a retirement account.
5) Disappear from society, except to buy food, essentials, and hobby supplies.
6) Die a few decades later with a significant chunk still leftover, because regardless of my spending, I'm still more frugal than most people.
Before that happens, I'm splitting what's left between surviving loved ones.
I think you got the wrong board
I want to hear what 'creative' people have to say about it.
What would your 'character' do if they had a billion dollars? (or gold, or whatever)
Make the pope do push ups.
I'd buy a bunch of chimpanzees and teach them how to use guns.
>These troops are terrible! All they do is lie around all day, eat, and scratch their nuts!
>Yeah, but they work for bananas!
Newest Reality Television show.
Its like squid game crossed with american gladiators.
Unarmed Contestants have to navigate obstacles while chimps shoot at them.
we'll give them pistols to make it sporting. It will probably be easier to teach them how to reload a revolver anyway.
well have earmuffs for the chimps of course. can't have PETA on our backs.
It'll just be one chimp at a time, for the most part, to cut costs. Except during the bonus round, where they pick 2 chimps for twice the money or 3 chimps for three times the money.
well have to put up bullet proof barricades for the studio audience, of course. And well have hire people to scrub the poo off the set.
Dammit, your making a mistake, Jim! I worked at a zoo, i know how eager those chimps are to kill humans! You give them a gun and you don't know what will happen!
You comments, while valid, are inconsequential to the plot of this story. I am sure whatever happens, it will be hilarious fun for the whole family!
We can dress em up in little costumes. Well dress one up like Jhon Wayne and call him Pilgrim.
>scrub the poo off the set.
and the blood!
It'll bomb in the states, but be a hit in North Korea
Donate most of it. Pay off my mortgage. Buy a ton of stocks and live off the dividends. I’d keep working but cut back to two days a week just so it feels like I’m still doing something. Maybe volunteer a day or two as well.
Its illegal to purchase a harem in the united states.
so i guess ill just have to rent one.
people get so boring when they get older. Its always the same shit.
>New Car
>New House
>Invest
>Sports Cars
>Helicopters
>Private Jet
Its like they have no clue what they would do with the money, they've just given up on ever having that much so they say the most boring thing imaginable.
I will resurrect Truck-a-Saurus, and it will be glorious.
SCREW YOU you can't give me the permit, I'm moving this whole operation to ME-HEE-CO!
It’s what I do already with my money. I have nearly 100k in stocks. I like to live a quiet life with my wife and a few friends. Money just brings out what already exists. I might like to travel a bit more but I already do that.
>People actually know what they want
>Why they don't have outlandish desires?
So moronic or just outed yourself as an underage?
How much money can you actually imagine existing? Money that is real money, not stocks or debts or bonds. I can think of 200 million, sitting in a savings account, earning 3%, just like a trillionaires walking around money, not really much more than a checking account. I can imagine it 'existing', but I can't imagine possessing it, you know?
people always say stuff like, 10 million in drug money sitting in a duffel bag. A big factor isn't about the money, its how easy it comes to you, what you have to do to get it.
Burn myself with the money on a live stream labeled "For Charity"
awww, whos an edgy boy?
YOUR an edgy boy!
Thats right YOUR an edgy boy!
OMG so edgeeeey..
thats exactly what happens when you donate it though. It goes into some homosexuals pocket and hardly is used for the purpose of the charity. Thats why so many politicians have foundations. For that reason and easy money laundering.
Thanks
I want to make a halloween themed theme park that operates all year round. We'll circulate rumors that people go missing there and make a honey pot for serial killers. Our mascot will be a 500 hundred foot tall statue of the demon from Disney's Fantasia, with mild cosmetic modifications to avoid copyright issues.
we'd stay open through the night and mostly closed during the day time. We'll have a section for metal bands and older freakazoids to hang out, we'll book Korn and Slipknot cover bands and book 'avante garde' tasteless horror acts.
I like how you think, Anon.
After making sure I never work a day in life so I can focus on my passions.
>Start up a company to get any TTRPG I want translated into english.
>Go to random places in the world I think are interesting to inspire myself to make shit. Whenever I have an idea, go live it for a bit.
>Make a mech/animatronic monster that I can stomp around in.
Maybe buy a house an a couple of bottles of olive oil.
Start a second warhammer army, but with different basing from the first one.
Put half of it in a high interest savings account. Use the other half to build a my own block of houses for myself, friends, and family. Center of the neighborhood is a game room where, despite going to extreme lengths to ensure people will have as few distractions or responsibilities as possible, we will still be cancelling game night on a regular basis.
I'd buy a house, pay off my student loan, invest a bunch of it and use a part of those funds to create a game out of my oc donut steel setting.
A space elevator. I just want a space elevator.
Create a trust fund dedicated to flipping a buncha right wing talking heads to pan-african tankies.
Sleep for three weeks.
