I would travel the world. 8)
Give it all away.
Have more dogs, do a lot more with them (doing stuff with dogs is hella expensive), do more in rescue, hire a housekeeper to help with the fur removal, and travel and eat a lot of crazy weird food.
I'd end up giving away a lot of it too. Not to any specific cause, just to people who need it. I hear people talking about medical bills or car repairs or whatever all the time and I always wish I had enough money to just make it go away for them.
Of course I'd have to invest a lot of it somehow too, so I don't burn through it all and end up broke.
I'd pay off bills -- my bills, my friends bills, my relatives bills, possibly some strangers bills. Then I'd buy a huge amount of acreage somewhere nice but accessible, hire people who knew what they were doing, and run a no-kill animal shelter. Finally, I'd open a bookstore to serve as my own private library, tho I would sell a book to anyone who wandered in. I would not serve coffee tho.
I'll have to think about this.
Build myself a small 4 stall luxury barn with a large heated and air conditioned indoor arena, heated wash rack, heated tack room. Buy all the saddle pads in every color and all the Tailored Sportsmans.I have given this a lot of thought.
First, do let us define a billion, shall we? How many zeroes?
Quote from: Asmodean on December 29, 2014, 01:54:46 AM
First, do let us define a billion, shall we? How many zeroes?
$1,000,000,000
I#d buy the car I want, fix a super duper enclosure for my iguana, fix my apartment and the rest in a bank where I will use them with the rest of my cash.
oh yeah and buy a super duuperishious zoom lens for bird photography
and gadgets
who doesn't love gadgets
Quote from: Tank on December 29, 2014, 08:32:29 AM
Quote from: Asmodean on December 29, 2014, 01:54:46 AM
First, do let us define a billion, shall we? How many zeroes?
$1,000,000,000
This. Probably a few zeros short if you're plotting world domination but still a lot of money nonetheless. :D
Well, with a "short" billion, I'd spend most of it buying myself an island and the rest living comfortably on it.
Were it a long billion, now that would have made things interesting!
I'm assuming there is no tax burden with this one billion. With that assumption, here is my plan:
1. Pay off any debts (wouldn't take much of it);
2. Give 25% to educational and medical charities/foundations;
3. Invest the rest in relatively safe investments (if I got 4% off of $750,000,000.00, that would be $30,000,000.00 annually);
4. Out of the annual income, pay taxes (estimated about 40%), share with family (grand kids education would be top priority), and travel;
5. Upon my death, the corpus would be divided among charities and my family.
I would travel more, while I still can.
Turn it into 2 billion, then that into 4 and so on. Once you have large amounts of expendable cash making more money is pretty straight forward. Once you have a decent system in place and employees working and creating profits without intervention you can invest money into others and not expect a return whilst still making more money. I'd probably focus on energy and food production and change them to suit my whims and manipulate the government to get what I want.
I think I would throw a lot of it into education as well.
Is The Asmo the only one to openly admit that His first thoughts would be about The Asmo and how to increase His level of comfort? Well, He isn't, but it sure feels that way with all the do-gooders around. something needs to be DONE. >:(
Quote from: Asmodean on December 30, 2014, 12:58:48 PM
Is The Asmo the only one to openly admit that His first thoughts would be about The Asmo and how to increase His level of comfort? Well, He isn't, but it sure feels that way with all the do-gooders around. something needs to be DONE. >:(
Yeah but yours is pretty mediocre and not so well thought through. You would buy an island then have to transport food, supplies, and other amenities considering you would have to specifically charter ships to bring you the goods you want, as well as needing to create infrastructures such as plumbing, electricity, internet and hire people to manage these for the rest of your lifetime you would run out of money very quickly and be stuck on an island with no food, no electricity and no internet surrounded by a bunch of starving people and useless gadgets whilst urine and faeces would pile up.
What part of "most of it" did you miss..? ??? A billion does not buy what it once did, but it certainly buys sanitation, a small power plant, a helicopter and a few other necessities.
