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71869 No. 71869
So what do you do with $100,000,000? At that point, what does it matter whether you get 100 mil or 200? What do you even spend that on? It just seems supremely greedy to want more money after that level of wealth. No?
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>> No. 71871
I was given 50,000 when my mother died of cancer. Nothing changed much and i wish I never got it because its about to run out and the idea of going back to living oaycheck to paycheck makes me suicidal.
>> No. 71873
>>71869

I would invest it in as wide a variety of investments as possible aiming for roughly 8% return year over year, half of which I would reinvest and half of which I would blow mostly on the best things in life: fast cars, hard drugs, and loose women.
>> No. 71874
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I don't think that wanting more money would be greedy per se. When it comes to money, barring any external factors, more is better, and I don't think that anyone could be faulted for wanting more, no matter how much they have. So long as no one else is being hurt by it, I see no ballza reason for not trying to accumulate more for yourself.

Of course, we don't live in a vacuum, and our actions have consequences. If taking another $100,000,000 would result in someone who has nothing being denied, say, $100,000, then the right thing to do would probably be to let the other person have some money; you likely wouldn't notice much difference, but for them, it would make all the difference in the world.

The thing is, money does strange things to people. Those who have it see the world differently than those who do not; if left unchecked it can divide people, just like you see in America's class structure today. Not only that, but people will come crawling out of the woodwork to get a chance at taking some of that money for themselves. I've read stories of lottery winners who said that hitting the jackpot was the worst thing that ever happened to them. People who didn't even know them were sending them mail begging for money for this operation or that new house; family members badgered them to relieve their debts; friends began expecting extravagant dinners and luxury trips on their dime. Many receive threats and pressure from people and entities that they are associated with. In the end, a lot of them go bankrupt in both their finances and relationships. Ultimately, if your not prepared, that much money could spell disaster, rather it is $100,000,000, $200,000,000, or even more.

I suppose my point here is that if you want a sizable sum of money, that's perfectly okay, but you need to be prepared unless it corrupts and consumes you. What is the difference between $100,000,000 and $200,000,000? Is it greedy to want more? I think the answer is contingent upon who you are and how you will allow that money to shape you as a person.
>> No. 71876
>What is the difference between $100,000,000 and $200,000,000? Is it greedy to want more?
I think it is. Honestly, I think that it's basically the definition of greed: wanting more even though you don't use the enormous amount that you already have. Wanting a bigger paycheck so you don't worry about losing your home is not something I'd call greed, but wanting more money just to make your mon-e-peen bigger is. I think one huge determining factor is if the money has use and/or purpose other than "get de Monet". Basically: if you have 100 mil, why do you want 200 mil?
I do agree that money probably corrupts in different ways and I bet the lotto has some sad stories, but I was thinking more of multi-million dollar salary people. Why bother with the numbers at all? If you already have 500 mil, why bother getting paid? You're clearly not doing for money at that point.

Saw a video of that ram. He broke that guy's bike. I knew a farmer who said that when they went into the sheep pen, they would just whang the rams in the head with a shovel every time because the dumb bastards wouldn't learn.
>> No. 71885
>>71874
>>71876
Greed is always a subjective concept, ultimately, many people from around the world would call the American middle class greedy for wanting a house bigger than they need. We're not programmed to think that we ever have enough, and are always coming up with excuses that they don't have enough.

You get your 100k and you're happy with that for a while, but what about your kid's college? You want them to go deep into debt to pay for that? What about after they get out? You have all this money sitting around, why don't you buy a kickass TV or car? All of a sudden what you thought of as freedom starts to look more confining. We're limited by wealth, but we're programmed to think that those limits are bad. If you are sitting in cage and feel you don't have enough room, what do you think it's easier? Shrinking yourself (given the possibility of such a thing) or trying to beg for a bigger cage from whatever powers that control it?

Some rich people do horde money in excess, but they'll usually to claim it's to give their family around them security. But you don't just want you and your family to live, with your money you want to buy a bigger house... which comes with a higher comparative cost of ownership.

There's a reason why Mitt Romney made more money than Scrooge McDuck, and rather than calling it a life and sitting back, he runs for fucking office and then eventually President. We're programmed to never be satisfied, and many religions out there at least partially address this issue because it's so innate and timeless.

