If you had nearly an unlimited supply of money...

[Drakmorg]

Step 1: Build my own artificial island
Step 2: Build Big-Ass mansion on private island
Step 3: Declare my Island to be it's own sovereign nation, and I it's mighty God-Emperor
Step 4: Live out rest of days on island with my family and friends
Step 5: Fake my own death
Step 6: Watch war break out among my disciples over who would succeed to my throne from my private space station
Step 7: Nuke private island from space station for no raisin, shouting "I am the Greetest" (cookie for reference) as I crash my station into the most densely populated are of the world I can find
Step 8: Profit

 

[Lawyer105]

Did you not read the part where I put "given the value of whatever currency your using isn't affected" ?

Sure I did... but it's a nonsensical comment. Unlimited supplies of money are fairly easy to come up with. Look at pretty much any 3rd world dictatorship-type county.

Positing an infinite money supply without devaluation is a lot like saying "so what art works would you go look at if you've just lost your sight" - i.e. nonsense.

Why does it have to be that complicated in the first place? Its just a fun question thread, I have no idea why anyone would be so anal about this, loosen up.

Ask a stupid question and, since this is the internet, you'll get a self-important bearded tosser (or whatever that phrase it) correcting you on it. How did you not see this coming?

 

[elbrandino]

Buy lots of suits, overcoats, and sweet fedoras. Then buy a company so I have a reason to wear them. Build a huge house on a huge piece of property, set up an airsoft field and buy all the uniforms I want for World War II reenacting. Personal rifle range, get a license for fully automatic weapons, collect old weapons, and of course, get a good education.

Step 1: Build my own artificial island
Step 2: Build Big-Ass mansion on private island
Step 3: Declare my Island to be it's own sovereign nation, and I it's mighty God-Emperor
Step 4: Live out rest of days on island with my family and friends
Step 5: Fake my own death
Step 6: Watch war break out among my disciples over who would succeed to my throne from my private space station
Step 7: Nuke private island from space station for no raisin, shouting "I am the Greetest" (cookie for reference) as I crash my station into the most densely populated are of the world I can find
Step 8: Profit

Why, it's Futurama of course! The Day the Earth Stood Stupid.

 

[Akytalusia]

unlimited funds=unlimited inflation=worthless currency.

buuut, since it's unlimited, i guess i'd just give everyone in the world all the money they'd ever need, and keep giving it to them to keep up with inflating prices, then eventually drown everyone in money until the world became a solid ball of cash, and we'd all die.

wait, that's probably not good either.

 

[iseko]

I'd do too miuch with it to explain. But first thing if I won the lottery or something like that: Tell all my friends to take a year off. Give em all 100K as spending money and travel the world with them. I'd pay for all the traveling. The 100K is just for them to have fun with. I'd be like riding golfcarts in the sahara by day. Flying to monaco and partying there by night. Doing crazy stuff like that for a year.

 

[Zantos]

Lose it all in poker. Fuck yeah!

 

[Vonnis]

Build up an army armed with the most devastating weaponry mankind has come up with, take over the world, and rule it with an iron fist of course. Dare to think big.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Did you not read the part where I put "given the value of whatever currency your using isn't affected" ?

Sure I did... but it's a nonsensical comment. Unlimited supplies of money are fairly easy to come up with. Look at pretty much any 3rd world dictatorship-type county.

Positing an infinite money supply without devaluation is a lot like saying "so what art works would you go look at if you've just lost your sight" - i.e. nonsense.

Why does it have to be that complicated in the first place? Its just a fun question thread, I have no idea why anyone would be so anal about this, loosen up.

Ask a stupid question and, since this is the internet, you'll get a self-important bearded tosser (or whatever that phrase it) correcting you on it. How did you not see this coming?

Exactly, its the internet, I don't give a damn, why do you?

 

[SacredRaccoon]

I would give Bethesda all the money and tell them what I would like to have as features in a new Elder Scrolls game, which only comes out 1 time, naturally for me, Muahahaha...

