What would you do with it?
Share with loved ones
18.1%
83
Give some to charity
14.2%
65
Spend it mostly on yourself
37.3%
171
Other(specify)
30.3%
139
458 votes
| 2 billion to all whom I own my life to. 10 billion to the bank. 10 billion to secure the rest of my life. 5 billion to start a business to keep myself occupied. 5 billion to the incinerator. |
FrosteaJan 17, 2008 6:32 AM
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| It's around 16.2 billion pounds sterling... A ridiculous amount of money, almost a tenth of my coutry's nominal GDP. ...I'd start a world-wide party with free drinks, snacks and a goddamn big TV show. And then I'd hope the feeling of reckless freedom soaring through the world, the feeling of unity and siblinghood, would lead to a better (read: anarcho-communist) society. Or at least it would lead to one day of universal hangover. |
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crowslayer91 said: buy that silly canadian S(ex)Y over there as a hooker. you'll have to fight me for that :D |
| Put it in the bank and forget I have the money. That much money would only corrupt your mind. |
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| Other: All of the above. That's enough money to share, donate, and indulge myself with. |
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itainteazy said: crowslayer91 said: buy that silly canadian S(ex)Y over there as a hooker. you'll have to fight me for that :D ^_^ yay! My big daddy will protect me from that evil slayer guy! I've played too much bioshock this week |
oneandonliee said: I think... I'd buy myself a Gundam. Gundam model? No, no. Gundam. But seriously, 32 billion is way too much money for an one individual to have power over, and it's not realistically easy to spend. I remember for a fifth grade math project, I had to "spend" one million dollars. That assignment gave me a mad headache. Gundam please. ^^ haha want 2 realy fast ways to lose money? 1 Tax.. just wave the money around and im sure they will start knocking on your door sooner or later.. 2 Lottery chances of winning the lottery is generaly smaller then the chance of getting hit by lightning <.< |
| Thinking about it seriously...*thinks hard* I'll create an Evil Organization to take over the world. I'll have lots of minions dressed in black and a cool logo that I can put on everything. And I'll have giant robots, genetically engineered monsters and a bishie harem. That would be cool. Oh and I'll buy Finland. |
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| start research labs for all kinds of stuff from invisibile potions to gundam-like robots and.. maybe a new computer like.. the best one EVER made |
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| id prob keep a billion, which is more than enough to live off of. the rest... some to family, friends, perhaps.... then various charities. but with the billion.... i would get a really nice penthouse go on an insane shopping spree buy a souped up desktop computer hire a cook. |
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| Buy the licenses for many popular anime and just keep them so there wont be a release just to piss people off :D Then I'd buy the licenses of a few Toei live action stuff and give them to August Ragone and get them R1 released. I'd give a homeless man 2 mil to cut off both of his thumbs, fry and sautay them, add a few spices, and eat them. Then I'd pretty much buy anything I wanted on Amazon, Ebay, Deep Discount, whatever. Also I'd use money to fund the Gatchaman movie and fund the Robotech movie |
| i keep thinking about if i won money, if i would stay in school or not. i might just want to live a remote and really relaxing life somewhere in paradise. but maybe living normally and continuing my higher education might be a better idea. who knows. |
oneandonliee said: LOL. Nice.I think... I'd buy myself a Gundam. Gundam model? No, no. Gundam. I'd pay off my student loans, buy a decent house and help out my family and friends. I don't even think that'd spend more than 10 million. Then I'd probably give it all to someone to spend for me (ie: charities, people, etc). That much money would make me ill. |
| make myself a life size Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann. edit: i wonder who i can get to pilot it...hmm |
ArekkusuJan 24, 2008 6:29 PM
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| Wow 32 billion? The real question is what wouldn't you be able to do with that amount of money? |
| After spending some of it on myself (anime, manga, video games, a small country, etc.), I would share it with my family. After that, I really don't know. These kinds of things take a while for me to think about, and I don't feel like thinking about it right now. =\ |
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Zarin said: There is no way I can answer the question instantly without time to really think it through. For that reason I would transfer 31 billion into a decent investment and live off a small amount of the remaining billion for five or more years while studying at uni, majoring in engineering/science and doing some business stuff on the side. My choices of study would most likely relate to space and off-Earth residence, which is currently one of my dreams. While doing this I will still be continuing to work on personal/OSS programming projects so that by the end of whatever graduate study I end up finishing I'll also have very potent software engineering skills (Which would be around 15-20 years experience at the time). After the studying period is finished I would have enough engineering, science, business, electronics and computing knowledge to be able to make the most efficient choice in how to improve all of mankind's technology with only a measly 31 billion. $14.06 billion - Microsoft's net income in a single year ($51.12 billion in revenue) $16.80 billion - NASA's annual budget Hmm that seems like one of the best ideas I've read, its selfless and smart. I only think one more thing should be added: instead of deciding how to spend the money alone, I would use a bit of the money to pay frequent meetings between the greatest minds in the planet for say about a year, so the investment plan could be very thourougly analised from all angles and an unbiased decision could be made that would bring the most benefit possible using the remaining money. And a small thought about the thread... maybe it'd be psychologically threatening to get so much money at once. In a split second, you'd be able to do almost anything conceivable for a human being without even trying. Mental breakdown would be a step away >_< |
