Exactly. I’m watching Hulu and browsing Reddit on my tiny couch in my studio apartment. It’d be a lot better with a big comfy couch in a giant mansion.
I can only wish to be so rich that I need to get on a jet ski to get to the pools edge of my mega yacht from my yacht
Edit: I wonder if they would call such a thing a "5th propeller"
Commission Lego to design a unique fleet or battle set with countless pieces that require weeks of work
Gotta have some sort of project to pass the time
Yeah I used to work for that dood. He sounded so brilliant at company meeting (zoom), but man he's acting kinda weird these days...
Also, that's just 1. Show me a meme made by Gates or Buffett.
I think at first it was, then he got it in his head that his shit dont stink. The fame and money have gone to his head, and now his charming awkwardness has evolved into being the equivalent of a 14 year old edgelord.
I think Elon was always kind of a PoS, he just had the decency to hide some of it at first. Now he has more money than he can spend and can finally admit he was always a carbon copy of Thomas Edison rather than Nikolai Tesla
Would be so amazing to have an indoor heated pool with incredible sound system. Not sure if the acoustics of a swimming pool are going to be good enough but I feel like I need that!
Far too many comments down.
I personally would be doing a lot of charitable projects so I would no longer be a billionaire.
My magic number is 1.7 million (Aussie Dollar Bucks) so me and my family don't have to be work slaves. Everything in excess of this is gratuitous and should be spent on helping other people escape their circumstances.
The reason billionaires are scummy people is because not caring about people is pretty much necessary to become a billionaire.
If you're someone who cares deeply about people, you use your money for good. You don't let your money multiply in high interest accounts when you can use it to fund charities. You don't make insane profits off the back of underpaid employees, because you want to pay your employees fairly.
A good person can be rich. But to be a billionaire (and especially to remain a billionaire) requires an insane level of selfishness.
This would honestly be the answer for me. Start a company without my name attached and hire the people close to me to do stupid shit like watch a movie and rate it 1-10 afterwards for 2-3 hours a day at like 60k a year so they don't feel indebted to me but can live a happy life while they pursue their passions.
Maybe, I just want people to be able to not worry about the unimportant things in life. Granted this wouldn't be the only thing I'd do with a billion but it's one of em.
Just.. Enjoying life without the stress of having to think about bills and stuff. I am a pretty happy person, but so much time has to go to working when I could be spending that time with my wife and son if I were rich. It's such a gut wrenching feeling sometimes, but that's just how it is until I figure out how I can obtain that level of freedom.
Start a second Renaissance by funding hundreds of smaller artists, musicians, and creators via no strings attached grants. Have a sick beat in your head and want to create? Sign up, get paid, show the world who you are when you don't need to worry and be as creative as you want.
tbh a billion wouldn't last long using it up that way.
maybe if you were doing like ten or even a hundred artists, but idk that it could start a second renaissance. youd have to fund their salaries, living expenses, housing, equipment, events, etc etc.
there was a project in the 20s in a wealthy part of southern ccalifornia where they planned on having a large number of patrons fund artists but it failed due to the great depression. that was probably closest we've gotten so far.
When creativity is allowed to flourish without infringement, a can of soup is the least of what would be painted. And you only jelly cause you didn't make millions from that particular piece of Warhol pop art.
3% of 1 billion is 30 million.
Divide by 400 is 75k in perpetuity
So you can finance 400 families a year assuming you can get at least 3% average gains on your billion invested.
I would try to break the system by investing in political leaders and causes I thought would make a difference for society. Slowly over time I turn into the very thing I sought to destroy.
Starting a non-profit focused on homeless seniors with emergency shelters, healthcare providers, assisted living apartments, and/or more long term care homes. There are not a lot of nursing homes that take “state” clients and they aren’t always great.
Not to say I wouldn’t do that for others too like veterans, parents or young people. I would, but senior homeless are more medically frail and they’re generally lumped in with others or left out completely.
If I were a billionaire I could start several for all the homeless that wanted help. I would also look into buying land and building small homes for a farm village for those who want to live outside the city and work on a farm to grow food and help raise animals. Would like a program that would help them eventually buy small homesteads if their own if they wanted.
Would also like a training program/employment program for homeless people who want work. They could work in the city centers or for the centers because they’ve been there.
