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Make a list of all the sites in America that are toxic and buy the land, clean em and grow some Forrests. Buy some homes from people
In towns that went bankrupt, give em enough to move to a place they can find work and do the same there. Rinse repeat.
 
"I spent most of the money on booze, broads, and boats. The rest of it I wasted." Elmore Leonard (or one of his characters)
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I'd seek a lighter work schedule.
You could probably cut back to..mmm...one day a year.
 
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I agree with you. I’m not jelous, but no human being is helped by this amount of wealth. IMO, it is toxic to every human quality.
I think human beings are at their best when they are under a certain amount of duress.
 
Let my Mom live her remaining years in comfort and paying her trips to the old country and to stay with me here and my sis in the US.

Set up my own business, a think tank/training centre on contemporary international relations. Maybe training young entrepreneurs with good ideas.

Well I would still keep my current iPhone until it completely dies, same with my Mac.

Get a decent new car.

Of course help a select circle of friends and family besides my Mom but a pretty small circle.

More friends than family actually.
 
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Rebuild the two schools where I've worked for the last 2+ decades for starters. Then I'd start criss-crossing the country and find other neglected schools, and work on them. Education first.

As mentioned earlier, great post.

While such an income would allow for personal financial security (and some small indulgences, such as a small - relatively speaking - Georgian town house - I spent the first three years of my life in such a place - my parents rented a flat at the top floor of a city centre Georgian house and it imprinted on me that way balloons are said to imprint on baby ducks deprived of their parents), and ensuring the security of my family, plus travel, there are other things I would wish to fund and finance.

This - education, especially facilitating educational opportunities for girls - would be one of my major concerns and priorities, as well, should such fortune come my way.

I've worked in some of the most troubled spots on the planet and have seen, first hand, what some of these cultures and societies are like.

Therefore, I would seek to find ways to educate girls and women, and empower women and support children in such environments, through the provision of education, and health programmes, and support of programmes which encourage the economic independence of women, and which support (through financing) access to safe, affordable and reliable birth control.
 
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"I spent most of the money on booze, broads, and boats. The rest of it I wasted." Elmore Leonard (or one of his characters)
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You could probably cut back to..mmm...one day a year.

There's no way I would do that. Maybe four days a week, four or five hours a day.
 
There's no way I would do that. Maybe four days a week, four or five hours a day.
You know, having that much money, managing it appropriately would be a full time job. It gets a lot more complicated than just squirreling it away in your savings account.
 
Wow. 332 mllion a day more or less.

I'd buy the best US Congress I could get after saving up my pay for a couple weeks.

There would be more than one dude in there with an advanced degree in physics and one in mathematics, unlike our present dismal situation. That's just for openers. I'd teach climate science and biology to the ones flunked it in grade school.

Am I politicizing the thread? :D I'll be back when y'all move this to PRSI...
 
You'd get board pretty quick..

Being the richest, i know i would have limits.. After you bought every single thing you can imagine *use, (excludes just because you have money to throw around for no reason other than to announce you are rich), you'd get board..

I can tell you, I would not get bored, because it wouldn't be about filling a 20K sq/ft house with "stuff", it would be about being able to experience anything and everything. I had a pretty decent sudden cash infusion after I sold my #2 company, and we had an absolute blast without loading up on *swag* :D
 
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First of all...a million every 4 minutes and 20 seconds is $121.3 billion per year. Is that true...most sources don't go that high. That type of money is patently absurd. That would mean that he makes as much as 67,000 average people make in their lifetimes combined. That cannot be defended. Being successful is one thing...but no one is THAT valuable.

But anyway...I don't know what I would do with that much money. I would never want that much money. Give me a couple thousand dollars a day and I would be beyond happy the rest of my life. But, if I did have it, I'd take care of all my family, put my kid through the best schools, donate a massive crapton to charity and other causes, and simply try to do positive things and help people. I certainly wouldn't be trying to pay my employees the bare minimum possible and subjecting them to terrible work conditions.

There's no way I would do that. Maybe four days a week, four or five hours a day.

What, work? You'd still want to work four days a week? You must really love your job. I mean, I really love my job. It's what I do as my hobby sometimes when I'm not working. But, if I wouldn't need to do it to pay the bills, I wouldn't be working any more. Way too many other ways to spend my dys.
 
What, work? You'd still want to work four days a week? You must really love your job

Well, truth be told I DO love my job. But more than that, I think, is that I love having a job. I like having something out there that needs me, a schedule, a routine, a purpose in this world beyond my family. If I take more than a few consecutive days off I start itching to go back.

Mind you, I’m not a workaholic - I average less than 45 hours a week.
 
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What, work? You'd still want to work four days a week? You must really love your job. I mean, I really love my job. It's what I do as my hobby sometimes when I'm not working. But, if I wouldn't need to do it to pay the bills, I wouldn't be working any more. Way too many other ways to spend my dys.

Two thoughts occur, here: One is whether you enjoy doing something, and derive your (professional) identity from that.

The other is whether you can afford not to have to work, - to what degree - if any - what you are paid reflects the importance of what you are doing, and how that balance of work, identity and income all have an effect on one another.

Besides, people treat monies form different sources differently, and whether such windfalls come from something you have done, or achieved yourself, - and, if so, how - or were inherited, or that you simply got lucky in the state lottery.

I remember when I was a teacher, I spent my (meagre enough) salary and fellowship monies on certain things, but lump sums that came from grading term or exam papers (they came from a different budget) were spent differently - because I saw that as "discretionary" money, money to spend on stuff I wanted, rather than stuff I needed.
 
Well, truth be told I DO love my job. But more than that, I think, is that I love having a job. I like having something out there that needs me, a schedule, a routine, a purpose in this world beyond my family. If I take more than a few consecutive days off I start itching to go back.

Mind you, I’m not a workaholic - I average less than 45 hours a week.

I get it. Some people do need to have something to go to. I just have way too much other stuff that I want to do, hobbies and whatnot. I also work 60-75 (or more) hours a week...so, massive amounts of free time to pursue other things in life sounds great!
 
I imagine I'd spent a lot on booze, drugs and women. The rest I'd probably waste...

Actually, family, charity (local charities, then national, then global), travel. I think I'd spend a lot of my time back in further education, there's a lot of stuff I wish I knew more about.
 
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