if you get a chance to win $1,000,000,000.00 in a lottery, Where will you spend the money? and why?

[Lilani]

$1 billion? Good Lord. Well I guess first I'd help my parents and immediate family members with all their debts. Then I'd get myself out of this state college and into an Art Institute or CalArts--with a private room. Then I'd put a substantial amount away in various savings and investments, and then donate another substantial chunk to various charities. And hire a few damn good investment brokers and accountants along the way.

Yeah, sorry, I have trouble coming up with ridiculous ideas when it comes to things like this >.>;

 

[2xDouble]

On the chance to win a billion dollars? I'd spend money on some of those lottery tickets.

If I won the billion, I have a complex plan that I can't detail here because some jerk is going to steal my ideas again. Suffice it to say, lives will be changed.

...also, bwahahahaha!!

 

[blackflare]

I would buy a ton of land/properties

Since the value of money is currently falling and live the life of a monarch. Build a giant fortress of solitude and become a super villain which has everything he wants but since my greed is unquenchable i would try to take over everything. I probably wont be looked upon positively and maybe be mistaken for a dictator but in general i would probably be a bit of a "insert negative word here"

i could always give to charity but its not in my nature

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I had an idea recently, for every £1,000,000 you have in savings or annual income, I'd require that you hired 10 people in full time employment.

For those already running large businesses, it would not affect them, but for those who've just inherited cash and done nothing to earn it, it would at least mean that they couldn't just sit pointlessly on huge riches, and remember I'm allowing each person a million quid in savings before I'd affect anything.

I just can't help but feel many people who pass a few million in the bank get into a mindset of just wanting bigger numbers, rather than realising that they could sit back and relax for the rest of their lives and let someone else take the reins. Or even stay in charge but spread the profits around to make more people content with their career.

Another idea I heard that I like was that any company has a maximum wage of 20 times the lowest wage in the company. So, if you're not content with earning 200k a year, that's fine, assign yourself a raise, but realise the wages will increase across the whole company, from CEOs to the office cleaners.

I understand that money and high wages drive people, but I also think at a certain point it stops being about being able to afford luxuries and just becomes a dick swinging contest about who's 'winning'. That is no use to anyone.

 

[Saltyk]

*snip*

Wow, you have put an awful lot more thought into this than I have.

And yes, while I'm not exactly the most religion-tolerant person myself, I've never suggested, or wanted to burn down a church, and certainly wouldn't expect an apology for any insults thrown my way if I did. The idea that someone would is somewhat ridiculous.

Nah. As I said, this topic has come up before amongst many people I know. Generally when the lottery gets insanely high (like over 100 million dollars). I've thought of what I would do in that scenario, and it's exactly what I stated earlier. So, that's why I had such a precise plan. I may never win the lottery, but a good chunk of the fun is imagining what you would do with it (its pretty much all of the fun unless you win it).

I'm far more tolerant of religion, I guess. I wouldn't have said anything about the first comment, as simply looked at him as a bigot or troll that wasn't worth addressing. But the second comment was too much. It just really irked me to see someone act so hypocritical within such a short period of time.