I have this dream of building my own little socialist company town. where like, instead of people scraping by, we all get universal healthcare and walkable, tree-lined streets.
I have had the exact same dream. I shall note your username in case any of my crazy ideas is ever profitable enough to start a company lol
I mean you could just disregard their username. It’s disregardable.
Take notes from Bioshock and don’t build it underwater… And skip the whole genetic modification thing too, ig.
Is a man not entitled to the sweat on his brow?
Or you could just move to Sweden and save yourself some money?
He’d probably wonder why I was in his house
What I do would be redacted here, but when I am done there would be no more billionaires.
It’s fine, this isn’t Reddit.
Just a heads-up: Everything on the fediverse is 100% public, forever.
Even though it feels like a super-secret conspiratory club sometimes.No, it’s not. Posts encouraging violence (or mentioning that they will kill X) is against the community guidelines…
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This is the way
Basically spend it all making militant resistance cells around the United States, enable them to operate independently via sourcing cnc machines, 3D printers, and hobbyist electronics, then provide financial incentives to targeting other billionaires’ assets or persons and/or hate groups and right wing think tanks.
This will continue until I’m arrested, run out of funds, or succeed.
…then I’d buy a sammich.
What kind of sammich?
Roast bitch ass billionaire.
But fr, probably a pastrami… Like a REALLY good pastrami.
Yes! “Make 2500 Luigis” is the best answer.
Huh? Luigi didn’t shoot that guy…
I’d put him back to sleep 💁♀️
Permanently?
It depends on which billionaire I’m supposedly waking up. Sounds like a shitty job though.
99M in a trust fund for me, my immediate family, extended family and friends. We would live relatively modest and give generously.
901M would go to a wide assortment of charities and causes:
- Fund my local foodbank for the next 50 years. Perhaps even a dynasty trust.
- Tackle youth unemployment and unmet community needs through investing in non-market solutions. E.g. build greenhouses with raised beds in urban brownfield and greenfield property, hire local people to grow resilient local foods and donate them throughout the community. Some local old age homes had some complaints about food quality and budget and they wanted things like fresh ripe tomatoes. I’d given them 3 seasons worth for free and pay for the equipment, labour, insurance out of pocket. Local youth could get high school credits, jobs not just gardening, but designing and improve closed ag systems, plumbing, deep winter greenhouse design and engineering, logistics, everything. Good experience and spending money. Maybe turn into a market career for some.
Build a few multiplexes as high quality PassiveHousePlus and operate as self funded charity built and operated using only local labour for womans & homeless shelters
I have a few friends in social services and I guarenfuckentee a shitload of orphans and foster kids and poor kids supervised by children services would get new toys, clothes, shoes, bedding, pillows, christmas presents from a bad ass santa, art supplies, comic books, tuition, books, enrichment activity fees and more. Some have this through foster parents and public systems. Way too many don’t.
I can’t help everyone and even this money won’t last long, but Imma go out swinging hard.
Probably fuck some kids to blend in
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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.
Same as I do every morning. A big mug of coffee and a big shit.
No amount of money would change that.
You could afford a bigger mug though.
And a warm Japanese toilet, with lights and music.
Yeah, but I’m not gonna go mug shopping until I’ve had my coffee
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You’d be fighting against other billionaires with established lobbying connections. I feel like you’d blow your billions and have nothing to show for it.
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I was thinking this too like “I’d be the lobbyist you would want to be lobbying”
Start strategically: just buy your way into overturning money in politics. Fire with fire baby!!!
With a billion dollars?! I’m crying sad tears and laughing at the same time.
2 billion dollars of PAC money was spent in the 2024 presidential election.
That’s a single year. One election cycle.
In order to overturn Citizen’s United, you would need at least a couple of Supreme Court justices, too. So you need enough money to elect uncorrupted politicians to Congress, so that they can approve judges who are also not corrupt.
I think people HUGELY underestimate how much money flows into politics now that PACs are legal. Why the fuck else would Trump suddenly get interested in politics at his late stage in life?
Maybe pay 500 musicians (generally my choice of music) x $20/hr x 3000 hours (about 1.5 person-years) (= $30 million) to write and record anything they want, but it has to be original and released into the public domain.
Exceptions could be made for derivatives of music already in the public domain.
Occasionally I might check on them for if they are composing, or composing and recording; and originality.
I might pay for novelty songs such as hard rock and heavy metal on horns; Suicide’s Ghost Rider but replace synths with tuba and harmonica; nonagenarian socialist to do Kid Rock’s Bawitdaba; Trump and Epstein look-a-likes do Nugent’s Little Miss Dangerous; etc.
I’d take my family and leave behind the shithole that is the United States. God, I hate it here because of 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.
Lots of folks would get their debt paid off.
Lots of folks would get fed real good.
Lots of folks would get seed money to make their thing or do their art/thing/whatever
Lots of folks would get to do some sick drugs.
Etc.
I’d just spend it all until I spread the wealth around.
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…
Sorry about your parents…
1010 mountain bikes, 1000 to give away; a canoe; a little propeller-driven Cessna airplane; and a good non-Telsa non-Chinese electric car without the electronic-digital-internet-AI-bullshit frills might bring more and better satisfaction.
