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What would you do with $640 Million Dollars?
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Some states have a lottery tax in addition to the federal income tax you'd pay at 25%.
CA doesn't, so here you'd end up with $345,000,000 after taxes, if you took the lump sum.
I would buy Monty a Tesla to poop in and mansion for Shambler Milk.
To poop in.
it's still less than what is there currently!
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this actually varies from state to state
But damn, the thought of half a billion to my name is really appealing.
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I might even be more then half with the lump sum option.
Write CHA on the moon?
You're definitely more than half the sum of your lumps.
Everyone I hang out with pretends to like me because they believe one day I'll be rich and they'll be able to just mooch off of me for the rest of their lives.
Buy a nice house
Help my parents/immediate family out financially
Buy all the pornography
Buy a house to keep said pornography in
This is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.
We cannot buy Mega Millions here
Also I never win anything so
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Not really, It's not about faith, it's about fact. When you are poor, all you have to offer is compassion and friendship. The relationships are more honest.
If you do something like what he suggests, no matter how awesome your friends are they will no longer be able to act the same because the entire dynamic your friendship was based upon, equality/respect/whatever is now gone. If your best friend buys you a house and then does something to piss you off by being a dick, most likely you will not teat him the same way you would without the house purchase. That's a weight on you, something that will keep you from taking the actions you would otherwise. Likely you will smile and bear it because of that debt.
Spending that kind of money on people is effectively the same thing as controlling them, whether or not that is your intention, that's what ends up happening. You may end up with similar relationships, but they wont be the same as before. This isn't a pessimism thing. It's fact. There are tons of books written about the subject, entire manuals and an entire advocacy industry on how to mitigate the effects of sudden wealth to play down these issues.
Now, if you were to slowly acquire wealth over time, your friendships and whatnot evolve with it and things are less likely to change. But being thrust into mega-rich causes these sorts of rifts in the most everyday and awesome groups.
Winning the lottery and everything being peachy keen forever and ever is a daydream. You will have problems, different ones, but in my opinion worse ones than being poor. At least when you are struggling to make rent you know people are being authentic to you and not forcing smiles.
— Robert Heinlein
I'm going to take my winnings and legally rename the word "lottery" to "idiot tax"
Also fund a world series of pissing contests
if I win I promise to buy a pornographer
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I have more to offer than compassion and friendship though. What happens if people only like me because I do a really good Will Smith impersonation?
Keep my job pay the taxes on the lump sum and enjoy having the luxury to tell my bosses to fuck off whenever I want.
Definitely buy a house. Maybe some rental properties near Pitt for some easy income. Get a delorean.
Maybe get a savings account Ive heard good things about those.
If I win 50 million tax-free dollars tonight I'll send you a plaque with that phrase engraved on it.
Make sure it is in Comic Sans.
Haha, I'm not saying money isn't super great, just getting it suddenly and in ridiculous quantities like in the lotto has a proven terrible outcome record. Slowly building over time is a super great thing.
That said, 10 or 20k would be pretty useful to pay of my remaining loans and help out my sisters and wife with theirs. Our debts could be settled, or or two small things bought, and then the money would be gone. No longer a factor in the exchange.
— Robert Heinlein
I'd give enough to my mom where she could get a new car and retire, she's done so much for me and I want her to just spend the rest of her days maxing and relaxing with all her cats. Buy a house for me and Annie to live in, in a nice part of town. Just a tiny house, there are so many cute ones around here. I'd buy us both cars. Pay off my student loan, and probably use the money to try and finish a degree. Invest the rest of it and basically live not much more extravagantly than I'm living now, just not doing anything. I'd donate money to the shelter I got my cat from, because I love her. Oh and I'd quit my job, duh.
Love you too, babe!
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No way, you're getting a top-of-the-line font. Comic...with serifs.
Annie wins the lottery and I become ANT Gaming Kinderparty.
Or ANR.
Or whatever he wants it to be because he'll own me.
But in actuality I'd spend 99% of it on ruining Enc's life
Just one day he'll wake up and be really goddamn rich and he'll know that this fresh hell was his own doing
In space, no one can ask you for money.
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That's going to be the tagline for the eventual prequel to Prometheus.
I'll sponsor you and Gootecks.
A dream team with the Gooter himself? Yes please!
Also, half of your money has to go to ruining ChrisG.
After that, I think I would devote the bulk of the next 26 years to cramming as many massive real estate projects into the same municipality as possible.
"This year," I would say, "I think I would like a dozen water parks."
I would then take that money, buy a ferrari and houses for all of YOUR friends and family with letters saying it was from YOU. Ha!
With the remaining $100.00 I'd hold a pizza party for my family and friends. All the pizzas they could want.
From then on they would only eye me for my pizza buying potential.
It would be hell.
— Robert Heinlein
and then pay for his hospital bill
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When I'm done with him, he'll be SC ChrisG NY. The SC will be SuperCuts.