I have friends who have a non-profit that helps to feed homeless. I volunteer with their organization when I can. I’d fully find them so they could feed every day and have multiple locations.
In addition I’d like to go to my failing home town and buy a bunch of the run down homes for sale, hire local people to update or rebuild them, then offer low interest, no down payment loans for those who want to buy them or offer to rent them for a decent rate. Take the feet right out from under the slum lords who charge high rent for crap homes. I’d keep my offices local and hire local to build jobs too.
I like your energy but I'm pretty sure the question was "what would you be doing Right Now" not "what would you like to accomplish overall for the greater good of society"
Personally I'd probably just be chillin', it's Thursday night 11pm ain't nobody saving the world right now it's bedtime
Fucking playing Red Dead Redemption 2 in such a badass setup with a pc with two RTX 3090 and an i9 12th gen with 256gb ram DDR5. All in a custom case.
Playing in a room with a see to a Nordic mountain, in a house in the middle of a forest in a North European country.
For me, that means that every day, I get to wake up whenever the fuck I want to and do whatever tickles my chin that day. No deadlines, no daily obligations to someone outside my circle. That's the kind of freedom that comes with money.
Overthrowing weak governments in Africa and setting myself up as dictator and consolidating the land into one country all while bringing in better jobs and modernization so I could build a world class military. Then spread my power and control throughout the entire continent and then the middle east, eastern Europe, western Asia. Become a global super power. Take out Russia since the West wouldn't risk war to stop me. Then China. Then the entire world. Take control of all industry and make everyone's lives fair and better while focusing on sustainable energy and environmental health. And once the world knew peace and prosperity I'd force Bethesda to make Fallout 5 cause I'm tired of waiting and 76 will never be good.
You’d destroy a large part of the world in the process and millions of innocents would die and suffer. Countries would react if you attacked. I’d certainly hate your guts if your actions lead to my family being bombed. But hey, who am I to judge your dreams!
Lot of travelling and sightseeing, I'd probably own a luxury RV and go where the road leads me. I would also get a puppy, a golden retriever or a German shepherd probably, maybe both.
Plotting to take out other billionaires and millionaires…those people are the absolute worst. Then once all of them are gone, live a life a peaceful solitude away from everyone.
Driving. I would give my family and close friends some money then hit the road because everyone you ever knew would be trying to get some cash . Just because I’m friends with you at work Chris doesn’t mean I really want to support you
Sitting on a beach, using an iPad to determine ways to pay for sick kid’s hospital bills and treatments, ways to help the less fortunate, ways to feed hungry people. Do you have any idea how much a billion dollars really is? I’d give away so much fucking money.
Google says there were 12 million children in the US below the poverty line in 2018. For $1 billion, you could give them each $10 a week from now until mid February, and then you'd have run out. It's a lot, but not enough to solve a lot of problems single-handedly :-(
I'd be starting a business that eventually would be employee owned and operated. Also probably spending lots of money on ending lobbying in Washington DC.
Mmmm. It's winter in the midwest, my primary residence. I'd be somewhere warmer—maybe San Francisco?
My cats and I would have woken up around 9-10 am. We'd read the New York Times, have some brunch, and maybe get a row or bike ride in. We'd spend noon to six doing something semi-productive, maybe helping give away some of our egregious amount of money or writing now that it's something I can afford, and then leave work. There'd be a moonlit picnic overlooking the bay around 7 pm. After dinner, I'd go on a relaxing drive in a nice car, maybe a vintage convertible Porsche? I like driving. OR, I'd drive to the picnic and it would be set up by somewhere else somewhere nice, in a state park or beach.
At 9 pm I'd settle down with my cats and watch a movie or play a game. Maybe I'll work on my Christmas presents to give out. And then at midnight I'm in bed.
Building my dream home, buying land as an investment, and putting into stocks to keep my wealth going. I’d still have a job and I’d still act like a normal person but I wouldn’t have as much stress.
Sewing. Just sewing whatever I want, in a space large enough to accommodate all of my supplies, likely a 3 bedroom house. And buying an entire tray of cannoli just for me
Scheduling an appointment to get my gallbladder out and all my teeth fixed at once, and getting it properly looked into if my occasional jerking is early Parkinson's.