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| 16 billion in stocks and savings 100 million to start my own anime licensor 1 billion for buying an estate in Venice, Japan, Florida, England, and Australia 5 billion so my parents could retire in luxury 9 billion to the creation of my own theme park chain And I'd send the rest in the form of one million checks to people I randomly pick out of phone books. |
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| Hey I just remembered that there exists a program on FX channel called "How to blow a billion". The most I've seen them spending at once was on a private island in the Carribeans, it was huge and there a mansion already built there. It cost a "whopping" 40 million dollars. So, unless you plan on buying one of those for each of your relatives, you'd probably die before before you even get to spend the first billion. I think the only possible way to use it all up would be on VERY bad investing strategies. |
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Nigma said: oneandonliee said: I think... I'd buy myself a Gundam. Gundam model? No, no. Gundam. But seriously, 32 billion is way too much money for an one individual to have power over, and it's not realistically easy to spend. I remember for a fifth grade math project, I had to "spend" one million dollars. That assignment gave me a mad headache. Gundam please. ^^ haha want 2 realy fast ways to lose money? 1 Tax.. just wave the money around and im sure they will start knocking on your door sooner or later.. 2 Lottery chances of winning the lottery is generaly smaller then the chance of getting hit by lightning <.< 3. Hire Bill Gates as your maid. |
yuuko said: Thinking about it seriously...*thinks hard* I'll create an Evil Organization to take over the world. I'll have lots of minions dressed in black and a cool logo that I can put on everything. And I'll have giant robots, genetically engineered monsters and a bishie harem. That would be cool. Oh and I'll buy Finland. you should play the game evil genius |
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| Buy a dinosaur obviously |
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| with 32 billion I'll quit my scholl, buy largest house, and buy PS3. I don't know what to do with the rest, maybe I'll hire top financial company advisor to double it more *o* |
Neko-Lazor said: Buy a dinosaur obviously That made my day. ROFL |
| I'd do 10billion in investments, ranging from low risk to high risk. I'd donate 10 billion to some worthy charities. Probably give my school like 10-15million. As far as items I would buy. Penthouse in Tokyo, as well as a nice house in rural Japan, maybe down by Kyoto. I'd build a nice house in Cleveland to live in, as well as one in Aspen. Real estate is always a good investment, so I'm not too worried about having 3 houses and 1 penthouse. I'd for sure hook my mom and dad up. Take 1 billion and start up some llc's. Put 1 billion in an offshore bank account. I'd pretty much buy all the toys and gadgets I'd ever want. Including a jet, and boat. Even after I've spent and put away all that money, there'd still be like 7 billion left, which I would use to... I have no idea? 7,000,000,000.00 is an insane ammount of money. I'd probably walk down the street and just give people a stack of 100's. |
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| id buy an island |
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| Go out for steak. |
| I would FIRE MAH LAZAAAA |
| I'd buy lots of houses around the world! Specifically in Paris, where I'd join the haute couture elite 8D Of course, I'd give most of it to various charities and organisations ... but I'd be sure that there was plenty of money for myself! :p Oh, and I'd buy this :p |
| Well put away 30 billion of it and spend the 2 freely by moving to japan and so on |
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Demon-Foxy said: Go out for steak. thats guna be one big steak for 32billion lol :P |
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| i would pay millions of works to build me a dominoes castle so i could have the pleasure of poking it into mass destruction. |
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| rofl that would be fun |
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| ...Who would you bet against? |
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| True. There must be only 10 or so people with at least that much money. And chances are they wouldn't be as crazy as you lol =p If you won, what would change? Instead of having an amazingly gigantic amount of money, you'd have an unimaginably gigantic amount of money. How different is that? Boring fact behind the thought - As numbers get bigger and bigger, you are induced to make what looks like crude approximations, like x approximately equals 2x (actually this is true for numbers much, much, MUCH larger than 32 billion, but you get the picture) |
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Chavez said: I would FIRE MAH LAZAAAA pssh. you don't need 32 BILLION dollars to do that Hirako_Shinji said: why would people invest 32 billion dollars? ITS 32 BILLION DOLLARS!! You dont NEED anymore! LOL i totally agree with you if i had 32 billion dollars, i would spend it. all. |
| I'd shamelessly spend it all on myself. Err, I'd give away most of it I guess, to sate my need of feeling somewhat important by doing some sort of difference. I'd probably also develop paranoia and thusly use up as much money as possible, probably all through charity so everyone would get to know that I no longer possess any such money. I'd still keep a couple of millions though, and use them to publish a couple of books and fulfill other similiar childish dreams. |
| it would be rely hard to spend 32 billion on your self if u think about it.. how much stuff would you have to buy to use it all.. |
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ranax said: it would be rely hard to spend 32 billion on your self if u think about it.. how much stuff would you have to buy to use it all.. I disagree. There are plenty of things to buy that are worth a lot. Whether you want to or not is another question. |
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| then thats not rely spe Faust721 said: ranax said: it would be rely hard to spend 32 billion on your self if u think about it.. how much stuff would you have to buy to use it all.. I disagree. There are plenty of things to buy that are worth a lot. Whether you want to or not is another question. then thats not rely on your self. thats just spending 32 billion to get rid of 32 billion |
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