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What would you do with $640 Million Dollars?
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enough to easily pay off any outstanding debts and with smart investment live off of returns and an enjoyable part time job
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Most states let you set up an anonymous trust to accept the prize on your behalf.
The correct answer is:
1) Hire a lawyer to setup a trust and your estate. This is also handy because you can just direct anyone that asks you for money to this guy as well.
2) Hire an accountant to make sure you pay the taxes right
3) Hire a financial planner (or wealth management firm) to invest it all for you and live off the interest/dividends
4) Move somewhere safe
5) Quit your job, etc.
6) Whatever you want
But if half a billion dollars thinks it has the chance at destroying my life, it's welcome to try and do a better job than the half a dollar in my account
That thing you're thinking of? Yes, it'll be able to do that.
then I'd take the rest, buy a spooky house / mansion / castle at the top of a hill, renovate it for my simple needs, and then never go outside again
That half a dollar is the Lil' Mac of the financial world.
secure futures for close friends and family, donate to charities, play all the wsop events and donate winnings (if any) to charity.
investments. travel.
and then that still leaves assloads of cash
Money doesn't solve all problems, not unless its slowly acquired over long periods of time (which solves many problems, but still not all of them). Rocketing into the 1% from nothing is a great way to end up miserable and alone (unless you pay for friends, that is).
— Robert Heinlein
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What I am saying is we should knock over a casino.
the friends i have now are friends with me despite the fact that i'm broke as a joke
and i wouldn't have a problem giving that small group money
pay for friends? fuck that shit
Three.
I dunno it'd solve all the problems I have
Money doesn't solve all problems, but it does solve the only problems I currently have.
Drive around town with a couple of big burlap sacks full of money.
Drive up to someone, put a sack in their hands, say "you didn't see nothin'" and drive away.
Yeah for real. This prize is big enough to where I could build a neighborhood for just me and my closest friends/immediate family and set everyone up with enough money to never have to work again.
every discussion about the lottery has got to have one goose that makes this fucking comment
it's not an original thought, it reeks of condescension, and most people who've bought lottery tickets realize that their odds of winning aren't exactly great
i don't see anybody busting your balls for whatever stupid way you choose to waste a few bucks
Except the problem of having all the money.
Also, at this prize level one can make a pretty convincing argument that buying a ticket (though just one...two if it rolls over again) is a statistically rational decision.
money wouldn't solve the problem of me posting before you
I'm sure that an actual person thinks that way and totally isn't a strawman.
It is the British way!
Being broke and having friends is easy. The expectation there is friendship for friendship's sake. When you have that kind of bonkers cash, everyone eyes you for the money. Everyone. They can't help it, it's just how people work. They don't see you as that cool guy Dead Legend, they see you as Dead Legend-the guy with the ridiculous amount of money. Maybe he can take us out to dinner, maybe he can buy us a video game, or invest in my company, or put my daughter through college....
That happens. That's how it works. It starts small, and then everyone starts looking at you as the bank. One way or another, when you end up with that kind of wealth when the rest of your friendship community does not, you pay for your friends, either to keep them or for new ones.
And assuming you find the small percentage of folks that arent like that, the doubt will still be there from the majority of folks who act that way. You will always doubt, from the moment you cash that check, why people are hanging out with you. Because of you? Or because of your money.
And you will never know the truth.
— Robert Heinlein
Something something expected value.
Yup! I think the EV of a $1 ticket is something like $1.00001 right now or something.
not talking about people who play it every week
well I know who's not getting a moderately sized sack of cash
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Also, I'm on park avenue so my office is down the block from a Mercedes and Ferrari dealership. I would take the train in and drive home. I would convince them to let me drive it through the showroom glass, and i would hire nic cage to do it with me.
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At which point all of your friends will either:
1) Feel compelled to be friends with you weather or not they continuously feel that way due to owing you such a huge debt
2) Feel compelled to try and get more money out of you
3) Both.
— Robert Heinlein
that's high praise
With 640 mil you could probably just throw some cash at all of your friends and relatives, regardless of their motives, and still be fine.
Personally, I'm secure in my selected friends already, and they're likely confident in their understandings of who I am as a person, so I don't foresee a lot of insincerity there. And I'd probably find parasitic economic interaction with my extended family easier than the limited social interaction I have right now. I'd probably look to make a career out of investing in philanthropic, artistic, and culinary endeavors, rather than trying to fill my time with just spending the money on myself.
frosted flakes, here i come
Thankfully I don't need money to solve that particular problem.
Yeah that too. The people who play when it's like, $20 Mil or whatever it starts at, are pretty dumb. Spending like $1 a year on a ticket when it gets over $400MM isn't that dumb.
So make sure nobody knows about the money ever? I think that would solve that particular problem.