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[–] 168 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Pay my taxes and not rape children.

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  • [+] 53 points 7 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 93 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Turn myself in to a millionaire

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    [–] 43 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Basically spend it all making militant resistance cells around the United States, enable them to operate independently via sourcing cnc machines, 3D printers, and hobbyist electronics, then provide financial incentives to targeting other billionaires' assets or persons and/or hate groups and right wing think tanks.

    This will continue until I'm arrested, run out of funds, or succeed.

    ....then I'd buy a sammich.

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  • [–] 41 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    What I do would be redacted here, but when I am done there would be no more billionaires.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It's fine, this isn't Reddit.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    No, it's not. Posts encouraging violence (or mentioning that they will kill X) is against the community guidelines..

    Source:

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  • [–] 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    He'd probably wonder why I was in his house

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago

    Hit snooze.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    99M in a trust fund for me, my immediate family, extended family and friends. We would live relatively modest and give generously.

    901M would go to a wide assortment of charities and causes:

    • Fund my local foodbank for the next 50 years. Perhaps even a dynasty trust.
    • Tackle youth unemployment and unmet community needs through investing in non-market solutions. E.g. build greenhouses with raised beds in urban brownfield and greenfield property, hire local people to grow resilient local foods and donate them throughout the community. Some local old age homes had some complaints about food quality and budget and they wanted things like fresh ripe tomatoes. I'd given them 3 seasons worth for free and pay for the equipment, labour, insurance out of pocket. Local youth could get high school credits, jobs not just gardening, but designing and improve closed ag systems, plumbing, deep winter greenhouse design and engineering, logistics, everything. Good experience and spending money. Maybe turn into a market career for some.

    Build a few multiplexes as high quality PassiveHousePlus and operate as self funded charity built and operated using only local labour for womans & homeless shelters

    I have a few friends in social services and I guarenfuckentee a shitload of orphans and foster kids and poor kids supervised by children services would get new toys, clothes, shoes, bedding, pillows, christmas presents from a bad ass santa, art supplies, comic books, tuition, books, enrichment activity fees and more. Some have this through foster parents and public systems. Way too many don't.

    I can't help everyone and even this money won't last long, but Imma go out swinging hard.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago

    It depends on which billionaire I’m supposedly waking up. Sounds like a shitty job though.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago

    Buy up all the media outlets, especially Fox, and ACTUALLY turn them into progressive propaganda outlets.

    Once actual progressives are in power, Lobby for government with the teeth to break up my big media empire monopoly and prevent a new one from forming.

    Make a trust in each state to have local news outlets with good journalists.

    Fund something to help find and stomp out propaganda bot/slave centers in other countries.

    Lobby to regulate the fuck out of AI to stop its use as a programmable propaganda slop machine.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    Hire people to clean the house. White house.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    First thing?

    Probably buy my wife something nice.

    Next, I would love to upgrade and spoil the homeless shelter behind my work. I always fantasize about being able to afford food, socks and blankets to distribute.

    First selfish thing? Build a new computer.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    Probably fuck some kids to blend in

    /s

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    I'd take my family and leave behind the shithole that is the United States. God, I hate it here because of Republicans.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately, there are assholes everywhere.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Maybe, but at least other countries prosecute their rich and powerful when said rich and powerful person rapes kids/steals classified documents. Also, every other developed country is able to ensure their government is funded while giving every person health insurance.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    First thing? Probably panic. Second thing? Probably try to wake myself up. Third thing? Probably try to find some rational way that I just got isekai’ed as a billionaire.

    After it finally sank in, I’d probably consider lobbying for things before I lose touch with where I used to be. Right to repair, universal healthcare, UBI, etc…

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    Turn my country the fuck around so that public servants represent people and decisions are made to improve the lives of people.

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  • [+] 13 points 7 months ago (5 children)
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    Maybe pay 500 musicians (generally my choice of music) x $20/hr x 3000 hours (about 1.5 person-years) (= $30 million) to write and record anything they want, but it has to be original and released into the public domain.

    Exceptions could be made for derivatives of music already in the public domain.

    Occasionally I might check on them for if they are composing, or composing and recording; and originality.

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    I might pay for novelty songs such as hard rock and heavy metal on horns; Suicide's Ghost Rider but replace synths with tuba and harmonica; nonagenarian socialist to do Kid Rock's Bawitdaba; Trump and Epstein look-a-likes do Nugent's Little Miss Dangerous; etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Start strategically: just buy your way into overturning money in politics. Fire with fire baby!!!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    With a billion dollars?! I'm crying sad tears and laughing at the same time.

    2 billion dollars of PAC money was spent in the 2024 presidential election.

    That's a single year. One election cycle.

    In order to overturn Citizen's United, you would need at least a couple of Supreme Court justices, too. So you need enough money to elect uncorrupted politicians to Congress, so that they can approve judges who are also not corrupt.

    I think people HUGELY underestimate how much money flows into politics now that PACs are legal. Why the fuck else would Trump suddenly get interested in politics at his late stage in life?

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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    1010 mountain bikes, 1000 to give away; a canoe; a little propeller-driven Cessna airplane; and a good non-Telsa non-Chinese electric car without the electronic-digital-internet-AI-bullshit frills might bring more and better satisfaction.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Lots of folks would get their debt paid off.

