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      technically if you woke up with $1 billion you can spend $1 and no longer be a billionaire, with $999 million

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    I have this dream of building my own little socialist company town. where like, instead of people scraping by, we all get universal healthcare and walkable, tree-lined streets.

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    paying lobbyists to right for right to repair and privacy laws in the US, and bringing data brokers and patent trolls into never ending litigation.

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    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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      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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    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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    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.