You get to keep only enough to maintain a very modest lifestyle in a low-cost-of-living area, the rest of it has to go towards improving the world in some way.
Edit: Given the previous rules that you must maintain a very modest lifestyle in a low-cost-of-living area, would you rather choose to opt out and not have the money at all?
Develop High yield and sophisticated lab controlled food production facilities that could run all year without fear of climate instability to rev the throttle on sustainable long term food production.
Bribe politicians to add a constitutional amendment for a mandatory 30% minimum tax to gross income over $1M and assets/holdings over $1B.
I truly don’t believe $5b is anywhere close to being enough to do that.
The requirement to pass is only a 2/3 majority. $5b might be enough.
3/4 state legislatures, good luck.
You could just skip the constitution and do a coup and seize power, its already out the window anyways.
Yeah, one thing the Trump admin has taught me is that our constitution actually doesn’t mean shit. Not to us as American citizens and not to the government that swore to uphold it. We’ve all just been pretending to care about it until someone with a god complex decided to challenge us.
Nuke mar a lago from space
I set up a for profit corporation whose stated goal is to make the world a better play. I donate all the money to that corporation.
As the sole owner, I now have 5 billion dollars so I change the mission to something else because I don’t have time to deal with the poors who did work as hard as me to become this successful.
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One million dollars per assassin until one of them eventually gets through to Trump, then Vance, than Musk, Than the Republican Supreme Court. After that, a 50,000 dollar bounty on any sitting member of Trump’s Cabinet and any sitting member of the GOP.
Even if it takes every penny to finish that list and I end up right back where I started. I’ll still consider it money well spent.
Anything less than a full Nuremberg level cleanse of nazi’s in America is just not going to be sufficient.
Kill them all.
And I’m not being even the least bit facetious.
Hire a LOT of hitmen
Take power everywhere i could and force permanent wealth equality.
Then redistribute the rest.
I would donate the vast majority to education in the rest of homelessness
You get to keep enough to maintain a very modest lifestyle in a low-cost-of-living area
Don’t know why I must move to a cheap area… no, I would probably decide to stay here at least for half of each year. My lifestyle remains modest as well, but I would actually rebuild some parts of this old house.
the rest of it has to go towards improving the world in some way.
There’s only a small part of the world that I could actually influence so far in my life.
With the billions, I would try to expand this radius of course, but only slowly, only reluctantly, trying to stay wise. I would focus at first on the ones that are closer to me, and mitigate their needs. You did not require me to improve the whole world after all.
Yeah, cheap area will likely be a not-so-desirable place, unless you’re the type who likes to live in the boonies.
Thats the point.
The money isn’t for you, and you don’t get any of the benefits of having it. The only reason I allowed for a stipen for a modest living in a cheap area is because I knew that half the comments would be “First I buy land build houses for me and all my friends and family, buy everyone cars, and fund all their colleges, then with the hundred million left over, I’ll help some homeless people” OR if I would have said you get no money at all, everyone would have said they wouldn’t have time to do anything good because they still had to work full time and half to afford their bills. So, the compromise is you get a modest lifestyle in an undesirable area fully funded, or no money at all and you can continue to work full time and a half to afford your basic ass lifestyle while not helping anyone.
Edit: Given the previous rules that you must maintain a very modest lifestyle in a low-cost-of-living area,
It said that I get money for such a lifestyle.
But now you add that I must actually move before I even get that little money.
You definitely want to clarify your “Question”.
would you rather choose to opt out and not have the money at all?
No, I would still play that game, but maybe my way of spending would concentrate even more on those where I expect something back.
you can continue to work full time and a half
I don’t have that.
your basic ass lifestyle while not helping anyone.
I don’t have that either.
Assassins
I like where your mind is at, truly the best decision.
Use it to hire most of the best minds to be found with the sole purpose of creating an expansive infrastructure to provide regular people the means to organize as one.
The undertaking would be staggering. Reviewing all the known history of man, considering all the languages, cultures, failures and successes.
Researching and combining all known technologies.
All to set the groundwork for a global union of human kind to be able to collectively counteract the disease that is the upper most classes.
After much daydreaming on the subject. I think this is the way of long term existential survival for the human race.
TL;DR: Basically, the Star Trek federation.
I would develop some city neighborhoods and set up some community land trusts to run them.
Use every last dollar to fund a revolution.
Found a for-profit (to circumnavigate laws about non-profit having to be apolitical) with the goal of lifting people in poverty from poverty by providing jobs, education and zero interest loans
I’d be hesitant to use the money to do anything political in my country. Have watched Musk throw around money during the last presidential election in the states and it’s not a good look.
So that leaves some kind of charity. Charities benefit from economies of scale so it would be better to give more money to a single charity than to split it up amongst many charities. Probably would have to start my own since I don’t trust many of the existing ones (too much money going on executive pay). Pretty sure dysentery is the biggest killer worldwide so would put half into that, then maybe half into libraries in my country. Libraries are a bit of a selfish choice but they have a lot of social utility beyond just having books (by my own logic I should be putting it all into dysentery too).
