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What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was?
#7765599 - 12/16/07 01:34 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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At one time in his career Bill Gates owned a hundred billion dollars. That is a lot of money 
Now suppose that by some miracle you became a thousand times richer than Bill Gates ever was. Suppose you miraculously became so rich that you had a hundred trillion dollars.
$100.000.000.000.000
Thats an insane amount of money. You could make a hundred million people a millionaire with that kind of cash. You could buy a country. If you still have 60 years left to your life, you could spend $50.000 every second of every night and day for the rest of your life. It's enough to make your eyes water 
Suppose you have that near unlimited amount of money at your disposal.. What would you do with it? The objective here is to find use for all of it.
What would you do?
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7765627 - 12/16/07 01:43 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Raise a private military and take over the world?
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: circularvortex]
#7765645 - 12/16/07 01:49 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Brag to Bill Gates about it.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: circularvortex]
#7765660 - 12/16/07 01:52 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Start a "Santa" charity. I don't know if there is anything like it out there, but I thought about it while I was high. Basically a large charity organization that gets letters written to Santa and gives the kids what they want for Christmas, provided they are decent children ( take into account the child's grades and home life via referrals from relatives, teachers ect.) There would also have to be a gift limit of like 300 or something, but if I had that kind of money I could get the thing off the ground easy.
I would also smoke a lot of weed all day and think of other crazy ways to enrich people's lives.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7765676 - 12/16/07 01:55 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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id buy all the big corporations and then purposely bankrupt them.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: LayYouIn]
#7765700 - 12/16/07 02:00 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'd use the money to make giant solar panel/microwave power stations in space to give people loads of energy that'd be pretty clean and pretty cheap.
Irrigation projects
Replacing cotton with hemp plants
Buying a fleet of submarines to destroy whaling boats
Buying and then scrapping the worlds millitaries.
Farming equipment for everybody
medicine for everybody
And a solid gold toilet.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Visionary Tools]
#7765861 - 12/16/07 02:45 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Buying a fleet of submarines to destroy whaling boats
LOL you got the eccentric trillionaire part down 
What I would do, hmm.. I'd try to solve some of the major problems of the world. Things I'm thinking of right off the bat is helping the Third World develop itself out of the poverty abyss, I'd extensively fund certain energy alternatives research (such as deuterium fusion) to help ease the world away from the upcoming energy crisis and I'd extensively fund our first steps into space, and towards establishing a autonomous moon/mars colony.
Thats just some big ideas.
I'd make all positive people in my life financially independent by laying a big stack of gold bullion on each of them, and that aside some spending money.
As to the Shroomery, think a sizable donation or two and annual worldwide gatherings in Holland, all expenses paid stuff open to all members, to be flown in businessclass 
A bit of decadence won't hurt no?
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7765878 - 12/16/07 02:51 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I would buy every single shopping cart from every single grocery store in the world, then use them to create a gigantic mosaic picture on the moon. It would depict Donkey Kong giving George Carlin a handjob.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7765891 - 12/16/07 02:55 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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buy the shroomery and ban you
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: KingOftheThing]
#7765925 - 12/16/07 03:02 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Shroomery's not for sale! 
I might pay off a portion of my country's debt (though all the taxes I'd be paying! ), use as much money as possible to influence politics toward my ideals. I'd also buy land in various places around the world, an island for the holidays, make sure all my properties were running off 100% clean energy, allow 185 x 185 pixel avatars on the Shroomery, extend greater generousity towards friends and family, contribute towards infrastructure and education development in poorer nations... and probably a few thousand other things.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: geokills]
#7765946 - 12/16/07 03:07 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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dose america with lsd
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Coaster]
#7765951 - 12/16/07 03:08 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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What if America doesn't want LSD?
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7765966 - 12/16/07 03:12 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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they want it they just dont no it lol
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7765974 - 12/16/07 03:14 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I would have to start a MUMF.
Massive Underground Mushroom Farm.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: opensaysme]
#7765983 - 12/16/07 03:16 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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y do it underground i remeber a tek a while back of some fool who could fill an entire bucket with spores then he said he should just dump it out of a heli ovr a forrest that sounds magnificent lol
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Coaster]
#7766006 - 12/16/07 03:21 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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liquid lsd + water supply = crazy placebo effect
ive been around a few people, but the whole world! i think we'd need to shut down the roads/jobs for a day at least
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7766027 - 12/16/07 03:29 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ruin the world economy.
