July 31, 2007

• If you won $100 million (tax free), how would you spend it?

  Wow. So much? With 10 million it’d be tough, but with 100? That’s easy. I’d use it to try and take over the world!

  Well not all of it. 10 million goes straight to my family. 5 of that to my immediate family to do with as they please. 3 into a special investment account from which anyone in my extended family and their close friends can draw should they have a need and 2 million directly to them to do with as they please. 

  And I’d give 5 million to my friends. I’d find some sneaky way to give it to them so that they can’t refuse it. That should at least ensure that my friends can pay off their debts if need be.

  And I’d keep 5 million in reserve. This I would use again to help friends and family (or me) but only if they get into situations the other aforementioned wealth can’t really help. Or else to pay for any cool special projects any of them come up with that they just need capital in order to implement. Of course this 5 million stays perpetually invested when not being used so that it can grow and grow should nothing else come up.

  As for the rest? I’d pay off all my debts and buy a cheap house in the ghetto somewhere and spend whatever money needed to hide my identity and make myself hard to trace. And I’d use it to buy random stuff I’ve always wanted none of which I think costs more than a thousand. I mean like yeah I’d own an i-phone and playstation 3 too. A 4 black lotuses (magic).  Even putting all that together it won’t come to be over a million so the rest of the million just gets invested and becomes my ‘live off of’ money.

  4 million I’d give away to random strangers. That’s right.  I’d travel the world, walking up to people and saying “Here. Have $100,000.”  That’s it. No strings attached. I’d even do it in a way that is anonymous so that nobody knows it’s me doing it.

  So that leaves 75 million dollars to try and launch some kind of world changing endeavor to bend the world to my will. I don’t know what or how, but the world as it is needs some serious changing and I would spend virtually all of my time from that point on trying to change it.  No injustice would be too small to make just, no wrong too trivia to right. I’d strive to undo them all.  Until there is a world of universal peace and perfect happiness, I would forever be fighting. Of course $75 million wouldn’t even come close to solving even the most trivial of world problems but it could certain create a strong basis for an organization that could attract talented intelligent people who could then fight using their own talents and abilities to change the world. The money itself could then grow too. Both because of invested money and other donations we solicit and whatever clever ways the clever people the organization recruits finds to increase the wealth of the organization.  The only rule would be that to work for this organization you have to want to take over the world and make it a better place. If your ambitions are any less than that go join some other group.

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  An addendum to the above post.

  On second thought I wouldn’t pay off my debts. I mean really why would should I bother? It’s not like I’m going to be worrying about my credit rating or anything. My return on investment on that money that would have gone to pay off my debts would probably be higher than the interest rate I am paying on my debts. Maybe I’d pay off the very highest interest ones but for the most part I’d keep on making the monthly payments. It’s silly to pay off ones debts just so one feels ‘debt free’.
     

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