Naturally you don't want to call someone greedy for simply wanting a place to live and food to eat and some measure of luxury and comfort, but what counts as "reasonable" for all of these things is not an objective measure, which is why it's likely easy for Mitt Romney to convince himself he's not greedy. Look how much money he gives to charity!
>> No. 71891
>When it comes to money, barring any external factors, more is better, and I don't think that anyone could be faulted for wanting more
It comes down to this: if more is not better, but you still grasp for more, then you're a greedy little piggy. You then need to reassess your priorities. Just because we're programmed to want more doesn't make it notgreed. Nezz pah? I don't even like french.

>Some rich people do horde money in excess, but they'll usually to claim it's to give their family around them security
Such claims are clearly bullshit, though. 10 mil will secure an entire family, more than that and security is not a factor (there may be others, but that ain't one). I'm not saying that there is a line where you must stop or you will be greedy. Some people want millions to help others, so for them, more is better no matter what. But the guy buying a diamond-encrusted laptop just because it has diamonds should just buy a normal laptop. That's just wasting money to try to make others think you're rich. But if you have that kind of money, then they probably think it already. Only foolin yourself.
>There's a reason why Mitt Romney made more money than Scrooge McDuck, and rather than calling it a life and sitting back, he runs for fucking office and then eventually President.
Just because Rombot thinks he isn't greedy does not mean he's not greedy. The guy is so greedy. And out of touch with the way the world works.

>You get your 100k and you're happy with that for a while
"Why not buy a bigass tv?" is the wrong question. The question should be "Why buy a bigass tv?" Upgrading from a tiny tv to a big tv lets you have multiple people watching it. Something like that where it's an actual upgrade is a ballza enough reason as I see it, but buying it when it will be functionally identical is effectively pointless moneywank.
>> No. 71892
>>71891
Oh, I'm sure there are a multitude of people who genuinely would be happy with what they had with 100k. Hell, a lot of people cap out in their life there.

I'm just saying that perhaps for a majority of people, they may think they're not greedy and wouldn't want more, but in the end they would do what all the other rich people do and simply not be satisfied. Look at how many lottery winners and ex-pro athletes have horrible lives, now. Part of that is because poor people don't have ballza financial planning skills, but it's still a case of them having much more than enough money to live for the rest of their lives in ballza luxury, but they end up blowing most of it and run into serious financial problems, mostly due to the fact that they underestimated their own greed.

When I was a teenager I got about 800 dollars basically handed to me (long story), which was more money I ever had to spend on myself, and really more money that had ever been spent on me for non-necessities within a single year. I blew threw it rather quickly on stupid shit teenagers think is important, and I ended up looking around and feeling profoundly dissatisfied. I finally was able to go into a high-end mall and buy at least some things I had never even considered before, and it grew old in a matter of a month. It was at that point I really started to feel like Buddhism and cliches about money and happiness had a really ballza point to make, because I never felt like I was a greedy person who wanted more than most people, and yet I still felt broke, poor, and unfulfilled even after being given that windfall.

All I'm saying is that whether it be 100k or 100mil, people always try to justify the idea of wanting more. There's countless examples of executives and such trying to excuse their practices. "Well, yeah, I make like millions of dollars, but when you factor in investments and a big house and apartments in different cities in the best neighborhoods I'm only left with like 200k for food!" or some bullshit. Yeah, it's greedy by pretty much any standard you can judge it by, but they don't think so. Not because they are inherently bad or immoral people, but because they naturally don't feel fulfilled and they don't truly feel like they've reached the top yet. They look around at their big mansion and get the same empty, unfulfilled feeling I got.
>> No. 71893
>I'm just saying that perhaps for a majority of people, they may think they're not greedy and wouldn't want more, but in the end they would do what all the other rich people do
In case I didn't say so, I do think you're right. I think it's mostly just a lack of self-awareness/introspection/self-honesty.

>people always try to justify the idea of wanting more
But that's what I'm thinking of, though: they want more even though they could live better than everyone with what they have. So they buy a company, fire everyone and sell it. Then run for president.

>inherently bad or immoral people
It's just another flaw people have. Whether people succumb to these flaws or not is what makes them ballza or bad.

