• Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    give all the money to a homeless charity and then kill myself, same feelings is if i woke up and realized id raped a bunch of kids…

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    3 days ago

    I would invest it. Every year, I would withdraw the profits, so that my net worth stayed approximately the same.

    I would throw an event in a different city each year.

    I would get that money (“earned” from doing nothing more than investing it) IN CASH.

    All the cash would be loaded up in a plane and dropped in a public place. It would be a spectacle. No advertising needed, word of mouth and social media would be more than enough.

    At each event, I would remind people that the money dropping from the sky is merely the crumbs from a single billionaire. Money that I did not earn. Money that was taken from the fruits of their labor and added to my stock portfolio.

    I would ask them to imagine how much more money billionaires are hoarding. I would then bid them a fond farewell until next year.

    Oh, and also, maybe a nice condo in southeast Asia. Thailand, maybe. Somewhere chill and fairly inexpensive. Not because I deserve a nicer place, but because fuckyouallI’mrichbitchstillnotatotaldickheadthough.

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      5 days ago

      technically if you woke up with $1 billion you can spend $1 and no longer be a billionaire, with $999 million

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    4 days ago

    Lots of perfectly valid answers here about decent humane things to do with the money and power, and I certainly hope I would do things like end homelessness or otherwise meaningfully improve the world.

    That said.

    I’d build a full-scale, 1:1 replica of the USS Enterprise, NCC 1701-D, from The Next Generation. I’d run it like the Biltmore; technically it would be a private residence, but I’d charge people to take tours. But any time I wanted, I could close it down for a few days and just hang out on the bridge or in main engineering and vibe out to the THRUM THRUM THRUM of the warp core.

    But solve homelessness first, of course.

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    5 days ago

    I have this dream of building my own little socialist company town. where like, instead of people scraping by, we all get universal healthcare and walkable, tree-lined streets.

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    3 days ago

    Give most of it away to free software foundation and put couple million to an low yield ethical index fund and start packing for some traveling.

  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    First thing? Probably panic. Second thing? Probably try to wake myself up. Third thing? Probably try to find some rational way that I just got isekai’ed as a billionaire.

    After it finally sank in, I’d probably consider lobbying for things before I lose touch with where I used to be. Right to repair, universal healthcare, UBI, etc…

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    5 days ago

    Basically spend it all making militant resistance cells around the United States, enable them to operate independently via sourcing cnc machines, 3D printers, and hobbyist electronics, then provide financial incentives to targeting other billionaires’ assets or persons and/or hate groups and right wing think tanks.

    This will continue until I’m arrested, run out of funds, or succeed.

    …then I’d buy a sammich.