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Powerball is up to 1.9 billion now. What would you do with it?
- Thread starter OmegaSupreme
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Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
Establish a Great House, start building a dynasty, and anoint myself the new Emperor of Mankind.
0neAnd0nly
Member
Continue to help my mom with finances during her cancer treatment.
Feel secure financially enough to be able to have another child with my wonderful wife.
Buy every person in here who commented on my thread about my moms cancer a year of Gold.
Buy a nice house, nothing too crazy.
Help my father, who is a cancer survivor, but his house is falling apart find a new home.
Massive donations to my church and a couple non profits I support for children and animals. Random GoFundMe donations.
The rest would be put into savings for my childrens future to hopefully be the best it can be.
Feel secure financially enough to be able to have another child with my wonderful wife.
Buy every person in here who commented on my thread about my moms cancer a year of Gold.
Buy a nice house, nothing too crazy.
Help my father, who is a cancer survivor, but his house is falling apart find a new home.
Massive donations to my church and a couple non profits I support for children and animals. Random GoFundMe donations.
The rest would be put into savings for my childrens future to hopefully be the best it can be.
Omega Supreme Holopsicon
Member
With dividend index stocks you'd get tens of millions a year in dividends + compounding growth from increased stock valuation and dividend reinvestment. Essentially expect about 11% annual growth rate of your investments, while still being able to use tens of millions a year in dividends without spending a dime of the principal.
Even if one claims anonymously a few people would know one has that sum, including the lawyers involved in claiming it anonymously. I suggest a strong security detail as one of if not the first move after claiming.
As for after that I'd want to make a videogame making company and a biotech company. Want to make cool indie projects, and also dwarf long lived versions of cats and dogs. Would also be cool to try and engineer some of the various modifications seen in ageless animals into short lived ones to see which ones are the best. Ideally one would be able to create immortal pets that do not suffer from aging, and similar technology could later be applied to humans.
Trogdor1123
Member
It’s a fair concern but I have family with a wide variety skills. A nurse, a doctor, several trades. We would fair ok in the apocalypse i think lol
The everyday bit would be an issue i agree but with that much money you would be able to afford a helicopter for medical reasons. if you had that much land you could probabl defend your land easily too.
I totally agree with it being a concern though. Just depends on your risk tolerance I guess
kapshin
Member
That's going to take more than a billion
DetectiveBananas
Member
Outside of giving some money to family and certain charities….
1) Start some scholarships for up and coming minds.
2) Start an independent movie studio and green light a few movies I’ve been wanting to see.
3) Give the rest to “Star Citizen” Devs, cause maybe it will be just enough to get a full release this decade!
1) Start some scholarships for up and coming minds.
2) Start an independent movie studio and green light a few movies I’ve been wanting to see.
3) Give the rest to “Star Citizen” Devs, cause maybe it will be just enough to get a full release this decade!
wvnative
Member
natjjohn
Member
One, they aren’t for sale, and two, you still couldn’t afford it
Unknown Soldier
Member
I think it would be fun to buy Resetera for the sole purpose of shutting it down
Elginer
Member
Pay off my debt, build a house with a mother in law one bedroom apartment behind it for my Dad who’s retired and healing from cancer surgery. Paint my car. Get veneers and open a small comic book/sci-fi/ horror indie shop to have something to do for fun and keep myself busy.
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clem84
Gold Member
I would keep an amount of money that would allow me to live very comfortably and be able to travel anywhere and start any hobby I want. In the range of 8-10 millions would probably be enough for that.
The rest would be targeted to where it would do the most good, hospitals, homeless shelters, etc... Maybe also to help specific people who are in a tough spot from time to time.
edit: Oh... Maybe I would open an arcade. lol
The rest would be targeted to where it would do the most good, hospitals, homeless shelters, etc... Maybe also to help specific people who are in a tough spot from time to time.
edit: Oh... Maybe I would open an arcade. lol
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chixdiggit
Member
I would find it interesting to fund a video game or movie.
Represent.
Represent(ative) of bad opinions
Invest.
Hookers. 3somes. Lots of pussy.
Travel.
Have my dream AAA 20fps game funded and made.
Hookers. 3somes. Lots of pussy.
Travel.
Have my dream AAA 20fps game funded and made.
I don't need an island, but I'd love to buy an aircraft carrier and replicate a nice beach on the flight deck 
nationalinterest.org
Wanna Buy an Aircraft Carrier? Brazil Has One For Sale Right Now.
The Brazilian navy has begun auctioning off its only aircraft carrier. The attempted sale of Sao Paulo leaves the Brazilian fleet with just one aviation vessel, the helicopter carrier Atlantico. And it effectively strands the navy’s small fleet of carrier-compatible Skyhawk fighters
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Imagine a reality show based on Brewsters Millions (the premise of which, for you younger heathens who might have missed out on this little gem, is you have to spend 30 million in 30 days but at the end have NOTHING left to show for it and can't tell anyone what you are doing).