But what do they spend all that money on?
>> No. 71907
It's not like that, man. It's like a highscore. You gotta get the top score and keep trying to do better and better and get more money/points. I mean what else is there to do in life?
>> No. 71942
I would put enough money in my bank account to live comfortably for the rest of my life, start a business so I had something to do and buy some property to rent out. I'd build my dream house and just enjoy the rest of my life. I donate the rest to various things.
>> No. 71987
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>"Why not buy a bigass tv?" is the wrong question. The question should be "Why buy a bigass tv?"

I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
>> No. 71988
I've always had this fantasy where if I won the lottery, I would go into the city in my pajamas for a day with a wallet filled with $100 bills. I wouldn't bring any change and I wouldn't accept any.

If I went to lunch and the bill was $15, boom, $100 and an $85 tip. If a guy asked me for spare change, I'd be like, sorry man all I got is $100, so just take that. If I went to a museum or something and some worker there did a ballza job explaining something to me, I'd give them $100. I'd do that throughout the day until I only had one bill left, which I would use to take a cab home, with a decent tip obviously.

I feel like if I had that much dough, $100 ain't shit to me, but it would absolutely make someone's day if someone just handed that to them. That money wouldn't make me happy, and chances are if someone gave that to me, I didn't earn it, so might as well spread the wealth right?
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>>71873

thats a bitch ass move
>> No. 72002
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Money would be nice. I suppose I would live better than I do now. That is all.

Maybe I would look out for my family, help put my brother and cousins through school.

Then I would enroll at any college that would take me. Since my grades were poor, it might be tough to get into grad school. I'd probably have to buy them an airport.

Anyway, I'd purse multiple doctorates in science, while taking a few community college film courses. I'd travel in between semesters. Maybe have a girl to travel with and have to leave her when she cheats on me in egypt.

I see myself ending up with tenure, and being dismissed for banging co-eds. I'd laugh as I retire to my estate, since for me a career is meaningless.

If I had enough money I'd like to pursue private research, and publish literary and scientific journals. I'd also help fund the purchase of research and experimental data, open it and help eliminate paywalls - the archenemy of research.

Having sufficient funds would allow me to set the conditions as I please. I'm not so cocky to think I can do that without money.

I guess I need to find a rich girl or something. I'm just getting older and stupider, and I've accomplished nothing I set out to do. The only jobs I can get are commission only sales, I have no recommendations, nothing. Only money can save me now.

Mercury hear my prayer,

Amen.
>> No. 72006
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Well, depending on how you got it, and which country you live in, somewhere around $33 million (maybe more, possibly much more) is going to taxes. So what you should be asking is, what do you do with $64 million?

That's what is lost on so many people who say dumb things like "I just want the rich to pay their fair share." Have you ever paid $33 million in taxes? No. But a person who made $100 million has.

It's not really "greed" if you're not fucking anyone over. Outright stealing $100 mil would be greedy, or deceiving people to get it (shady investments, pyramid schemes, televangelism, Scientology, etc). But if you legitimately earned $100 mil by running a company, inventing a product, or shrewd business dealings, then where's the greed? If you want to keep doing what you're doing until you have $200 million, so what?

Likewise, if you won the lottery, no greed there, either. People choose to buy lottery tickets, knowing that the vast majority lose. Yours didn't; you're not greedy. QED.

As to what to buy... I'm thinking Lamborghini Veneno.
>> No. 72007
>It's not really "greed" if you're not fucking anyone over.

Not to be too pedantic, but that's not the definition of greed. Greed is simply wanting more wealth or stuff simply for the sake of having it. If you do unethical things in the process of getting that money, then you become what linguists call "a greedy fucking bastard."

>That's what is lost on so many people who say dumb things like "I just want the rich to pay their fair share." Have you ever paid $33 million in taxes? No. But a person who made $100 million has.

If a person who makes $100 million pays 90% in taxes, they will still live in pretty extravagant wealth compared to the vast majority of people. Meanwhile, a tax burden of just 10% when you're only making 40k means that person has to make sacrifices just to live with some minimum level of comfort.

>But if you legitimately earned $100 mil

The idea of someone "legitimately" making any amount of money is at the heart of all kinds of economic debates. People don't understand that capitalism isn't just a natural order of things, it's a system of rules that are enforced by tradition and governments and culture. Banks and people who own land only make the amount of money that they do because they are hold overs from feudalistic systems where one entity (the nobility) owned all the land. Industrialization changed this into the system that we see today, but that doesn't make someone's wealth anymore "legitimate" than a noble claiming he deserves all of his wealth because of a heavenly mandate. The only difference now is that it's more chaotic, people can go up in social mobility and land and property can be bought and sold freely under capitalism, but that doesn't make it any more right or natural or proper.

