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Ive decided to buy a lottery ticket
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So like logically I wont win. All the odds are against me
But what if I do?
What then smart guy?
Im asking you the people that technically are my peers to help me out
So lets assume I take the lump sum if the calculator is correct thats a little under 76mill
Paying off my debt buying a ( reasonable)house and setting up trust funds for my niblings/helping out family are my initial priority. Im trans so a few surgeries are in store for me and some friends as well
So after all that let's assume 68 million left
What insane one time purchase should I make?
(On the off chance this actually happens I will likely vanish completely so you'll never know what I picked sorry)
But what if I do?
What then smart guy?
Im asking you the people that technically are my peers to help me out
So lets assume I take the lump sum if the calculator is correct thats a little under 76mill
Paying off my debt buying a ( reasonable)house and setting up trust funds for my niblings/helping out family are my initial priority. Im trans so a few surgeries are in store for me and some friends as well
So after all that let's assume 68 million left
What insane one time purchase should I make?
(On the off chance this actually happens I will likely vanish completely so you'll never know what I picked sorry)
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what makes you happy
would it be owning a very well known piece of art? how about an unknown one that speaks just to you? or commissioning one tailored to your specifications, never mind the market worth?
would it be a plot of land? would you most appreciate a good view at sundown? how fine a wine you can make from grapes grown there? what kind of fish you can catch in the streams?
how about a car? do you want the most expensive one? the most beautiful one? the one your dad had? the one your dad never got a chance to have?
would it be a hospital wing? which hospital? what disease? do you want your name on a wall? if you do, is it your name that's important, or what's being done in the structure you funded? if the former, is your name really worth that much? if the latter, why is it important your name be there at all?
is it something political? making a change? how would you quantify it? what change would make you happy? can you trust the people you fund to change things the right way? will you be satisfied with it or will it trigger ever increasing involvement in the milieu until suddenly your enmeshed in the webs of capital and governance, an "elite", with no recourse but to throw good money after bad?
tl;dr Disappear until the heat dies down. Windfalls destroy relationships.
Oh I wasnt kidding about vanishing most of my family would never see me again
Regarding this my state is in the process of passing a bill that would allow me to remain anonymous
Loan us a tenner.
Moral of the story: Go for it maybe you'll get some booze money.
The balls don't care, but if you're going to win, don't want to share the pool with a bunch of other winners.
Probs best to stay away from multiples of five entirely too, if my kindergarten bingo games taught me anything.
Oh Im buying the forums
Thats a given
I'd probably also go back to grad school
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
That's the pits.
I wouldn't even be able to hide via denial, as my last name is very distinct.
I wonder how much I could lie my way around it. "Oh no, that turned out to be an error. I don't even play the lottery, nobody ever actually wins that stuff!"
Being secretly immune to the capitalist horrors of society and being able to discretely assist other with it as well is such a dream.
Pay off the house, do some updates we cannot afford
Put a bunch of money in my daughter's bank account
Pay off the cars, other debts
Then it gets tricky
Pay a bunch of people's bail
I'd probably set up some sort of gardening school, I guess, and also have a culinary school and a brewery school
Fund some sort of public library and keep the goddamned bigots out
Buy a couple Senators to make it so you don't have to pay taxes
Cost $44 billion, almost certainly was worth less, and has only plummeted since.
It might not be in lottery winning range yet, but it hasn't even been a full year.
Honestly I think if you've got the spoons for it, setting up your own grassroots charity would be the way to go. So many charities nowadays are mismanaged or just outright lying that it's hard to find any that are truly championing righteous causes and doing what they say they're doing.
Are there any statistics about this, because it sounds exactly like the kind of thing people tell themselves and each other to justify not donating to charity.
Not saying you're doing that, just that the phrase rings to me the same way "they're all corrupt so I'm not going to vote." does.
There are also good ones known by the same people, mind. The smaller a charity is, the more likely it seems to be run with well intentions.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
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All true rise-and-grinders know about compound lottery interest and use their winnings to buy more tickets