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For 700 million I'll play the [Lottery]
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So in the US there's a mega millions drawing tonight for north of 1.35 billion USD, which ends up being around 700 million as a lump sum. I know that playing the lottery is a sucker's bet and that the lottery is a harmful predatory bad, bad thing that shouldn't exist. I only buy tickets when the jackpot gets over a billion dollars so I have three for the drawing tonight.
I enjoy the thought exercise of "what would I do with 700 million dollars" and I always hang up on whether I should give almost all of it away, which seems like the safest way to deal with it, or whether I should try to use it to effect real social and cultural change like all of the super rich right wing fuckers seem to be doing. Obviously if I had 700 million dollars I would myself be a super rich fucker, which automatically calls into question my ability to maintain a progressive agenda, but in the absence of the money I feel like I could handle it but it'd also be a huge stressful hassle that I probably don't want to deal with, but if I think I could do it would I have a responsibility to try? All these deep thoughts for the low low price of $9 seems worth it, even if I almost certainly won't win a blessed thing.
I enjoy the thought exercise of "what would I do with 700 million dollars" and I always hang up on whether I should give almost all of it away, which seems like the safest way to deal with it, or whether I should try to use it to effect real social and cultural change like all of the super rich right wing fuckers seem to be doing. Obviously if I had 700 million dollars I would myself be a super rich fucker, which automatically calls into question my ability to maintain a progressive agenda, but in the absence of the money I feel like I could handle it but it'd also be a huge stressful hassle that I probably don't want to deal with, but if I think I could do it would I have a responsibility to try? All these deep thoughts for the low low price of $9 seems worth it, even if I almost certainly won't win a blessed thing.
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Like the jackpot tonight is so big that you could never work again while living a fairly lavish lifestyle, and giving your kids the ability to have a similar never have to work again lifestyle, and you could still give away like 98% of it if you’ve only got the one kid.
It’s a pile of money so big it has gravity. unless you just dump it all into a charity day one the pile is going to keep getting bigger by a life changing amount of money before you can give it all away.
especially once you get somewhere between 15-50 million (depending on how lavishly you care to live), that's where interest starts compounding faster than the average person could earn via labor. once someone can get to the high end of that number is when money becomes more of a scoreboard than any actual measure of quality of life
which is all to say 700 million dollars is a fucking huge amount of money in a way where you very well might have a hard time getting rid of it simply because of how big it is
I would set up a non-profit corporation that buys land with the express intent of reforesting and depopulating the country, starting with the state of michigan.
I'd also start a new transcontinental railroad company.
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I could give 2000 people 50k a year for seven years
Probably get drunk on bourbon and go through gofundme giving people money.
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Furnish said properties.
Set aside money for travel.
Donate the majority. Sitting on half a billion plus would almost certainly rot both my mind and my soul.
Oh you want to kidnap poor unarmed me because I'm fabulously wealthy now? Oh whatever shall I SECRET GUN MOTHERFUCKERS
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Which came back to mind today in this context. Could you form a genuine new human relationship with 1.3 billion dollars in your back pocket? I think you could only ever suspect everyone of being warped by it if and when they found out.
In that light, the ticket on my desk feels more like a gun to my head. I was never a big lotto player but that bit of reflection will cure me of it for good.
Staircase Wit: I think the only viable course of action on winning would be to figure out what you can divide into a reasonable annual salary for life, and immediately deliver the remainder to worthy charities. Like we say around here, that much money is brain poison.
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I definitely think if you weren't married already, you'd have a miniscule chance after suddenly becoming a billionaire. That much money would poison your and any potential partners' minds.
My idea is the same, but a lump sum payment of $250k conditional on their quitting. I'm not going to let my current employer set how much someone gets!
Lol at my family trying to ruin me as none of them want to deal with me and have most of my life
When it had hit a billion for the first time the cashier at the grocery store was talking about it. I said that is an insane amount of money for the average person. you could buy anything you heart desired and still have that much left
My boss was talking about the office pools they had before the pandemic, which nowadays sounds more like extortion.
We're already at skeleton crews, fuck if I wanna be the only one left to have to hire a whole new department from scratch.
Fortunately I take comfort that like everyone else we'd never win anyway.
Because I can't cook and all I eat is garbage.
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When I see the screens sometimes I see a lot of the scratchers are sold out
I am wary of work pools and now very wary. When I worked at a casino one of the pit bosses ran a pool. One day she is paying people out in the break room. I thought nothing of it as ok good on them. But after she quit soon after paying out the pool the rumor of she won far more than she said {she was paying out $250 the rumor was she won 250k+} So adding that to why I am very wary to join that type of group
I matched 0 of 6 numbers
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It was something to do with like, if the jackpot is so high that you'd come out ahead even if you bought so many tickets that you actually have a high chance of winning
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1 in 300 million
Also, the higher the jackpot, the more attention it gets and the more people that buy tickets. If there's a sufficiently large number of tickets sold, then it's eventually guaranteed that a winning ticket will be in that pool of tickets sold. So once it gets to the point that a winning ticket WILL be sold, then you might as well buy in. When it's a smaller pool of people buying tickets, then it's less likely that a winning ticket will be printed, let alone that you'll be the one to buy it.
But there's no point less than infinity at which a winning ticket will be sold.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/10/viktor-gjonaj-michigan-lottery-scam-wire-fraud/671741/
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$2 for the Mega Millions or Powerball (aka the big ones). No fluctuation.
You can add a dollar to get the megaplier or power play which increase a non-jackpot win, but I wouldn't.
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It's what spono posted above: 1 in 300 million for the jackpot. Better odds for smaller prizes.