Because that completely would anyway.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Konyap]
#7766037 - 12/16/07 03:31 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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invite all my buddies and all the ladies that wanted to come live on my private islands. party for free 24/7, drugs everywhere, private army guarding it.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Konyap]
#7766040 - 12/16/07 03:32 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Id run for president.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7766067 - 12/16/07 03:40 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i'd control everything.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#7766092 - 12/16/07 03:47 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Pull a Mansa Musa
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7766098 - 12/16/07 03:49 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I would buy a small island in the carribean. One with atleast a small freshwater pond or something. Then I would build a cabin on it. And buy a boat that could get me from the island to the mainland (wherever that would be) which I wouldn't use very often, just incase though. I would buy whatever other things I would need (no electricity) for my island to be pretty much self-sustainable. Then I would save half of the remaining money (possibly in the form of silver) and give the other half to Buddhist monasteries in southeast asia.
EDIT: This would not be a private "party island" with lots of cool shit that would get me tons of pussy. I would have it so I'm living in the most simple way I possibly could. And I would be the only one to step foot on it.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: PyroBurns]
#7766123 - 12/16/07 03:55 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'd buy a mountain in a desolate wilderness area. I would hire miners to excavate a lavish hall inside with tunnels running in and out. Then, I would fill the hall with the remaining money in varied gold and gem treasures. Then I would sleep on it day and night.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: TODAY]
#7766134 - 12/16/07 03:57 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Drugs.
And thats it.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: TODAY]
#7766187 - 12/16/07 04:08 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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TODAY said: I'd buy a mountain in a desolate wilderness area. I would hire miners to excavate a lavish hall inside with tunnels running in and out. Then, I would fill the hall with the remaining money in varied gold and gem treasures. Then I would sleep on it day and night.
you should genetically engineer a dragon of some sort to protect it.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#7766219 - 12/16/07 04:15 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah, a dragon would be for sure the best. I suppose I could dig a trench around the mountain and fill it with alligators and between the trench and the (closed and locked) gates of the mountain I could let loose lions and hyenas and hire jewish accountants to periodically inventory my stash.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#7766244 - 12/16/07 04:20 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i'd give it away.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7766395 - 12/16/07 04:59 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'd definitely help the third world become independent from the clutches of the "industrialized" societies.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: dshroom]
#7766424 - 12/16/07 05:10 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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dshroom said: i'd give it away.
man wut a lame response haahhahahahaha
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Coaster]
#7766492 - 12/16/07 05:34 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i would drop blotter from huge ass planes all over the world.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7766509 - 12/16/07 05:36 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'd create a space program to compete with NASA(or just fund/donate to nasa) and extensively fund them based on progressive space exploration efforts/research/etc...
I'd buy exuberant amounts of land to preserve wildlife and nature, in general.
I'd raise the reimbursement of recycled cans and so on by a nickel to encourage people to recylce. (Then I'd stop after maybe half a year) (that's a lot of money but I feel it would get people in the groove of recycling then I'd pull away)
I would fund research in solar energy and electric cars, perhaps even subsidize electric car companies so that the cars would be cheaper to the general public for a certain amount of time.
I'd create schools based on learning rather than competition, but still reserve parts of the school for competitive minds(but no cheating)(basically against the cut throat attitude) (No grades, just pass or failing... and they're not allowed to look at their scores) They must work together/develop comradery
Build Chuck Norris a home on my property and hang out with him every day.
With all this money, I would somehow form an alias and live in a regular home within a regular community and if I got to the point where I had a family then spend as much time as possible with them.
Oh and advocate drug EDUCATION instead of prevention.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Leanin]
#7766521 - 12/16/07 05:37 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i hope you win the lottery!
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Leanin]
#7766534 - 12/16/07 05:42 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Leanin said: i would drop blotter from huge ass planes all over the world.
I would love if something like that happened. For the sake of ridiculousness. It'd be amazing to see who survives.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Cracka_X]
#7766544 - 12/16/07 05:44 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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what ever happen to that guy who was suppose to travel around the us handing out free lsd?
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: desufnoC]
#7766555 - 12/16/07 05:46 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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nah then ppl have a choice, it's gotta be all or none. not this selective shit.
huge airplanes sounds key!
The dosing would be tricky
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Cracka_X]
#7766572 - 12/16/07 05:50 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i was just aking if anyone ever heard back from this guy. im pretty sure it was all fake.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7766816 - 12/16/07 06:53 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Donate most to medical research
Retire and play music for the rest of my life
Promote bands, make my own record label
Write
Have a shit ton of kids just because I can
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7766841 - 12/16/07 06:58 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I wouldn't do much actually. Build a nice place in the woods. Buy up tons of land around it,and make some private little fun roads.
