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The Powerball lottery is up to $1 billion tonight. If you won it, what would you do?

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[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 1 points 1 year ago

Among other things, I’d keep going to work. I enjoy my job. What I’ll really enjoy is every time someone tries to pawn off something on me that’s not actually my job I’ll tell them, “not my job”

[-] AidsAcrossAmerica@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Buy a bottle of McCallans 12yr and a 8ball and see where I wake up next week.

[-] migo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Keep a million for fun, everything else, buy a very conservative and diversified portfolio, borrow against it and purchase real estate worldwide in places with water access and least affected by climate change. With profits start funding antifa, anarcho-syndicalist, ecosocialist, and similar movements.

[-] TheYear2525@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How to get assassinated by the CIA in 3 easy steps!

[-] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

More power to you comrade.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago

If you are buying real estate, you won't be funding "antifa" or any of the other things you are fantasizing. Profit-bearing RealEstate is directly counter to all of those movments, and once they start threatening you, you'll immediately pivot to funding the status-quo.

[-] rabs@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Realistically, and assuming I claimed it and handled the financial and legal aspects of having that much money, I’d do this;

Pay off my debts, as well as those of my parents and sister, then help friends pay off everything. Then buy a nice house and nice stuff, leave my job, then travel.

Then I’d see what sorts of things I can use my money to improve, or who I can help.

While money is nice for security, I don’t need or want anywhere remotely close to 1$billion at one time. That amount of money is dangerous.

[-] UltimoGato@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Not tell anyone and just quietly retire. Spend as much time as possible with my kids as they grow.

[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Give my uncles, aunts and cousins a cool mil each, give my mom and my sister 10 mil each, buy some real estate on the coasts, and most likely fund some Democrats in Florida and Texas, do some traveling

[-] DoisBigo@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 1 year ago

Keep playing to get more rich.

Most professional gamblers quit just before a big victory. I won't make that mistake.

[-] An_Ugly_Bastard@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I think you’re right. I’ll put my whole welfare check on powerball tonight.

[-] darvocet@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Have you considered a payday loan so you could buy for next months welfare check as well? Don’t want to miss out for sure.

[-] rambos@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I would come back here and give 1 mil to everyone who upvote me and 2 mil for op

[-] Poggervania@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Pay off all debts and mortgages for myself and my immediate family, then put away whatever’s away into separate HYSAs for a few months to let the initial rush go away.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website -1 points 1 year ago

Keep it a secret.

[-] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com -1 points 1 year ago

If I won the lottery, I would start by ending the homeless problem in my state. All it would take would be one stroke of the pen and many people's lives would be improved.

[-] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

and then you start getting sued cause someone hurt themselves in one of the homes you put them in, or it burned down, or any of a thousand other reasons, because greedy shitheads exist and are plentiful and will gladly turn your sweet treat into acid in your mouth in a heart beat if they think they can squeeze more blood out of you.

[-] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com -1 points 1 year ago

I would definitely have to lawyer up and get as much of my ass covered as possible. Huzzah!

[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Noble, but I've got some very bad news about how much it would take to end homelessness in even the smallest state in the country, as even if the 500 mil you'd be left with after taxes could do it, which it couldn't, more homeless people would move to that state immediately

[-] darthfabulous42069@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Utah managed to do it and they're doing just fine.

[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

ok. you can afford to fund Utah's homeless problem for 1.5 years, with 500 million, which is what you'd be left with after winning the 1 Billion dollar lottery

https://utahstories.com/2022/10/the-300-million-utah-homeless-question/#:~:text=Answered%20by%20Utah's%20Foremost%20State,year%20on%20Utah's%20homeless%20services.

[-] darthfabulous42069@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

You can always start a foundation to keep the money flowing in. People would donate

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago

Foundations do not exist to solve problems. They exist so their founders can profit either socially and financially off of them.

this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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