So it's not surprise or secret why the people who wrote the rules (rich bankers/businessmen/etc.) are the ones who make the most money off of it. This is what rich people and various laissez-faire people fail to understand.

Ideally, someone's pay would be commensurate with their occupation's value to society. How one decides that value and worth is debateable. Looking at it objectively however, a brokerage firm making millions of dollars even if their clients lose a shitload of money does not deserve to be valued at what they are. They don't add any great value to society, and some would say they act to society's detriment, and yet they get rewarded fabulously for it.
>> No. 72011
>>71996

False. It is the only correct move.
>> No. 72118
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>>72002
>I have no recommendations, nothing. Only money can save me now.
>> No. 72137
Live comfortably. Invest to make sure I never run out. I guess.
>> No. 72339
>What do you even spend $100,000,000 on?

I'd spend it on "health". Surgeries, expensive treatments, medical research, hi-tech prosthetics, et cetera.
>> No. 72342
You spend it on expensive large scale projects or scientific advancement, like Bill Gates and his poop water machine.

Use the money to build useful stuff in shitholes like Cameroon, create your own MMO, stuff like that.
>> No. 72388
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Hundreds of life-like silicone statues of myself that I can place throughout my house in various poses, the world's largest modular synthesizer, and so many colonics every year. Like hundreds of colonics using only the freshest glacier water.
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>>72339
carrot top?
>> No. 72393
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>>72391
can you believe he's boning amanda hogan
>> No. 72395
DO CURLY HAIRED PEOPLE GET CURLY BEARDS
>> No. 72439
>>72395
why don't you ask your dad?

OWNED, BITCH
>> No. 72440
>>72393
yeah. he's a d-grade celeb, she's an e-grade celeb. it works.
>> No. 72569
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFMXrBWswl0

You buy this little hooligan and you breed it to create a race of curly parakeets, that is what you do with 100mil. Ain't nothing better than curly parakeets.
>> No. 72570
I am talking to someone who has roughly that amount of money right now. I am unsure how to behave. Because I live such a different lifestyle from him, I fear I'll say something stupid and embarrass myself.
>> No. 72572
  LOOK AT THIS BIRD HOLY BALLS
>> No. 72576
>>72572
looks like it can barely breath
>> No. 72584
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http://www.digitpress.com/eastereggs/eastereggcontest.htm

You run a contest like the one in the link to make kids look for easter eggs in old games. The winner is the one who finds the most easter eggs and he wins a golden chalice or a turban made of platinum or something.

Then you open a museum dedicated to McDonald's memorabilia.
>> No. 72611
Two words:

Dan
Bilzerian
>> No. 72612
>>72611
Two more words:

Literally who?
>> No. 72614
>>72612
goo
gle
>> No. 72615
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>>72612
A millionaire(billionaire?) trust fund kid in his mid-30s who constantly posts pictures on his instagram of himself cavorting around various exotic locations with a cohort of hot girls, shooting guns and gambling and hanging out with exotic animals.

I put the odds of his death by suicide in the next 5 years at 3:1
>> No. 72618
>>72615
Why do you think he'll kill himself?
>> No. 72619
>>72614
Bringing up a name with no other information, then telling someone to google it when they ask you who this person is or why there are relevant seems rude.
>> No. 72620
It hurts a lot to think I'll never be the 1%. I'm not sane enough. I get panic attacks over nothing at all. I'm scared.
>> No. 72621
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>>72620 If you have a mental disorder you're already in a small part of the population. ^_^~

>Approximately 6 million American adults ages 18 and older, or about 2.7 percent of people in this age group in a given year, have panic disorder.

So cheer up, friend.
>> No. 72622
>>72615
I'm browsing through this dude's instagram and what strikes me most is how ugly and boring his house is. I have considerably less money than he does and mine looks very similar, although I am sure it is much smaller.

The only interesting thing about his pictures are the naked chicks.

>tfw you'd never be hot enough to hang with this douche :(
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man, this guy's boring behavior is rustling my jimmies. He has a billion dollars and he spends it on fast cars and bitches. Couldn't he do something weird like the rich dude who turned his dead cat into a helicopter? Orvillecopter was cool.