Fund building hotrods. Drive them.
Build stuff to skate.
live life.
the rest would just be helping others,or whatever, I wouldn't even need a million to to life my dream,so whatever.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7766885 - 12/16/07 07:05 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'd dump it into Iraq. 
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Learyfan]
#7766904 - 12/16/07 07:10 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'd buy the federal reserve.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7766931 - 12/16/07 07:15 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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hey... I just made a thread about this... how did you get 3 pages of repsonses when i only got 2?
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7766962 - 12/16/07 07:22 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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2 chicks at the same time.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: darklcd]
#7766983 - 12/16/07 07:27 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#7767001 - 12/16/07 07:33 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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That's more money than one can accurately comprehend, but I will entertain your inquiry. Assuming that i just obtained this money with my current state of affairs i would pay off some loans of mine and my family members and closest friends. Then i would set them all up with decent trust funds and some investment money. Then I would give millions and millions to maps and a few other proreform orgs. I would also make it a top priority to help improve our educational system here in the states. I'm not sure how to go about doing that now, but i know it would include giving away a large amount of the $$$$$. So all in all philanthropy is the only thing a person w/ this amount of wealth should be doing.
*deposits 2 cents*
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#7767025 - 12/16/07 07:38 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i would have a few mansions filled with pussy for me and my friends to ravage. have about 5 wives that i have 5 kids with each.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#7767027 - 12/16/07 07:39 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I would get a business card with my name on it.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7768301 - 12/17/07 04:06 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i would invest it in gold, and silver.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Coaster]
#7768311 - 12/17/07 04:32 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Coaster said:
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dshroom said: i'd give it away.
man wut a lame response haahhahahahaha
ok, i'd give it to you.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: dshroom]
#7768394 - 12/17/07 06:38 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i'd build a city of the future.
you know, buy a plot of land somewhere reasonably safe and make it a city-state. then have archetects design something totally outragous and eco-friendly. then i'd give rediculous tax incentives to compassionate capitalist companies to make their headquarters there. the city would also have its own public non-profit shipping companies to make it even easier and cheaper for good companies to do worldwide business cheaply.
basically the whole plan would be to create a heaven for economically viable businesses that practiced high morality.
also i would make it so that celebrities couldn't visit without personal invites, hopefully make it a cool everybody wants to own a house there city, to further hype up the bussinesses there.
lots of publicly funded arts, experimental education. ect. a section of free artist and philosopher housing in exchange for doing public works.
all other funds would be used for mansion sized harems. except instead of like 5 wives, i'd have like 10,000.
also i would have my blood taken out, and my viens filled with liquid gold, and i would have my eyes replaced by the worlds largest diamonds, and my teeth would be plated with the rarest metals harvested from comets.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: truekimbo2]
#7768397 - 12/17/07 06:39 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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fuck i forgot, i would also make sure i got the very first thermo-optical camouflage, and then i would destroy all research on it.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Dreamer987]
#7768493 - 12/17/07 08:05 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i would invest it in gold, and silver.
Corner the markets right? Haha with that kind of money you might as well take over the entire markets of gold, silver, platinum, palladium and you'd still be swimming in cash.
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In 2005 the World Gold Council estimated total global gold supply to be 3,859 tonnes
Thats 120 million troy ounces, or at the current price it would be worth about 100 billion dollars, just 0.1% of your capital. (yes, at one time Bill Gates has as much money as the worth of all the gold in the world) You don't want all the gold in the world though, because then the worldwide gold trade would cease (no one has it but you) and what an ounce would be worth then would be anyone's guess. But let's say 25% of all the gold? (0.025% of your capital) yes, you'd definitely want that.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#7768519 - 12/17/07 08:22 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'd buy the government.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7768717 - 12/17/07 09:53 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I would defiantly buy a few nice houses, nice cars, and a lifetime supply of droogz.
Start my own medical research company, and use all that amazing technology I could obtain to actually do something meaningful. Save some lives, feed some hungry people, and maybe build some schools in some shit hole 3rd world country.
Build myself an underground bunker stocked with droogz, a shooting range, lots of guns, and lots of whores. Lots and lots of whores. I'd hire every single Vivid Girl to be my personal slaves.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: 2FiNiTe]
#7768851 - 12/17/07 10:32 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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make my friends and family millionaires make my own record label make my own movie company fund "important" research donate to "worthy" charitys own a trophy wife
*I like the mountain hall idea parches the moon and/or mars terraform another planet legalize it transfer my consciousness to a CPU (become immortal)
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7768934 - 12/17/07 10:57 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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After an initial travel/hedonism spree, I guess I'd turn to full-time philanthropy.
