Buy up every media, news, and politician I could find and put the DSA in charge of them.
Buy and build as many homeless shelters and communal food kitchens I can.
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First thing? Probably panic. Second thing? Probably try to wake myself up. Third thing? Probably try to find some rational way that I just got isekai’ed as a billionaire.
After it finally sank in, I’d probably consider lobbying for things before I lose touch with where I used to be. Right to repair, universal healthcare, UBI, etc…
American billionaire (1000 millions) or European billionaire (1 million millions)?
I didn’t realize there was a difference. What do Europeans call 1,000,000,000?
Well firstly there’s no europe-wide standard. There’s long scale and short scale, the US and many other countries use short scale (billion is 1000 millions). It usually goes by language, but there are exceptions: Spanish and Mexican Spanish are both long scale while USAn Spanish is short scale.
Short scale goes: million, billion, trillion
Long scale goes: million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard… etc.
Then in my language it goes: million, milliard, trillion, quadrillion. We use short scale but replace billion with milliard (miljard actually for the local spelling)
There are also other systems. Once you get to 10^5, India has names for every second power of ten rather than every third power. lakh is 1,00,000, crore is 1,00,00,000, etc. It’s funny writing it out with double zeroes instead of triple lol
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That’s it? If you had a billion dollars, you’d do two chicks at the same time?
There making a reference to Office Space.
I know. What I wrote was Pete’s follow up.
Probably fuck some kids to blend in
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I’d take my family and leave behind the shithole that is the United States. God, I hate it here and having to live with Republicans.
Unfortunately, there are assholes everywhere.
Maybe, but at least other countries prosecute their rich and powerful when said rich and powerful person rapes kids/steals classified documents. Also, every other developed country is able to ensure their government is funded while giving every person health insurance.
They’re rapidly defunding the social safety nets and privacy protection in the countries you mean.
Pay my taxes and not rape children.
Yeah, yah, that’s what they ALL say.
A low bar to be sure,but it could be worse.
It’s apparently one a lot of billionaires struggle with too.
This should be the bare minimum response from everyone. If you can’t even clear this bar…you should not be allowed to participate.
Whoa, look at this communist, socialist person here! I bet they hate fascists too!
Ah, I see you are not an American billionaire.
Look into my pants to see if my d shrunk even more.
I’d quit my job, buy a small house for my partner and I and give enough to my family that they wouldn’t have to worry about money again.
With the rest, I’d set up a trust that donates 1% per year in microgrants to free software maintainers who apply to it. Similar to NLnet, but with no strings attached beyond continuing to maintain the project.
Then, with all my free time, I’d also work on free software.
First thing?
Probably buy my wife something nice.
Next, I would love to upgrade and spoil the homeless shelter behind my work. I always fantasize about being able to afford food, socks and blankets to distribute.
First selfish thing? Build a new computer.
Call a fiduciary firm in LA and have them start The Sovereign Fund for Humanity’s Poor, and promptly deposit all but $10,000,000 into that. I would hire 5 people to run it. Three fiduciary’s and two data analysts. The fiduciary’s must be from different financial centers, the data analysts must be from Oxfam. The purpose of the fund will be to use the ROI to create trusts for the poorest people in the world first. I’d basically be privatizing UBI in about 500 years.
Turn my country the fuck around so that public servants represent people and decisions are made to improve the lives of people.
Lots of perfectly valid answers here about decent humane things to do with the money and power, and I certainly hope I would do things like end homelessness or otherwise meaningfully improve the world.
That said.
I’d build a full-scale, 1:1 replica of the USS Enterprise, NCC 1701-D, from The Next Generation. I’d run it like the Biltmore; technically it would be a private residence, but I’d charge people to take tours. But any time I wanted, I could close it down for a few days and just hang out on the bridge or in main engineering and vibe out to the THRUM THRUM THRUM of the warp core.
But solve homelessness first, of course.