The pilot and helicopter maintenance are expensive, but coverable with dividends. Power plant and other maintenance tasks would have to be done by outside contractors, like they are in, oh, I don't know... Pretty much everywhere.
It's not an ambitious project. People have done similar before with way less.
Hate to admit it, but probably throw a huge party and get drunk (I would rent an island and pay for the Stones to perform) ...what a shame, a whole year of sobriey down the fucking drain.
But hey if you're going to go off the wagon is there anyone better than Keith Richards to do it with?
I thought mine was pretty self-centered. I would share it somehow though. Personality flaw I guess.
Quote from: Pasta Chick on December 30, 2014, 05:27:00 PM
I thought mine was pretty self-centered. I would share it somehow though. Personality flaw I guess.
Yes. Flaw. Work on it. IMMEDIATELY! >:(
The Asmo is a God of selfishness and charity... Displeases Him. >:(
Quote from: Asmodean on December 30, 2014, 12:58:48 PM
Is The Asmo the only one to openly admit that His first thoughts would be about The Asmo and how to increase His level of comfort?
No, except about Siz not Asmo. Though I might eventually get around to thinking of someone not Siz once I was bored of being comfortable on my own.
I'd definitely buy lots of water somewhere warm, around or within which some habitable land might exist. Some water vehicles of various sizes and levels of staff - both wind and petrol powered - would feature heavily. A velocipede or two would almost certainly be considered too.
A Michelin-starred chef (just a single star would suffice) would be employed to feed myself and the harem.
I think to invest half would realise enough income to maintain comfort levels indefinitely.
Buy JJ a Farm.
Come to think of it, the first thing I would do is change it into Sterling before the exchange-rate gets any lower. ;D
Quote from: Bruno on December 30, 2014, 05:18:59 PM
But hey if you're going to go off the wagon is there anyone better than Keith Richards to do it with?
You'd probably end up starting other habits you'd have to quit later as well. ;D
I'd buy or build a nice house near where we live now, a new car (a Tesla most likely), and an airplane, enough to travel internationally. Use that to travel more easily and comfortably around the world. Perhaps quit my job for a year and take some classes in certain things I find interesting Just Because (language, astronomy, etc).
That would still leave a large chunk. I'd donate at least 20% of it to various things I already donate to and invest the rest.
I would throw the biggest party ever! Only HAF members would be invited. I'll buy everyone plane tickets, and I'll pay for hotel accommodations. Gerry will be my guest of honor, I will get him high on weed and drunk with tequila so that he can relax for the first time in his life. He can bring his Banana Jack Amp and we can sing this song all night long: Banana Jack Amp (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1335354839/banana-jack-amps-no-solder-all-tube-guitar-amp-kit) by Gerry. We'll play the game called: Who can plug the darn thing the fastest? We'll have a great time! :)
Quote from: Magdalena on December 31, 2014, 06:35:41 AM
I would throw the biggest party ever! Only HAF members would be invited.
Ye you say that but I bet my invitation gets inexplicably lost in the mail, goodfriendbillspammer487 will no doubt get his though.
I've paid some money to an internet cloning concern, for when my organs start to give out. I have some suspicions as to their bona fides though.
I'll be using a chunk of my billion getting some proper clones growing.
I'll get a yacht, crew it with short life clones and sail about burying separately ten caches of $5million gold and two $25 million, just in case. Clones will die and only I will know where.
I'll set up the Eric Preservation foundation and gift it 50 million, I don't want to rely on the clones entirely.
The balance will be invested in leading Boy band tooth brush technology companies.
Probably will appropriate everybody else's billion to fund my human mind to computer transfer research.
Quote from: OldGit on December 30, 2014, 07:56:17 PM
Come to think of it, the first thing I would do is change it into Sterling before the exchange-rate gets any lower. ;D
OR you could buy Bitcoin for some extra excitement every time you wake up;
"Has I still the money? Has I?!"