I'd start a relief organization of unprecedented size and influence. I'd work on developing industry and infrastructure in struggling areas.
I'd also build giant robots to fight each other in sanctioned competition. I'm talking like 50 feet tall or so
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7768942 - 12/17/07 10:58 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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WhiskeyClone said: I'd also build giant robots to fight each other in sanctioned competition. I'm talking like 50 feet tall or so
Badass idea! What was that movie back in the early 90's that they did just that, except they weren't autonomous they had pilots. That movie was sick!
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: 2FiNiTe]
#7768991 - 12/17/07 11:10 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I like the robot idea, but lets just bring back Gladiators. Get the folks on Death Row, and let em fight for a chance to live. Nobody would be forced, but shit if you're getting the chair tomorrow why not try and fight a lion?
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7769065 - 12/17/07 11:27 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'd buy the biggest fucking mansion I could find and let all of my close friends live with me for free for the rest of my life. I'd take endless trips to Amsterdamn and all friends would be invited for free. I'd buy like 10 of the best RV's money could buy and spend a couple of years traveling the country going to raves and festivals again with all of my friends comming for free. I'd buy a fucking island and blow it up just for fun. I'd buy every fucking Cadillac they make and pimp the shit out of everysingle one of them. I'd donate like $30 million to NORMAL and $100 million to MAPS. I'd burn $100 bills in my fireplace instead of fire wood. I'd pay NASA to let me take a vacation to the moon. And I'd probably end up overdosing on drugs before I had enough time to spend all my money.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: RobMarley420]
#7769092 - 12/17/07 11:31 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'd kill everyone. EVERYONE.
Then I would live like a hermit in a cave until I was died.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: darklcd]
#7769542 - 12/17/07 01:06 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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darklcd said: 2 chicks at the same time.
Dammit beat me too it.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7769581 - 12/17/07 01:15 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7770118 - 12/17/07 03:32 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wiccan_Seeker said:
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i would invest it in gold, and silver.
Corner the markets right? Haha with that kind of money you might as well take over the entire markets of gold, silver, platinum, palladium and you'd still be swimming in cash.
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In 2005 the World Gold Council estimated total global gold supply to be 3,859 tonnes
Thats 120 million troy ounces, or at the current price it would be worth about 100 billion dollars, just 0.1% of your capital. (yes, at one time Bill Gates has as much money as the worth of all the gold in the world) You don't want all the gold in the world though, because then the worldwide gold trade would cease (no one has it but you) and what an ounce would be worth then would be anyone's guess. But let's say 25% of all the gold? (0.025% of your capital) yes, you'd definitely want that.
I was just poking a bit of fun at you. lol. I crack myself up.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7770123 - 12/17/07 03:33 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i would start laying fiber to every door in the world, then i would set up the infrastructure to be able to supply every individual with free broadband access to information. then everyone that cant afford a laptop will be given a free one with a way to mechanically power it (hand crank.) i would give this away for as long as it takes to run the other telcos out of the internet business, then start charging the people in industrialized countries just enough to cover the expenses of giving the flow of knowledge to the poor. run it as a non-profit. then, every time a band came up for auction, i would buy it and turn it over to open source developers to play with under gpl style licensing.
now that i have the world connected, i would get the best scientists, authors, tradesmen, etc to record classes. i mean the best of the best. i would offer those for free to anyone wanting them over the broadband that everyone now has. so now, even a poor kid in the congo can watch a class on robotics recorded by a prof at MIT... or whatever. i believe that, if the world can have free access to information and any resource a person needs o learn anything, knowledge and openness will beget knowledge and openness.
then i will sit back and watch what i had created... while doing 2 chicks at the same time.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: automan]
#7770167 - 12/17/07 03:47 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I would pay everyone in the world to come together and do something, maybe a dance, maybe a gesture, all at the same time, right after smoking salvia. I would make sure everyone would get fed and would be able to get back home.
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Re: What would you do if you were 1.000 x richer than Bill Gates ever was? [Re: Asante]
#7770708 - 12/17/07 05:58 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I would make sure that nobody on the planet ever went hungry again. Then I would invest money in AIDS prevention and the destruction of preventable disease in all countries around the world. With capitol like that, I think anyone could do enough to make sure that the world was considerably better for everyone. I would probably buy the rest of the world's oil supply and shoot it at the sun or something too. Fuck funding alternative energy research, necessity is the mother of invention, not subsidy.
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