Kobe, a kid working a summer construction job in Belgium whose crew found a buried stash of gold worth €9M or 10.5M USD in today’s money, is the inspiration for this question. I’m assuming in that event, half goes to the property owner and it’s 4 construction workers and a foreman splitting the other half. The rightful owner has 5 years to claim according to local law. What would you do while you wait that out?
Probably do research into how to best store that money so it’s safe and also gives me the best return.
Nothing really.
Until you actually have the money, you kinda can’t do anything different.Maybe if it was a sure thing you could take a loan out against it. But in this case it’s not a sure thing.
Ok good point. I’ll change the title back to what I had originally, (“would you do anything differently” instead of “what would you do”)?
All the bureaucracy and dangers involved in dealing with mundane wealth, the way the illusory wealth further chains the ego to this Pale Blue Dot? Nah, I pass. Five years from today I’ll be hopefully gone from this cosmos, so I’d likely leave a will and/or power of attorney to redirect that money to whomever wished to remain in this demiurgic theatre. I’m better with my True Mother who says “no wealth, no land, no silver, no gold, nothing satisfies me but your soul”.
As an American, the majority of that is going into a retirement fund. If I put in $700,000 now, I can retire at 60 and never worry about saving for retirement.
With the other $300,000, about half will go to paying off my student debt.
Which leaves me like $150,000 to put towards a house. 3-4 bed homes are in the 400-600 range in my neighborhood, so even if boyfriend sold his house, we’d still have to wait until I finish school to be able to buy one.
So I guess like, look for an accountant.
I would give up looking for a job, live frugal for a bit u until then
Love my job, happy with my situation, would just look forward to maybe retiring in five years.
Might make a wish list of what I’d do w the money
Call JG Wentworth
God damn. That was a good one. Well done
Nothing. Even if I was 100% sure about receiving it, $1M isn’t all that much.
Buy a house then, save what remains, keep going as I was.Think… Reduce… and get it the fuck out of the USD cause that shit gonna crash… but crypto NO… Definatly plan to relocate outside of the imperial core. Money no money that is still the plan. This country (USA) makes me sick in the head. It was never the work but the culture I despise.
No. I’m such a pessimist that I wouldn’t expect it to actually happen.
Just a million? Pay off remaining debts and put the rest toward buying land to retire on.
Nothing different. Its not a guarantee. I would spend the time hoping I end up getting it.
In my particular situation, I’d do nothing differently. Especially since it’s not guaranteed. Even if it were guaranteed, I’d just be relieved that soon what few financial concerns I have would be gone. That’s all that would change, I’d be a bit more relaxed.
I already have a similar enough situation. I’ve worked for several startup companies where part of my compensation is stock options that promise to make lots of money if. It’s not guaranteed so I’ll just continue normally until the time is up and I find out.
I mean, usually it is worthless, sometimes you feel cheated, but once I got enough to buy a new car
I’d continue to live my life by enjoying each day to the fullest, like I do now.