The same what I'm doing already, except with a billion in a bank account
Buy half a billion dollars worth of Raytheon stock.
Then build a bunker.
I'd bring back Duel Masters to the west.
Hire a merc squad and topple Pooh and make it look like Russians did it. Then watch the world burn.
The kingly way is to find an Osama bin Laden body double and make him make a proper splash.
>Buy GW
>Retcon AoS via time travel back into WHFB but introduce the realms into it (with the Old World as the central hub for it all) as some crazy side-effect of averting the End Times if not just for a longer time
>Revert the clock on 40K, go back to lore before 8th ED, revert the renamings, rework the Votann into the Squats people wanted them to be as well as giving some actual love to those parts of races and factions that needed it
>Throw out diversity hires and hire people that love the hobby and love the settings...as well loving myths, legends, folklore and history (not to mention sci-fi and being good at lorewriting, scuplting and painting)
I'd commission people to paint most my minis instead of doing it myself. I'd paint generals, and special units, and a couple myself, because I DO enjoy painting, but I'd prefer to get these guys ready to game with ASAP and I like mass battle so I've got a lot of chaff id need to paint which takes forever on my own
What problem could be eradicated or significantly improved by throwing a billion dollars at it? I would like to do something nice for humanity.
Fund and promote nuclear energy religiously. It's pretty much the only thing that can actually alleviate and improve the state of humanity and I mean this with 100% sincerity.
I believe you. If I ever win the billionaire lottery, that's what I'll do.
You'll also have to invest into getting Tesla's wireless energy transportation technology up to deployment standards, because the main issue with increasing energy production is the infrastructure to carry it being unpopular.
Small Modular Reactors solve some of those problems by having many reactors spread out and more easily manageable (and also not capable of causing any kind of catastrophic meltdown) instead of building colossal reactors far away and then transporting the energy over hundreds of miles of failing infrastructure.
When you start measuring things on scale of humanity as a whole, billion is a chump change that can't make dfference (for reference UE annual budget is equivalent of $180 billion, US national debt is $31 trillion).
Globally, 1 billion is literally nothing.
However, consider that countries below have GDP below 20 billion, making your money enough to reshape them as you please:
Mali (19), frickload of resources
Burkina Faso (19), frickload of resources
Laos (17), hydroelectricity and farming galore
Brunei (15), a huge oil deposit that's responsible for 14.9 of those 15 billions of GDP
Nicaragua (14), agriculture, but really primitive
Congo (14), let's go Belgian again!
Malawi (12), same as above
Togo (8) frickload of resources for a tiny-ass country
Some crazier ideas:
Turning Mongolia (18) into a model democracy, just to spite Chinks and Ruskies
Solve Lake Chad problems, since the country's GDP is just 13 billion
Buying your way to power on Madagascar, 4th largest island on this planet, with GDP of just 14 billion
Just flat out take South Sudan (5 billion GDP and shrinking) for yourself. The oil will pay back any expenses in 4-5 years.
Invest in Bhutan's (2.5 billion GDP) infrastructure and essential services, so they can tell tourists to frick off and remain the most isolated country on the planet, preserving their way of living
Buy Central African Republic (2.5 billion GDP) and make mad profit on its resources, while also making Mads Brügger look like a joke with his exploits there.
Also, forgot about them entirely:
Unfrick Haiti already and turn it into a tourist trap full of fake voodoo
>Haiti, a tiny county with a civil war and earthquake leveling everything down every decade has bigger economy than any other place on anon's list
500 million to Russia. 500 million to Hamas.
10% into savings
10% to family
Most of it to housing and property renovations for the family ranch
A little bit for a new car
I'd pay you $100 to frick off.
1. Turn my patents into companies, which would turn the billion into billions... or more.
2. Pay off my student loans.
3. Build a family castle/self-sustaining compound.
4. Build an adjacent village for my friends.
5. Start a VC firm to finance startups in power generation, space, and cybernetics.
6. Create an insurance company to rebuild American inner cities by guaranteeing construction loans for properties in receivership that would be given in fee simple to American citizens with a tenancy duration requirement.
7. Create a grant program for working artists under 40.
8. Patent heirloom seed varieties to the maximum extent possible, and distribute seeds at cost every year to farmers.
9. A little cocaine never hurt.
10. Retain at least 40% of the principal, diversified to the maximum extent possible.
Prep as rapidly as possible.
prostitutes... just.. so many prostitutes.
like they would take a ticket and wait in line every day.
classy prostitutes too. none of those cheap dime store bawds riddled with venereal disease.
Buy a lot of land and let people live there if they grew food or learned a trade It's not tax evasion officer, we are legally one household. Bring out the stack of marriage certificates.
And buy so many miniatures.
>And buy so many miniatures.
For a billion bucks you could make your own miniature-making company from a scratch and also start a smear campaign that would utterly destroy everyone else in the business