    Lots of folks would get fed real good.

    Lots of folks would get seed money to make their thing or do their art/thing/whatever

    Lots of folks would get to do some sick drugs.

    Etc.

    I’d just spend it all until I spread the wealth around.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Guillotine myself. I can't let myself be a hypocrite lol

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    I'd quit my job, buy a small house for my partner and I and give enough to my family that they wouldn't have to worry about money again.

    With the rest, I'd set up a trust that donates 1% per year in microgrants to free software maintainers who apply to it. Similar to NLnet, but with no strings attached beyond continuing to maintain the project.

    Then, with all my free time, I'd also work on free software.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Destroy capitalism by out competing everyone.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Dude right wouldn't it be wild if instead of taking as many nickels dimes and pennies as humanly and economically possible for any and every single purchase you just took like, still an insane life changing amount that would make you rich and were able to provide for your entire family on and put everyone else out of business?

    "Turns out instead of taking 80% profit margins I got 30% instead and that's how I put Amazon out of business" meanwhile you're still able to be stinking rich with more than any human could possibly ever spend in 100 lifetimes.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Cocaine then a sub to check out Titanic. Pretty standard, really.

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    I'd lobby politicians into bombing Israel, I think they need a turn.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Iran's doing that already.

    Cutting off Israel will hurt the genociders even more.

    If you're American, maybe run for President in 2028 on a "No to Israel" platform; put $100 million into it. Don't scare fellow Americans with extremist stuff, but feel free to insult your rivals. Maybe insult MAGAts as dumb fucks who'd take a bullet for Trump and get nothing.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not a fan of cannibalism, but I guess waking up a billionaire would make for a good breakfast opportunity.

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  • Well if he woke up obviously the first stab didn't kill him so I'd stab him again.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Two thousand girls at the same time.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Hire a fukn lawyer D:

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Call a tax lawyer/pay taxes, call a financial planner, and figure out what other calls I'd need to make to set up and fund a couple of charities.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Get me, my family, and my friends the fuck out of the US

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    I'd shut the fuck up. Pay off my house and maybe add an addition to where I'm at. Same with some relatives. Fix my Subaru the way I want it, buy a catterham.

    Start buying people's debt for pennies on the dollar and cancelling it.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Probably yell WOOHOO.

    Next is quit my job.

    A new off-grid house. We have a lot of power outages here every winter.

    An older used car (I want nothing to do with a new car which are basically rolling spyware).

    Start helping the worse off in my area such as the homeless and those living below the poverty line.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Put him to sleep agai, with a brick.

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    Begin process of leaving the USA.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Same as I do every morning. A big mug of coffee and a big shit.

    No amount of money would change that.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Leave the US for a country that hasn't turned into a dictatorship yet.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Buy a house far far away and leave this cesspool I currently call home.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago
    1. Buy the house for my kids I’ve been saving for
    2. Set us all a reasonable allowance and a rainy day fund so we never have to worry
    3. Find a way to donate the majority to underserved families of children with disabilities
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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    If i woke up a billionaire, I would tell him to pay some taxes to avoid the guillotine in a couple years.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Take biggest loan(s) and sell everything I own. Buy big storage space with wall full of leaf blowers and blow the money for the rest of my life.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago
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    I would invest it. Every year, I would withdraw the profits, so that my net worth stayed approximately the same.

    I would throw an event in a different city each year.

    I would get that money ("earned" from doing nothing more than investing it) IN CASH.

    All the cash would be loaded up in a plane and dropped in a public place. It would be a spectacle. No advertising needed, word of mouth and social media would be more than enough.

    At each event, I would remind people that the money dropping from the sky is merely the crumbs from a single billionaire. Money that I did not earn. Money that was taken from the fruits of their labor and added to my stock portfolio.

    I would ask them to imagine how much more money billionaires are hoarding. I would then bid them a fond farewell until next year.

    Oh, and also, maybe a nice condo in southeast Asia. Thailand, maybe. Somewhere chill and fairly inexpensive. Not because I deserve a nicer place, but because fuckyouallI'mrichbitchstillnotatotaldickheadthough.

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  • Take a day off?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    These comments prove billionaires are hoarders with a mental illness. Nobody here is looking to make more billions.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    True, but none of us have actually been tested. How many of us could taste real power and walk away?

    The closest proxy is maybe lottery winners. Some invest, some fall flat on spending orgies. Almost none walk away.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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    You know I think about this all the time. A lot of those rich fucks are on the hook for meetings and bulshit all the time. If I had to wake up at 430 am every morning to get ready for meetings would it even be worth it to be rich?

    We'll.... Yes, probably lol but still it makes me feel better about it. At least I can kind of choose myown schedule with my current job. Not rich but I do get to sleep in sometimes.

    And sometimes, every once in a while, that is priceless.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Get the fuck out of this country

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    I'd probably put an entire university worth of professors on payroll, along with an army of neurodivergence specialists to make it so I could actually make use of them. If I had functionally infinite money I could become so fucking gigabrain. The saving the world stuff should go without saying since we are all ensouled beings unlike the ghoulish husks who actually have billions of dollars.

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