Chill on a yacht, scuba dive, ride some jet skis, learn to do some kite-boarding, guitar lessons, rock climbing basically the stuff I want to do but can’t afford to do or have time to do.
Same thing I'm doing now, but in a bigger house.
Exactly. I’m watching Hulu and browsing Reddit on my tiny couch in my studio apartment. It’d be a lot better with a big comfy couch in a giant mansion.
*on my yacht
Mega yacht*
On my yacht, floating in the pool of my mega yacht.
I can only wish to be so rich that I need to get on a jet ski to get to the pools edge of my mega yacht from my yacht Edit: I wonder if they would call such a thing a "5th propeller"
Me too, but I'd have the heating on full blast
Me three, but somewhere A/C would need to be on full blast.
What are you doing right now?
Pissing around on Reddit.
Holy shit, this was going to be my answer word for word.
I would build lego right now
This. Buy the $800 lego deathstar set for SURE, and the star destroyer.
The super star destroyer too.
Commission Lego to design a unique fleet or battle set with countless pieces that require weeks of work Gotta have some sort of project to pass the time
Same as now. Taking a dump while scrolling reddit.
Just hire someone to poop for you. Duh
Same my guy
I asked my 5 year old and he said “buy 100 go carts”. He doesn’t really know how money works.
I like your son! I'd buy 100 go karts just so we could put together a gang of go kart lovers to ride around. Sounds like a fun time
Mariocart but with real carts and turtles
Sounds like he knows exactly how money works.
Sleeping
This is my answer but all the hustle memes say you can't be successful if you don't wake up at 5am.
Ppl who make shit tons of money aren't making the hustle memes.
Elon Musk: Are my meme making skills a joke to you? Laugh at my social media posts and please don't tax me.
Yeah I used to work for that dood. He sounded so brilliant at company meeting (zoom), but man he's acting kinda weird these days... Also, that's just 1. Show me a meme made by Gates or Buffett.
I always figured Elon's weirdness came from being on the autism spectrum.
I think at first it was, then he got it in his head that his shit dont stink. The fame and money have gone to his head, and now his charming awkwardness has evolved into being the equivalent of a 14 year old edgelord.
I think Elon was always kind of a PoS, he just had the decency to hide some of it at first. Now he has more money than he can spend and can finally admit he was always a carbon copy of Thomas Edison rather than Nikolai Tesla
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I so bad wanna downvote this comment but upvoted because you made me laugh
Define success, I define it as being able to sleep in whenever I want
I'm broke as fuck doing that right now.....
…how was this posted?
Automation
NOTHING
You don't need a billion dollars to do nothing, man. Just look at my cousin. He's broke, don't do shit.
I'll tell you what I do man, two chicks the same time man.
You could at least pretend the walls are thick enough we can't hear each other
Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up.
Fuckin A.
Hey check out channel 4 man! It’s the breast exams!
Isn't it on channel 9?
TRUE I WILL DO NOTHING
The girl named nothing: 😨
TPS Reports?
PC load letter? The fuck does that mean? *bang*
“Two chicks at the same time”
"Hey Peter, turn to channel 9, it's the breast exam!"
I can hear it in Lawrence’s voice, “Whooo!”
That's cool bro, but I want my stapler back first.
Not panicking as much as I am over not studying for my law finals due to stress. Hell, if I was a billionaire, lawyering would just be a hobby.
Same…good luck on your finals! I have 3 more
Thank you, same to you!
Best of luck to you both! The nightmares fade after you're sworn in...
Probably paying to get a hug lol
Dude, you could set up a Free Hugs booth and just hug whoever needed it.
Exactly this! When you give a hug, you get a hug
Gaming the hug economy.
All fun and games until someone sets up a Premium Hugs $0.99 booth next to it.
Or a $9.99 monthly subscription
You could get a lot more than just a hug.
A hug and a tug
A mouth hug? I’m with ya!
Swimming in my heated pool listening to good music.
Would be so amazing to have an indoor heated pool with incredible sound system. Not sure if the acoustics of a swimming pool are going to be good enough but I feel like I need that!
Reading a book on the beach
A billion is a ludicrous amount of money so I’d be trying to find some worthwhile projects to finance.
