The Will
 

Your relative dies and leaves you 8,000,000USD.
You get a written statement that you can have the money to spend as you want as long as you meet these conditions:
1) You cannot spend it in any way on anyone you know personally.
2) Within Gaining the funds you have 10 years to spend all of the cash and by contract spend them on non-refundable assets, returning of the assets into money in any way is in breach of the contract of the will and you will get in a heap of legal trouble.
3) At least 10% must go to a single charity.


So NPF, if this happened to you, how would you play this out?

I donate the ten percent to an AIDS charity or something.

I spend the rest on building my own micro-nation.

Ten percent goes to AIDS research or cancer or whatever, the rest goes to fixing the ALARMING DEFICIT OF JETPACKS IN THIS MODERN WORLD.

And I don't mean those pussy huge-ass 30 second flight ones. I mean sustainable flight, fairly lightweight, sci-fi movie jetpacks that everyone knows and knew we should have by now, but we don't because scientists wasted time on shit like hybrid cars and fuckin' ipods.

Wait wait wait.

If I can't spend it on others, can I spend it on things for myself that others would eventually end up using? For example, let's say that I buy a house; is no one else allowed to ever even set foot into the house? Would it be considered against the rules to pay my friends/family to work within said house?

I'm curious what would be considered charity. For example, I would donate a good 90% of the money to City Year, a non-profit organization that I've worked for; however, I don't know if they are considered a charity or not, as I don't know what definition we're going by >.>

Make a pile of 8 million 1 dollar bills.

Apply gasoline.

Burn it.

That's assuming the 'you can't spend it on anyone you know personally' includes myself.

You can spend it on yourself.

I guess it's impossible to see any of the money in cash, meaning you can only use a card to pay for anything so you can't just dig a pit and dig a little sideways alcove near the bottom and hide the money. This is almost as contrived as the plot in "Go For Broke". But I'll buy it.

And then I'll buy an artist. I mean buy one, like a slave or a sports team. Figure it'll take less than half the money to get them for life, even a really good one. I'm thinking David Mack. I'll buy a big house where we both can live and make comics together. And when the ten years are up I'll donate the balance to Save the Children.

Send ten percent to cancer research.

Send a sizeable chunk to support various art and theatre organizations.

Send another sizeable chunk to local animal shelters.

Set up some kind of charitable organization to help relieve poverty and hunger in third world countries.

Send another chunk to scientific research to build me a fully-funtional Chozo varia suit because dammit I want one really badly! :(

Buy a house. Prepay the government the property tax value for the next -as long as possible-.

Receive receipt.

can the 10% to 'a single charity', include the whole 'donate to webcomics' thing? cause I would totally dump it into Randy Mulholland's account.

Otherwise, I dunno, probably finding a cure for testicular cancer. Specifically that. Fuck all other cancers. Find THAT cure first.

Normally I'd invest in high dividend stocks but that's illegal.
 

Revised plan:

Hookers.

Lots of them.