Retire to some island in the middle of nowhere and build myself an evil villain lair. Once money runs out threaten for 1 Beeeellion dollars. If 300 billion usd isn’t spent then donate the rest to some child cancer hospital or something anonymously post-mortem.
Any other choice would be suboptimal.
Start a new political party in the US that actually represents the people.
A question for the economist here, does paying my country’s national debt help?
not a economist, but no, it does not help (at least not really in short term, in very long it does pay okay-ish (depends on what kind of debt is it, but it can help keep ties with other nations intact))
Donate to cancer research
Trains
Fund free education and health care for everyone in the world regardless of race, nationality and creed. Imposed no matter how much kicking and screaming certain countries might do to oppose it. With appropriate countermeasures for each specific country that opposes it. A random country in the middle east that hates educating girls or whatever? Armed guards and other related measures as needed. US has entrenched for profit health care? Fund legislation that rips out the entire system by the roots etc.
Excess funds would be invested in such a way as to fund those programs in perpetuity. With safeguards put in place so that I can be reasonably certain that it won’t be easy to dismantle from within or without.
Assuming I have enough money left over, I’d do the same for housing.
If I still have money left over if also fund ways of tackling the climate crisis and changing corporate strategy so instead of chasing infinite growth in a finite world the mentality is more about stability and stewardship, of the company and of the planet.
There are about 2 billion people under 14 in the world. Assuming half of them have access to free education you would still only have $300 per student.
I would give my money to this guy
Assassinate the other billionaires. I genuinely believe billionaires are the source of all the biggest problems the planet has right now.
Exactly what I came here to say. Hire a group, and tell them to start at the top of the Forbes list and work their way down. Send anonymous letters to media outlets that surrendering their wealth is the only way to save their lives.
It would dramatically improve the quality of living on this planet within 3 months.
Someone is simply going to take their place. The problem isn’t the billionaires themselves, its the system.
Not if you pick off each new billionaire.
We can do a lot more to change the system without a bunch of over-moneyed under-principled techbros trying to stop us.
But if we do that today, what do we do tomorrow? When someone someone else takes that vacant CEO position and starts receiving that ludicrous salary, what then?
If you killed every billionaire every month, they probably wouldn’t have time to seriously affect society, but then I suspect we’d have other problems. I have a feeling that would produce some negative outcomes for the economy and general quality of life.
You’re just worried about the loud ones who are usually loud because they aren’t rich. Its the quiet really rich ones you need to worry about
Fair. The techbros are emblematic of the problem, but it extends far outside the tech industry.
No.
Peter Thiel isn’t quiet. Egghead man isn’t quiet.
I buy social medias and news outlets. Then I weaponize them to support a clueless gullible idiot candidate for POTUS.
I use my influence on him to get a position that will allow me to get grossly richer by favoring my own businesses, including crushing unions and force my employees to work to death on low wages.
When I reach 1 trillion $, I’ll have much more resources to improve the planet and living conditions of my fellow humans.
But wait! Maybe I could do even more for humankind with 2 trillions $??
Kinda hate that I’m upvoting you.
Give 299 billion to Ukraine
I think about this all the time and I still have no idea.
A good chunk of that money would end up going to experts to advise me how best to use it since I would want to maximize what good I could bring… 😩
There is a danish researcher called Björn Lomborg who has been researching this type of question a lot. He tends to get a lot of hate because the most cost efficient ways to spend money to do good isn’t what people want it to be.
What are the most cost-efficient ways?
Iirc, micronutrients and HIV prevention, followed by preventing malaria. The idea is that we spend a little money now, to make many people grow up and be healthy, which avoids big costs to societies while at the same time generating people who can contribute more to the same societies. Many people want to solve the climate first, but it’s very expensive for very little return. In an ideal world we would solve all the problems, but… we don’t. So if we have limited resources, we should spend it where it does most long-term good. It’s not a bad idea to do good things for the climate, but if we have to choose between things to do, it gives little benefit per dollar compared to other things.
bribe (sorry, i mean lobby) politicians to vote in interest of humanity. Environmental protection, public healthcare, solve the housing crisis/homeless epidemic, increase education budget spending, etc.
Create a fake lottery to help get a fascist into office for the end goal of turning that $300bil into $1tril.
here are a few ideas I had:
- invest / subsidized green tech
- lobby to stop oil and gas subsidies
- lobby to stop meat subsidies
- lobby for stricter environmental taxes and regulations.
- subsidize repair services so that it’s cheaper for people to fix things instead of buying new
- offer bad politicians a lot of money to resign
- buy companies that provide essential services (water gas net) and make them non profits
- do the same to things like Uber Facebook Google, and make ads optional
- make public transit free
- make affordable healthcare
- set up a charity with whatever’s left. withdraw 4% a year and split evenly it between to anyone who asks for it
The lobbying stuff seems sensible.
The market cap of Alphabet/Google alone is an order of magnitude larger than your budget.
Offering bad politicians lots of money is probably a bad precedent. Also, depending on your definition, there’s potentially a lot of them.
Free public transit, healtchcare are also significantly bigger than your budget.
So since that doesn’t work - how about you buy a social media network, and get chummy with the corrupt candidate for president you push, then be part of a commission to destroy most sensible parts of the federal government. Also, build a creepy compound for all your children and their mothers.
with whatever’s left
Heh, several of your bullets can eat that full amount.
welp. if I ever become president then there goes the national debt
Solve the billionaire problem