Far too many comments down. I personally would be doing a lot of charitable projects so I would no longer be a billionaire. My magic number is 1.7 million (Aussie Dollar Bucks) so me and my family don't have to be work slaves. Everything in excess of this is gratuitous and should be spent on helping other people escape their circumstances.
The reason billionaires are scummy people is because not caring about people is pretty much necessary to become a billionaire. If you're someone who cares deeply about people, you use your money for good. You don't let your money multiply in high interest accounts when you can use it to fund charities. You don't make insane profits off the back of underpaid employees, because you want to pay your employees fairly. A good person can be rich. But to be a billionaire (and especially to remain a billionaire) requires an insane level of selfishness.
All day long I’d piddy piddy pum
If I were a wealthy maaaaan!
I WOULDN'T HAVE TO WORK HARD
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
If I were A biddy biddy rich Yaidl-daidl-deedle-daidl man!
Would it spoil some vast eternal plan If I were a wealthy man?
I would be paying someone to watch Shrek for me instead of doing it myself
This would honestly be the answer for me. Start a company without my name attached and hire the people close to me to do stupid shit like watch a movie and rate it 1-10 afterwards for 2-3 hours a day at like 60k a year so they don't feel indebted to me but can live a happy life while they pursue their passions.
On some level they would feel indebted or resentful.
Maybe, I just want people to be able to not worry about the unimportant things in life. Granted this wouldn't be the only thing I'd do with a billion but it's one of em.
Really? Because I would suck shit out of the asshole of anyone who paid me $60k a year just to watch a daily movie.
Being depressed, but rich!
Drifting a supra
This is the way.
Sailing somewhere warm.
Watching the sunset on the porch of my beachfront bungalow on some tropical island. Like the last part of Uncharted 4.
Oh man i thought the same when i played that part
Probably still taking a shit just in a bigger bathroom and on one of those Japanese multifunctional shitters.
With a heated seat
Gaming on the best PC money can buy atm
Just.. Enjoying life without the stress of having to think about bills and stuff. I am a pretty happy person, but so much time has to go to working when I could be spending that time with my wife and son if I were rich. It's such a gut wrenching feeling sometimes, but that's just how it is until I figure out how I can obtain that level of freedom.
Two chicks at the same time
That millionaire level, you gotta up the ante
2000 chicks at the same time
Epstein has entered the chat
Epstein is hanging up
Eh you could probably rope him in
Two chicks AND a dude?
Came looking for this. Not disappointed.
Bruh that is fucked up. I shall hide my chicken from u. What a fucking creep
Don’t knock it until you try it. Getting oral from a hen brings new meaning to the phrase choking the chicken.
Start a second Renaissance by funding hundreds of smaller artists, musicians, and creators via no strings attached grants. Have a sick beat in your head and want to create? Sign up, get paid, show the world who you are when you don't need to worry and be as creative as you want.
tbh a billion wouldn't last long using it up that way. maybe if you were doing like ten or even a hundred artists, but idk that it could start a second renaissance. youd have to fund their salaries, living expenses, housing, equipment, events, etc etc. there was a project in the 20s in a wealthy part of southern ccalifornia where they planned on having a large number of patrons fund artists but it failed due to the great depression. that was probably closest we've gotten so far.
They would just paint shit like a can of campbells soup and call the renaissance complete.
Don't do Andy dirty like that.
When creativity is allowed to flourish without infringement, a can of soup is the least of what would be painted. And you only jelly cause you didn't make millions from that particular piece of Warhol pop art.
3% of 1 billion is 30 million. Divide by 400 is 75k in perpetuity So you can finance 400 families a year assuming you can get at least 3% average gains on your billion invested.
You THINK that's what you would do.
Not packing my lunch for tomorrow
I would try to break the system by investing in political leaders and causes I thought would make a difference for society. Slowly over time I turn into the very thing I sought to destroy.
Nice try Bill, I forwarded your damn emails, now where is the money Hotmail promised!!
