Just a wonder on how you’d spend it. I’d probably buy up some land and build a nice village or town kind of similar to Poundbury. I’d probably sell houses at a fair price but only to people who send in a CV and seem to be upstanding people who actually want to work and be a part of a community, as well as giving them a mortgage Then I’d have a nice mansion and pretend to be a Lord where I can look over my wonderful tenants and maybe buy them Christmas gifts and send them birthday cards. Help them out if they need it.

Basically what some Lords did centuries ago but probably more kinder. Oh, and the place will be built with nice old timey architecture as well. Probably cobble streets because screw cars lmao. I just want to give people a nice life I guess as well as LARP as nobility

35 points

Buy the entire Supreme Court of the United States.

Dunno what I’d do with the other $6.415 billion though. Maybe start buying Congress members?

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Dunno what I’d do with the other $6.415 billion though. Maybe start buying Congress members?

Ok, but then what would you do with the remaining $6.414 billion once you’ve bought all of congress then?

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Come on, man. I’m running out of ideas here.

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  1. Pay off the remainder on my mortgage.
  2. Pay off my parents’ mortgage.
  3. Buy a new house that is large enough for my family to live comfortably in, without being ostentatious.
  4. Give my old home to my in-laws. They could use it.
  5. Set up a fund that produces enough interest for me and my family to live off of in perpetuity. $4 million in an account that produces 5.5% interest annually would be $220,000 (pre-tax) every year, which is plenty for our needs.
  6. Set up a foundation to help the poor, fund environmental projects, support social justice causes, and so on with all of the rest.

I do not need $6 billion. No one does. I don’t want it. It would ruin me. The absolute best thing I could do with it is dedicate the overwhelming majority of it to causes I believe in, rather than hoarding it or buying a bunch of stupid shit.

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I agree with all of this. Except I would probably buy all the stupid shit I want because I have no concept of how all the stupid shit I want could amount to more than a rounding error.

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I can easily afford all the stupid shit I’d actually want on $220K/year earnings from interest.

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I’ll tell you what I’d do, man. two chicks at the same time. And I think if I had 5 billion pounds I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.

Truthfully though I’d hook my family up bigtime for probably the next few hundred years and start hiring experts on how to deal with that kind of basically at least to me infinite money.

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Hook your family up… With two chicks each???

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Sounds reasonable. Now about this “family” designation . . .

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I don’t know… that would almost be enough to buy property on the outskirts of London

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Go back to sleep.

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This. Well really it would be sleep more, spend more time with my kid, work out more, but more importantly, start playing WoW again lmao. Probably also move to somewhere I like more, our house is fine and all but I’d GTFO of the west and go live somewhere chill.

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