Probably Rebuild my parents home. Then pay all of my families debts. Put money down for all of the relatives kids colleges in the future. Give my mom a bunch of money to spend on her family overseas. Donate money to the small Christian school I went to. Then for the most part vacation in Asia for a couple of years before I slowly make the next squareenix/capcom/konami company. Oh yeah, forgot I'd give my family all some money so that they can stop working if they want to.
Oh yeah, I'd also create an anime company that paid decent salaries and also make a new manga/comic publishing company.
Oh yeah, I'd also create an anime company that paid decent salaries and also make a new manga/comic publishing company.
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
I'm going to fix the a/c in my car.
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Fuck that it's $1.9 billion!
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Fuck that it's $1.9 billion!
The Pleasure
Member
Erect a giant alligator giving people the middle finger with a sign that says WELCOME TO FLORIDA.
Morrie’s wig shop
Member
I’d buy a bunch of mansions down in Westport on disease covered Long Island sound and let the homeless live in them.
TaylorSwiftFan
Member
How much is left after tax? $500M?
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Pay for all 4 of my siblings' houses and cars and treat them all to vacations of their choosings. Plus 10 million each. And do the same for my best friends.
Throw a small birthday party for when I turn 50 in 2024. But it'll have a magician, arcade and Lazer tag! And ALL of my favorite foods and spirits!
And I'd settle down in my own house. Nothing grand. A $500k house with security in a nice neighborhood in Atlanta... And a second house back home in Mississippi.
Buy my dad a nice house... And a chauffeur to drive him wherever he wants.
Get my mom a new car... Her house is already nice and paid for.
Throw a small birthday party for when I turn 50 in 2024. But it'll have a magician, arcade and Lazer tag! And ALL of my favorite foods and spirits!
And I'd settle down in my own house. Nothing grand. A $500k house with security in a nice neighborhood in Atlanta... And a second house back home in Mississippi.
Buy my dad a nice house... And a chauffeur to drive him wherever he wants.
Get my mom a new car... Her house is already nice and paid for.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Almost a billion... Maybe a little over a billion.
Omega Supreme Holopsicon
Member
A nice big stack of these
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Platinumstorm
Member
I would buy a home in the Snowmass area, probably lobby hard for climate action and expansion of preserved lands in the US.
NecrosaroIII
Ask me about my terrible takes on Star Trek characters
You should buy the houses and cars in your name and let your siblings live there. That way they don't have to pay taxes in them
HoodWinked
Member
the interest rates are really ballooning the winnings. $1.9 billion is apparently the highest ever.
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Alcibiades
Member
OK I caved and got 8 tickets for $3 each. I didn't realize the $2 tickets were enough for the jackpot - should have bought 12 regular tickets but oh well. I even started to imagine what I would do with the money, which I never do because I think lottos are stupid, tax on the poor, etc... wow am I a drone with no lack of self control or what? This isn't me!
I've played a handful of times previously when prizes got really big and was encouraged by my mom, including a couple of times when it was a work group pooling purchases.* But yeah they should ban lottos or implement some sort of cap on how many tickets can be bought or something.
*I remember thinking I sorta had to get involved in the work group pool cause like what if they won and I didn't buy on the principle of the matter... I'd be the only dumbass showing up still working.
I've played a handful of times previously when prizes got really big and was encouraged by my mom, including a couple of times when it was a work group pooling purchases.* But yeah they should ban lottos or implement some sort of cap on how many tickets can be bought or something.
*I remember thinking I sorta had to get involved in the work group pool cause like what if they won and I didn't buy on the principle of the matter... I'd be the only dumbass showing up still working.
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TaylorSwiftFan
Member
So I looked it up and apparently, you pay 37% to the IRS and depending on the state, up to a further 10.5%.
Queso de Grande
Member
Considering the amount of inflation lately, I would fill up my cars and buy groceries for a week.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
I would eat a lot of hotdogs. I get excited just thinking of all the hot dog water we will accumulate.
GladiusFrog
Member
I'd carefully give it all away to needy families and charity, every last dime.
Would be cool to help end some peoples suffering.
Would be cool to help end some peoples suffering.
Badlucktroll
Member
Holy shit!!!! I WON
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Omega Supreme Holopsicon
Member
You don't have to go to risky crypto. Also we don't know how crypto laws will change once the central bank digital currencies are launched. If you put half a billion into bitcoin there's no telling how that would affect the market if you tried to sell in mass. Index stocks like VOO sp500 index essentially double in value about every 7 years. That means in 7 years you've over a billion, and in 14 years you've over 2 billions. And these are diversified investments. OF course past performance is not predictor of future performance, and the global economy could collapse, but great investor Buffet recommends sp500 index iirc.