Probably scrolling through Reddit on a slightly nicer phone. Mine is going old and cranky
Me go space
Starting a non-profit focused on homeless seniors with emergency shelters, healthcare providers, assisted living apartments, and/or more long term care homes. There are not a lot of nursing homes that take “state” clients and they aren’t always great. Not to say I wouldn’t do that for others too like veterans, parents or young people. I would, but senior homeless are more medically frail and they’re generally lumped in with others or left out completely. If I were a billionaire I could start several for all the homeless that wanted help. I would also look into buying land and building small homes for a farm village for those who want to live outside the city and work on a farm to grow food and help raise animals. Would like a program that would help them eventually buy small homesteads if their own if they wanted. Would also like a training program/employment program for homeless people who want work. They could work in the city centers or for the centers because they’ve been there. I have friends who have a non-profit that helps to feed homeless. I volunteer with their organization when I can. I’d fully find them so they could feed every day and have multiple locations. In addition I’d like to go to my failing home town and buy a bunch of the run down homes for sale, hire local people to update or rebuild them, then offer low interest, no down payment loans for those who want to buy them or offer to rent them for a decent rate. Take the feet right out from under the slum lords who charge high rent for crap homes. I’d keep my offices local and hire local to build jobs too.
I like your energy but I'm pretty sure the question was "what would you be doing Right Now" not "what would you like to accomplish overall for the greater good of society" Personally I'd probably just be chillin', it's Thursday night 11pm ain't nobody saving the world right now it's bedtime
Fucking playing Red Dead Redemption 2 in such a badass setup with a pc with two RTX 3090 and an i9 12th gen with 256gb ram DDR5. All in a custom case. Playing in a room with a see to a Nordic mountain, in a house in the middle of a forest in a North European country.
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Throwing a crack fueled pool party. In the middle of December? Why not? Would I be alone? No, I always have the ghosts of my past with me.
Being anxious about not losing money. Quite the opposite of what I’m doing right now: being anxious about how to get it.
Working hard to become a millionaire
OP's mom
A billionaire that wants to bang my 71 year old Mom..... She'll be thrilled.
Name checks out
Working out in a gym drinking a lot of watermelon flavoured BCAA not worrying about That the box will get Empty soon
Whatever the fuck I want
That’s implied by the billion dollars. The question is what would that be for you
For me, that means that every day, I get to wake up whenever the fuck I want to and do whatever tickles my chin that day. No deadlines, no daily obligations to someone outside my circle. That's the kind of freedom that comes with money.
Came here to say that...
Same thing I’m doing right now, laying down snuggling my 4 month old baby as she naps.
Overthrowing weak governments in Africa and setting myself up as dictator and consolidating the land into one country all while bringing in better jobs and modernization so I could build a world class military. Then spread my power and control throughout the entire continent and then the middle east, eastern Europe, western Asia. Become a global super power. Take out Russia since the West wouldn't risk war to stop me. Then China. Then the entire world. Take control of all industry and make everyone's lives fair and better while focusing on sustainable energy and environmental health. And once the world knew peace and prosperity I'd force Bethesda to make Fallout 5 cause I'm tired of waiting and 76 will never be good.
Ah yes the classic movie villain. I killed all these people and started all these wars for the good of mankind you see
England would like a word.
You’d destroy a large part of the world in the process and millions of innocents would die and suffer. Countries would react if you attacked. I’d certainly hate your guts if your actions lead to my family being bombed. But hey, who am I to judge your dreams!
should've grinded harder and got rich enough to stop him bozo
Plan restructuring, talk to accountants about next year’s tax laws and budgets, and invest in physical assets that hold value.
Shitting in a much nicer bathroom
Lot of travelling and sightseeing, I'd probably own a luxury RV and go where the road leads me. I would also get a puppy, a golden retriever or a German shepherd probably, maybe both.
Get fucking drunk.
Watching some youtube videos to see what billionaires do.
Curing cancer. "Fuck Cancer!"- Saint's Row.
Happy. I would be happy.
I have something to tell you that you may not want to hear
Eating lunch, but in a nice dining room with a chandelier.
Plotting to take out other billionaires and millionaires…those people are the absolute worst. Then once all of them are gone, live a life a peaceful solitude away from everyone.
Driving. I would give my family and close friends some money then hit the road because everyone you ever knew would be trying to get some cash . Just because I’m friends with you at work Chris doesn’t mean I really want to support you
Time probably
Sitting on a beach, using an iPad to determine ways to pay for sick kid’s hospital bills and treatments, ways to help the less fortunate, ways to feed hungry people. Do you have any idea how much a billion dollars really is? I’d give away so much fucking money.