Or I would buy a real Waggelton B. Tallylicker from Bulletsorm, Big Toys for Big Boys I say. ^^

 

[Shakomaru]

get that software I need, acquire a very large sapphire to carve into a sword, and set the rest aside for teh college.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

Move to Paris, open the World's Library and invite the most brilliant minds in science to work for me. Give them the funds to research whatever the Hell they want.

Alternative fuels
Green technology
Space and Oceanic Exploration
Medicine
Genetics
Botany
Chemistry
Physics
Mathematics
Philosophy
Politics

I do not give a shit what their results say. Their knowledge is free. Everything they discover is in the public domain. I have the resources. The only stipulation is that their research must be in the name of advancing humanity.

While the scientists are busy at work, I'd stock my Library with all the world's knowledge in every medium and language I possibly could. History, science, politics, culture. Anything which adds to the sum of human knowledge would have a place in my halls. It would all be there for anyone to access. I'd open branches in as many countries as possible. I'd broadcast it over the radio and on television and from satellites in space.

Every branch would contain a university which offers free classes for farming techniques, forestry, water management, basic healthcare, etc. There would be a free clinic offering prenatal care and vaccinations staffed by local medical students and graduates. The campus would also offer free-rides to a number of students each year interested in science, medicine, education, and engineering. Requirements for joining would include 4 years of service locally, 3 years nationally, and 3 years internationally. I say internationally because nobody in humanity is insular. Everyone from the most remote tribesman to the leaders of the world's leading nations are connected.

It would be so grand that people would say Fuck the Library of Alexandria. It's a dump. They would call the Library of Baghdad a dirty magazine stand in comparison.

I would do it all anonymously. While this is going on, I would be living in the South of France.

 

[BoredDragon]

The first things I would do would be buy a decent sized TV, an even better computer, and get the 3-game plan from gamefly. After that, I would probably use it to fund a series of videos my friends and I always talking about making, but never do because we don't have time. They involve us as a supergenius, a master of magic, and a guy sentenced to make sure we don't cause another apocalypse living together.

 

[JET1971]

Do like the rich do, invest it all and not pay taxes on it and live off the interest that gets taxed when uninvest it... or enough of the interest to maintain my current lifestyle.

for what the OP said assuming most of it was given to charity... my charity would be to buy as many companies as possible and sell them to the non managment employees for $1 each.

 

[Aimless Flea]

Best. Gaming. Computer. Evar.
Then buy everything on steam and put the rest of the money in a swimming pool.

 

[Esotera]

Buy a gigantic lab for my awesome genetic modification experiments, and finally create working versions of all 150 original pokemon. Also, lots of space super-structures. Preferably a ringworld, but I'd settle for a spacestation.

 

[Moronical]

Near unlimited eh? Finish college. Buy a huge land somewhere in the city and build an apartment or housing for the homeless. Make temporary housing for people living in bum houses and ask permission to renovate their houses. Give millions to charity. See how my friends (jk, I mean people I know) are doing and give monetary support if they need it. Buy all of the console and the best gaming rig plus all the games on Steam.

 

[RaNDM G]

Nearly unlimited supply you say? I'd buy Brazil.

What? Brazil is a nice place.

 

[Lawyer105]

Exactly, its the internet, I don't give a damn, why do you?

Hang on a minute... you asked a nonsensical, logically impossible question. I applied the internet beat-stick to it.

So far, so standard.

Then, you complain that I'm taking it too seriously and call me anal (technically an insult, and a warnable offence in these forums).

And then, to top it all, you actually claim that I'm the one overreacting?

Hypocritical, much, hmm?

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Exactly, its the internet, I don't give a damn, why do you?

Hang on a minute... you asked a nonsensical, logically impossible question. I applied the internet beat-stick to it.

So far, so standard.

Then, you complain that I'm taking it too seriously and call me anal (technically an insult, and a warnable offence in these forums).

And then, to top it all, you actually claim that I'm the one overreacting?

Hypocritical, much, hmm?

Don't avoid the question. I'll ask it again. Why do you care?