Just a wonder on how you’d spend it. I’d probably buy up some land and build a nice village or town kind of similar to Poundbury. I’d probably sell houses at a fair price but only to people who send in a CV and seem to be upstanding people who actually want to work and be a part of a community, as well as giving them a mortgage Then I’d have a nice mansion and pretend to be a Lord where I can look over my wonderful tenants and maybe buy them Christmas gifts and send them birthday cards. Help them out if they need it.
Basically what some Lords did centuries ago but probably more kinder. Oh, and the place will be built with nice old timey architecture as well. Probably cobble streets because screw cars lmao. I just want to give people a nice life I guess as well as LARP as nobility
Setup solar panels with 99% of it then probably die in an orgy of hedonism with the remaining 6 million.
Quit my job and travel for a while. I’d give 15% to family\friends. I also tend to be partial to the poor\homeless so I’d probably start a program to house and feed those that need it in a big way. And I’d invest 50% of it so I was wealthy, period. In my will, I’d give it all to children’s hospital’s around the country\world.
Fund everyone working on medical nanobots. I get down with living to 120 with a good quality of life. Of course, this would go a long way to helping a lot of people with serious issues.
I would create a trust for my daughter, an annuity for my wife that includes payments for healthcare, and a separate fund for property tax and home maintenance to ensure my daughter has a residence and doesn’t have to settle later in life.
Next, I would through my friend list (it’s not big) and pay off mortgages for those that have them, and purchase homes outright for those that don’t.
Finally, I would use the remaining funds to buy up and then forgive US medical debts for pennies on the dollar. This last one would probably exhaust the funds, but would have the broadest positive impact on people.
So after taxes about $4B?
Take 500 million out for me, start a business and do all the stuff we want to.
If possible: Use the rest for a fund for perpetuity to fund transit all over my city, make the buses free and running every 15 minutes, and pay the drivers and all the other workers a really good wage.
If that’s impossible, I guess I have to run for governor, win, and Make Florida Freaky Again! Work for the good of our state. Is billions enough to do it?
