What would you do if you won the lottery?

[DLJ]

Buy a uninhabited Philippine island ...
and set up a orphanage / education centre ...
as the central pillar of a society with a constitution based on thinking of greats like Epicurus, Thomas Hobbes, Spinoza, David Hume, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, George Orwell, Russell, etc. ...
run as a matriarchal society...
inviting all my single-mother friends to organise and operate the whole show.

... and then spend all day on the beach drinking Kahlua cocktails.

[earmuffs]

This orphanage is a front for some illegal activity right?
I mean, haven't you herd the memo DLJ, all rich people are evil.

[DLJ]

(07-08-2013 02:55 AM)earmuffs Wrote:  This orphanage is a front for some illegal activity right?
I mean, haven't you herd the memo DLJ, all rich people are evil.

But not all evil people are rich.
How's ya bank balance looking, you evil bastard?


It won't be illegal if we have the power to create our own laws.

[TheBeardedDude]

I'd fund a small research group at my university with a few more PhD students, a few masters students, some undergrads, and some post-docs. I'd buy us a few pieces of equipment for research purposes and furnish a new lab to go along with all of it.

[earmuffs]

(07-08-2013 07:12 AM)DLJ Wrote:  

(07-08-2013 02:55 AM)earmuffs Wrote:  This orphanage is a front for some illegal activity right?
I mean, haven't you herd the memo DLJ, all rich people are evil.

But not all evil people are rich.
How's ya bank balance looking, you evil bastard?


It won't be illegal if we have the power to create our own laws.

Actually, I'm on track to save 9 whole dollars this week!
So fuck you!

[Elesjei]

I would love to be a philanthropist and investor. I see amazing projects going on around the world advancing important technologies, but so many of them run on small budgets and have limited impact. If I had $160,000,000, I could help kickstart lots of worthwhile enterprises that I think deserve it. From the investment I could get more money and continue the cycle. I would also like to donate to certain charities that I think don't get the funds that they deserve.

Apart from that, I'd set my family up for life with around two million dollars each.

[Anjele]

I would probably die from the shock and never get to enjoy it...

[DLJ]

(07-08-2013 09:56 AM)Anjele Wrote:  I would probably die from the shock and never get to enjoy it...

Have you made a will?

Would you like me to write one for you?

[DLJ]

(07-08-2013 09:39 AM)earmuffs Wrote:  

(07-08-2013 07:12 AM)DLJ Wrote:  But not all evil people are rich.
How's ya bank balance looking, you evil bastard?


It won't be illegal if we have the power to create our own laws.

Actually, I'm on track to save 9 whole dollars this week!
So fuck you!

If I'm too extrav, I might only save $9,000 this week.

Fuck you back!






p.s. no homo.

[dancefortwo]

(07-08-2013 09:55 AM)Elesjei Wrote:  I would love to be a philanthropist and investor. I see amazing projects going on around the world advancing important technologies, but so many of them run on small budgets and have limited impact. If I had $160,000,000, I could help kickstart lots of worthwhile enterprises that I think deserve it. From the investment I could get more money and continue the cycle. I would also like to donate to certain charities that I think don't get the funds that they deserve.

Apart from that, I'd set my family up for life with around two million dollars each.

You nailed it. This would be near to what I would do with the lottery money. I'd like to invest in cleaner cars or something that would make a difference in the global warming problem. I don't know exactly what but something in that area.

The other thing, my hubby wants to build a glass theatre and art center to direct Shakespeare and other plays in. Inside the theatre would be a Shakespearian garden with trees and herbs mentioned in the plays. The audience would sit among the garden area with great site lines of the stage and watch fabulous stuff. Wouldn't that be fantastic!