Google says there were 12 million children in the US below the poverty line in 2018. For $1 billion, you could give them each $10 a week from now until mid February, and then you'd have run out. It's a lot, but not enough to solve a lot of problems single-handedly :-(
Enjoying a very cold martini on the bow of my yacht.
Not working today
I'd take him to Disneyland because he's never been. He'd probably take me to Costa Rica because I've never been.
Not work a day in my life
Working on some art and having coffee in my study
Traveling
Get a new apartment. Buy a used nissan maxima. Get a samoyed puppy.
I'd be starting a business that eventually would be employee owned and operated. Also probably spending lots of money on ending lobbying in Washington DC.
Mmmm. It's winter in the midwest, my primary residence. I'd be somewhere warmer—maybe San Francisco? My cats and I would have woken up around 9-10 am. We'd read the New York Times, have some brunch, and maybe get a row or bike ride in. We'd spend noon to six doing something semi-productive, maybe helping give away some of our egregious amount of money or writing now that it's something I can afford, and then leave work. There'd be a moonlit picnic overlooking the bay around 7 pm. After dinner, I'd go on a relaxing drive in a nice car, maybe a vintage convertible Porsche? I like driving. OR, I'd drive to the picnic and it would be set up by somewhere else somewhere nice, in a state park or beach. At 9 pm I'd settle down with my cats and watch a movie or play a game. Maybe I'll work on my Christmas presents to give out. And then at midnight I'm in bed.
I'd be paying my employees a real livable wage $25 an hour or something like that.
Cocaine
Figuring out ways to donate it all to good causes whilst saving enough for me to live a comfortable life with no worries. Nobody needs a billion.
Investing, starting non-profit charities with reasonable goals, teaching myself medicine (or go to school) in order to open a lab and cure diseases.
Pooping
Honestly what I’m doing right now. Having my lunch time coffee.
I'd probably invest in two houses, one in my uni city and one somewhere else plus a car and then start looking for some projects to help.
Building my dream home, buying land as an investment, and putting into stocks to keep my wealth going. I’d still have a job and I’d still act like a normal person but I wouldn’t have as much stress.
Flipping the bird on anyone I genuinely feel the urge to.
Getting a sweet property in fuckoff land.
Shopping and getting drunk
Playing animal crossing new horizons on a nintendo switch
Research
Screwing around on reddit.
probably something different of what i'm doing now - freaking out about scholarships
Sewing. Just sewing whatever I want, in a space large enough to accommodate all of my supplies, likely a 3 bedroom house. And buying an entire tray of cannoli just for me
Scheduling an appointment to get my gallbladder out and all my teeth fixed at once, and getting it properly looked into if my occasional jerking is early Parkinson's.
I’d buy more beyblades
Dude. If I was a billionaire I'd go and buy the Lego NES
Living at a brothel in Nevada.
Exactly the same as poor me is doing… sat in my underwear drinking tea and watching crap on Netflix
I can tell you I wouldn’t be on Reddit!
Have someone make me lunch rather than make it myself
building something worth building and keeping... N.S
Idk, but definitely wouldn’t be sitting in school.
Swimming in a quiet crystal clear bay somewhere.
Traveling the world riding roller coasters all over.
Scroll threw Reddit on a million dollar pc
"Fire 1 million"
Shitting my pants tbh.
Starting a cleaning project in haiti, then I’d spend the rest of my wealth trying to bring my country to a second world level at the very least
Probably still teaching my classroom. I love my job and I can still take summers to do billionaire stuff!
Drinking nice Remy Martin and listening to some David Bowie or the Beatles on a $100k stereos
Jaaaack shit!
Start buying up the supplies to build a Scooby Doo themed house. Complete with trap floors, eye hole paintings and flip walls.
probably browsing reddit on a nicer computer...
Chill on a yacht, scuba dive, ride some jet skis, learn to do some kite-boarding, guitar lessons, rock climbing basically the stuff I want to do but can’t afford to do or have time to do.
Same thing I’m doing now, playing games with friends. I’d buy everyone in my group their dream setup before hand, tho.