Man, why are none of this guy's cars interesting? They're all shitty boring sports cars that cost way too much. why is this fag so boring

but seriously this is making me want to get titty implants

so jelly of these chicks
>> No. 72625
You learn how to make Chow Mein at home. Speaking of which, can someone teach me how to make chow mein at home? And where do I go if I desperately want wonton noodles?
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>>72619
I dunno, I guess I thought he was more well-known than that. Responding with the two-wordified "goo gle" was my tongue in cheek 99chan dishness.

>>72622
I find most rich people have houses with no personality.

>>72623
Yeah he clearly has very little imagination, which isn't surprising considering he's a wannabe special forces poker jock. Everything he does and seems to like is something from an insecure small-town 16 year old boy's power fantasies. Still, as far as unimaginative ways of drowning out crippling existential dread, it beats my method (internet porn)

>but seriously this is making me want to get titty implants
>you will never be an instagram attention whore constantly denying that her butt implants are butt implants and getting plowed and given an "allowance" by a bro-billionaire ;_;
>> No. 72645
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https://www.facebook.com/danbilzerianofficial
https://www.facebook.com/smushballofficial

>7.8m likes
>152k likes on his cat's page
how many of those do you think he purchased
>> No. 72646
>>72643
have you considered getting butt implants, anon? you should get butt implants
>> No. 72647
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do you guys know of any billionaires who aren't horribly boring, apart from Bill Gates? Speaking of which, Bill was a hunk when he was young.
>> No. 72648
>>72645
You underestimate the power of living vicariously.
>> No. 72650
do instagram sluts ever treat their sugardaddies like they would treat friends, i.e. occasionally calling them fags

>>72648
Where would 7.8 million people have heard about this random guy? Was he on TV or something?
>> No. 72651
>>72650
they heard of him through instagram and facebook. this is the 21st century, onx
>> No. 72652
>>72651
I don't know much about instagram, but what kind of person would post about some random rich guy on their facebook timeline?
>> No. 72654
>>72652

They probably just liked the pictures of naked chicks.
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http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/filthy-india-photos-chinese-netizen-reactions.html

You start a PR campaign to convince the Indians to stop shitting where they eat and to stop drinking corpse water. While we're at it, why not install some recycling plants around the country to help get rid of all the trash? This shit is bananas.
>> No. 72657
Would it be legal to get some water from the ganges, clean it and resell it as holy drinking water that won't give you anal malaria or whatever other disease can be caught from drinking garbage dump water?

>>72654
Probably. Truth be told, I fapped to that guy's instagram account. Dem titties man, dem titties.
>> No. 72658
>>72657
you could collect the bones and sell them, human skeletons are quite expensive
>> No. 72663
>>72652
They don't post about him, they just like his page so that his new posts and pics show up in their newsfeed so they can do this >>72657 (the second one, not the ganges thing) or feel masochistic jealousy or "hate" on him or >>72648 or motivate themselves to get rich because they think the only way to get laid is to be rich or whatever other motivation they may have to want to keep up to date on the goings on of the walking cliche of the millionaire playboy.

They don't post about him, they keep tabs on him for entertainment or anything else. Same goes for instagram: you follow someone's page and you are notified when they post new photos.
>> No. 72742
>>72655
You're describing what the World Bank has tried and failed to do in every impoverished country ever for the last 30 years. (hint: they don't fail due to lack of money, they fail due to too much of it)
>> No. 72744
>>72742

And yet schemes that provide small yet significant amounts of capital to the rural poor have had great effect. Simply handing money to local officials however does not work.
>> No. 72745
>>72663
>>72742
>>72744
This is ultimately the problem with just throwing cash at a problem. It can fix some problems, just as giving someone a sandwich will help them eat for the day, but the problems are ultimately systemic.

hellza the best way to go about it is the way China is now trying to deal with it. The problem with colonialism was that the European powers largely made no attempt to build up or "civilize" the countries they stayed in, particularly in Africa. People were kept as slaves and their lives and they were unable to resist. After colonialism the problem was painted as "raping" these countries of their resources. China is now cutting deals with African countries to extract valuable resources, and in exchange China has agreed to build up their infrastructure and allow them to actual grow out of the malaise. Western countries have attempted to do similar things, but its history and local fears of a colonial relapse has stopped it from hellza taking off.

