let's see, where to start.
First, I would take a bunch of money and invest in voice recognition software in order to get the stuff off the ground. I want to be able to at least be able to wake up in the morning mumbled I want coffee and have a robotic arm hand it to me. Or something of that sort. (Mostly, I want to dictation software that I don't have to look over, constantly).

Then I'm going to buy a jet pack. Because yes they do exist and they are rather cheap from a rich man's perspective.

Then I'm probably going to use my money to find ways to entertain myself.

Definitely starting a game developer/publisher. I would certainly recruit talented indie devs and give them funding and resources to produce great games, at the same time starting my own selfish projects and driving them to perfection using HUGE BUDGETS, and dead interns.

Probably dump serious funds into space technology, travel, and exploration. Mostly robotic.

Depending on how many billions, I feel like I would try helping out Africa, up to and including feeding it all and giving it whatever infrastructure it needs to support itself without getting fucked by the first world.

I would do ridiculous shit locally, like buy out entire inventories of stores on Friday night, just to ruin people's saturday morning shopping plans.

I would build a fully functioning mecha, and since there are no laws governing mecha, I would travel around the city I choose to reside in with it. Which is any city, because I probably own several at this point.

I would make the world's biggest grilled cheese sandwich, but I would blow the previous record out of the water. I want bread and cheese based stocks to explode upward due to the size of this grilled cheese sandwich, and have it affect the tilt of the planet. Of course, the resulting environmental disaster due to a giant rotting grilled cheese sandwich would plunge those industries into their own micro-recessions.

I would research less destructive construction methods for solar panels, then build those clean solar panels everywhere, including all over the buildings I own, and I imagine I own a lot of buildings.

I'd pay my bills, save for college, a few grand for friends and family, and charity.
 

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Is this hypothetical? Or is this one of those, "My, um, 'friend' wanted to know..."

Since I'd totally give it to a cool forum-goer whose name rhymes with BarDeeBeeBemon.

I'd save it. Then I'd calculate how long this money can last me. Then from there I'd distribue the money towards varse different expences ranged from very important to semi important. Then if this amount of money is a consistent anual monthly payment I'd take 10% of it and use it for casual stuff that's not needed. If not then the rest would go towards savings.

Buy everything, and in the case of stuff I couldn't afford I would then buy it on credit and use credit from a different bank to buy the first bank, continuing this credit recursion until I own everything ever.

Nothing would be different, unless I got bored . . .

Boring answers are not for this thread.
 

Around 4 million is enough to live off of monthly dividends etc. 10 million is easily set for life and a single billion is 1000 times that.

Also some of these answers are straight up impossible even with the vast fortunes of our unforgivably boring elite class. I'm looking for shit Michael Bloomberg could do instead of being douche mayor.

Anyway, one of the things I'd do is get that Phoenix Wright musical localized in all the big languages and have local theater groups put it on. There'd probably be a lot of movies, plays, & video games that would be ridiculous awesome yet dubious from a business perspective that I'd be glad to lose money on.

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Hire an orchestra to play music for me at home. Fuck iPods I got world class live music 24/7.

Also fund TV shows and video games for my own enjoyment. Like Community not getting season 4? Give Sony 2 billion and tell em to make another 5 seasons.

Also distort the political process using my wealth. Sculpt a horrifyingly powerful media empire and become the second global Australian media monarch. Though I'd be left wing.


Oh also hire live TV spots across every network then perform the Aristocrats. Then pay the fines with my walking around money. Basically what Tracey did on that episode when he found out about advertising money and FCC fines.

Then when I die, get all of my 100s of billions turned into gold then irradiate it to fuck the economy massively.

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Neat, I didn't know that TF2 sentries were sold....that's a sentry gun...right? :ohdear:

Fifth already got this right. Being Batman is the only right answer.