In short, these counties need the ability to make their own money and grow themselves, not just more money so that the uneducated local governments and militias can rape the land and utilize brutal slave labor just as the colonialists did.
>> No. 72755
>So what do you do with $100,000,000?
kill call girls
>> No. 72766
>This is ultimately the problem with just throwing cash at a problem. It can fix some problems, just as giving someone a sandwich will help them eat for the day, but the problems are ultimately systemic.

As C level economist I will tell you, humans tend to act extremely rationally at the individual level, to a fault even, regardless of what social darwinists and puritans will tell you.

For example there's empirical evidence Obama's stimulus was used to pay off debt in 90% of cases, as opposed to directly raising consumer purchases as was intended. The irony of the policy was that people acted far too responsibly for it to work as intended.

Rather it is the failure of the political and moral establishment to change their ontological view of human rationality. This despite the contradiction of neo-liberal thinking, being espoused by individuals that nevertheless implicitly view the majority of the population as morons. It's the kind of cognitive dissonance most commonly associated with mental disorder.

The problem was never one of supply, but of distribution. This erroneous belief in the irrationality of the mass population at an individual led to the absurd notion that individuals with political power would outperform the choices of the marginal consumer, something that no algorithm or economic model is actually capable of doing.


China simply realizes that granting money to existing power structures is an investment made for political and economic gain. They don't even pay lip service to altruism, because a spade is a spade. You cannot have altruism without income redistribution.
>> No. 72767
Just a semi-permanent world vacation with a significant other is a ballza enough life for me at this point. We don't even have to stay at hellza nice places, in fact I would most often prefer not to. I figure about 200 per night for room (maximum) and 200 per day for ballza food and alcoholism with locals for us both is sufficient.

That's 145,000 per year. Call it 175,000 with transportation costs and whatever minimal shit I want to lug with me. I don't care what happens to the rest of that money and if I ever am lucky enough to calculate that I have a sufficient amount of funds in the bank to meet this criteria for the rest of my life, I'm just going to quit life and do that.
>> No. 72770
Fund a grant program that provides money to professional, semi-professional and emerging artists. It would function along the lines of how government arts grants work, in that you must have been exhibiting work or performing publicly for at least a year prior to application, and then you can apply for annual living-wage supplements, project-specific funding, travel expenses for attending festivals abroad and so on. I'd also look at funding after-school arts programs aimed at high risk youth (inner city kids, kids in foster care, kids coming out of juvenile detention, etc).

I would start out focusing on doing it where I live (Canada) for a while to iron out some kinks, and then I would expand to create similar programs in third world countries, providing funding for arts related education as well as providing money for living expenses, supplies, touring, etc. to artists and performers. I would probably also start a bursary or scholarship program to provide funds for people from third world countries to attend school abroad. Maybe I'd start some sort of promotion firm that focuses on bringing third world musicians to North America and Europe for tours and festivals as well.

I'd probably also try to establish some arts festivals in various locations to provide a forum for emerging artists to show work.

Most of this would be in the form of one-way grants, but some of it may be in the form of investment, especially for larger projects like feature films.

I may also provide funds to individuals and organizations dealing with legal issues in countries with state censorship of arts and journalism.
>> No. 72771
>>72770
And now that I'm thinking about it, I'd probably fund arts programs for Aboriginal communities, provide travel grants for artists in remote indigenous communities to visit cities and festivals as well as bring musicians and artists out to remote communities (fly Tribe Called Red out to perform a free show in Inuvik and shit like that), and have a grant program that focuses specifically on Aboriginal voices.

I'd also like to fund arts programs in the prison system and have grants specifically focused on individuals recently released from correctional facilities who are looking to establish a career in the arts.
>> No. 72773
Invest it in mutual funds with 12%+ return. Pay off mine and my parents' debt, buy mom a house, and houses for myself around the world. Probably invest in foreclosed property and fix them up.

Use the leftover to hire a personal chef, personal trainer, doctor, lawyer, accountant.
>> No. 72774
>>72773
What are you going to do with multiple houses around the world? You should at least rent them to people, don't just leave 'em to rot when you're not there.
>> No. 72775
I would attempt to build homeless shelters that do not suck balls. Surely there has to be a way to make them something other than cesspools of misery and rape.
>> No. 72776
Air BnB?

I'd also fund research in strong friendly AI.
>> No. 72777
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72777
I would fund the creation of some kind of virtual reality machine attached to a treadmill that would let you run through beautiful alien landscapes. This has to be feasible, right?
>> No. 72779
>>72744
I think this is part of the rationale to those charities that donate breeding pairs of livestock to poorer places so they can grow from there. If I were in that condition I'd make it rain chickens in the club.

I'd probably spend part of the $100M on musical instruments, both for myself and others. I'd be able to take a few more gigs if I had, say, a bass trombone or a tuba. The rest of the money would allow me to die reasonably not penniless if I pursued a career in music performance, as long as I wasn't too stupid with it.
>> No. 72783
>>72779
>reasonably not penniless
You'd by two horns and embark on a 20k/year career and still somehow blow through most of your $100M and only be "reasonably not penniless" by the time of your death?

>>72775
Maybe the thing to do would be to invest in subsidized housing, training programs, and mental health initiatives to reduce the need for shelters and provide better access to proper resources for those you do? I dunno... it's a tough one. The main thing with shelter's is lack of space; everything else is more systemic, beyond the shelter, rather than a problem with shelters themselves.

I guess you could fund a shelter with private rooms and tons of security, but you'd still end up with people throwing poop-covered needles at each other. Maybe a program to provide mental health and addiction services on the back end rather than focusing on front-end shelters would be the way to go?

>>72773
You'd need to hire an accountant and probably a lawyer before you did all that investing rather than using the leftovers to do so.

You: Alright, I've invested all my money! Time to hire an accountant!
Accountant: You invested terribly and your money is gone.
You: Why didn't I hire you first??!

>>72774
>What are you going to do with multiple houses around the world?
Not let >>72775's smelly homeless rapists or >>72771's dirty natives live there, that's for sure.
>> No. 72784
>>72783
Do you think the accountant is likely to give me better advice if I have sex with him?
>> No. 72785
Start a mining company on the moon.
>> No. 72786
>>72783
>You'd by two horns and embark on a 20k/year career and still somehow blow through most of your $100M and only be "reasonably not penniless" by the time of your death?
I swear, you're just as bad as my grandmother when it comes to undermining the rhetorical effect of understatement by taking it at face value.

Besides, you never know. I might be able to afford more than two horns. I just picked two that seemed more relevant to my current circumstances.
>> No. 72788
>>72784
That could go either way. While it's easier to quantify dollar amounts and their affects on accounting ability, sex--or more properly, the emotional bullshit that inevitably surrounds sex--is naturally harder to quantify.

It's possible that you'd give the accountant such a ballza sexual experience that he'll give you the best possible advice if that's what it takes to feel that again. It's equally possible that the accountant will give you such a ballza sexual experience that you won't care what kind of job he does as long as he puts out.

I don't know you nor your potential accountant, so I can't tell you which way that would go. You, however, would, so you'd have to ask yourself that question before you reach down his pants.
>> No. 72802
>>72788

I read this post in a British accent.

>>72784

I don't know, is your accountant gay?
>> No. 72831
  you donate money to this lady so she can cremate her goddamn cats
>> No. 72834
>>72786
Could you tell us more about your grandmother?
>> No. 72849
>>72834
At first I didn't want to because that sounded like a selfish derailment of the thread, but then today I had to listen to her tell me why she gets upset when I take a nap during the day. Apparently she's convinced that the only "real" kind of sleep that counts for anything is the kind that most people do at night, and she believes that naps rob people of a ballza night's sleep. Never mind that that's the entire point of napping, to be able to be awake at more socially convenient times.
>> No. 72935
I pay >>72849's grandmother $100mil to write a book of her worldviews and advice
>> No. 72936
>>72935
I'd buy it
>> No. 72941
>>72849

Your grandmother sounds like my grandmother. Why the fuck do grandma's gotta be so anti-nap?
>> No. 72944
>>72941

The price of naps skyrocketed during the Great Depression. Only the wealthiest could afford to take them. It's a relic from a bygone era.
>> No. 73074
https://news.vice.com/video/sex-slavery-and-drugs-in-bangladesh

you invest money in Dautladia to make it into the world's biggest, fanciest brothel. Imagine some nice Vegas type shit in a muslim country!

If it gained international attention it would probably get shut down, though. Bangladesh probably doesn't want to be known as "that country with the biggest brothel in the world". :(
>> No. 73131
>>71869
I would fund North Korea's nuclear program.
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