What would you do with $1 billion dollars?

[Blanquist]

How would you spend it? What would you do with it?

[NewLeft]

Donate to charity, build a school in Africa, travel the world, volunteer in the third world, experience fine cuisine..

Nah, I'd buy a car and a house.

Or spend it on coke.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Spend it on Pepsi

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Dress up like Dr. Evil

[gorillafuck]

get a small home that I like and not work.

[Pretty Flaco]

buy some fancy ass beer and some fancy ass weed and live in fucking hollywood

[Ele'ill]

burn it

[Leonid Brozhnev]

burn it

Lies!

[Pretty Flaco]

burn it

roll it into joints first

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Buy a genie, tell him my first wish is to have unlimited wishes, be happy for the rest of my life and never work.

[Prometeo liberado]

Spend it all trying to get the Fed. Resv. to issue a 1 Billion dollar bill so that I could put it in my pocket and not the bank. Smart huh?!!:laugh:

[Prometeo liberado]

Donate to charity, build a school in Africa, travel the world, volunteer in the third world, experience fine cuisine..

Nah, I'd buy a car and a house.

Or spend it on coke.

I was so close to labeling you a reformist. Yet after having read the spoilers I think its safe to say that you are a coked up refomer wiith a crash pad and cool ride.

[Ele'ill]

. Smart huh?!!:laugh:

No actually the complete opposite.

[Art Vandelay]

I would mostly likely assemble a drug and alcohol collection that would make Hunter S Thompson proud. Buy a farm somewhere and grow food and stock the place with instruments, recording equipment, typewriters, spray paint, canvases, etc...and make art for the rest of my life. Most likely the "rest of my life" would be about a year tops before my lungs or liver gave out (or else an od) but I would leave behind a collection of work and revolutionary propaganda.

[NorwegianCommunist]

Maybe donate to charity and build schools, hospitals etc in thir world countries. That would be a great thing to do.
But if I got 1 billion dollar, I could become the most selfish person in the world and spend it all on, houses, cars and jets etc.
I don't know until it happens :p

[#FF0000]

buy myself a cabin in norway

stash the rest of it idc

[Blanquist]

I would donate it all to the party treasury.

[Jimmie Higgins]

First I'd travel. I'd go to expensive places I couldn't normally go to like Paris - and after traveling abroad I might rent or buy a bus (take it to "Pimp my Ride" so I get a bed installed and a giant neon and chrome, hookah built into it and the ubiquitious remodel-project flast-screen tv) and travel around the Americas.

I might also buy some apartments in places I'd want to spend part of the year in - like an apartment in NYC (how else could I afford this unless I had a billion :D ) but buy a house in the Bay Area. I think my fantasy house would be a work/live space with a community center/auditorium on the first level and then a living area/offices on the second. Oakland activists are always looking for good cheap spaces, so I'd open up the center and let groups use it for an organizing center.

Hmm, a billion - it's kind of out of my league for my normal finacial fantasies - usually I only go as high as 20 million :lol:

So let's see. Hell maybe I'd buy the Kaiser Center for Occupy Oakland. A billion - maybe I am thinking small. Maybe I'd buy an apartment building and rent units to revolutionaries for $50 a month or an hour a week of building chores. I'd be the slumlord of the left! At any rate, an apartment like that could also become a center for local organizing if there were 30-50 radicals all living in the same place (CP members had something like this in NYC in the 1930s).

What else could I do with that almost unspendable amount of money? I could easily give away maybe 20 million to family (buy houses for my parents and brother) and causes and groups I support.

Hmm, maybe I'd use the money to produce a Hollywood epic about the Russia Revolution or Eugene Debs. Ok, so that's another 100 million down, what else?

Maybe producing a movie wouldn't be a good choice - wouldn't want to be responsible for a left-wing analogue to the Ayn Rand movie some ideologues just self-produced and made.

Instead, maybe I'd buy a movie theater - this could be used as a organizing and meeting space for the local left and let me indulge my acclectic taste in movies without having to worry about showing things that would actually make money. Maybe I could have local bands play.

Oh, yeah. After getting this money I'd throw a huge party with pounds worth or rolled-joints at the door, LSD and MDMA available and I'd hire my favorite local bands to play the party.

Lol. I guess sitting on the BART going to work gives me lots of time to day-dream about a magical and sudden end to my personal poverty.

[MotherCossack]

I would mostly likely assemble a drug and alcohol collection that would make Hunter S Thompson proud. Buy a farm somewhere and grow food and stock the place with instruments, recording equipment, typewriters, spray paint, canvases, etc...and make art for the rest of my life. Most likely the "rest of my life" would be about a year tops before my lungs or liver gave out (or else an od) but I would leave behind a collection of work and revolutionary propaganda.

a most reasoned, right and proper answer....... until.......
or if, in fact....you reach, by some strange turn of events... anything approaching my age.... seems a while away...... but trust me.... it may well arrive a lot sooner than you think.....
and.... you find yourself....revising your priorities.......

whereas life continues to astound you with its maddening random hurtfulness.... you find a growing desire to hang around and see what happens next..... TRUST ME!!!!!!!!! IT WILL HAPPEN!!!!!!

So heed these words they are drenched in mother cossackian wisdom.......
dont get too fucked..... your body is a temple not a toilet.


ps..... i regret none of my excesses..... i only wished they had been a tad less excessive.

[Art Vandelay]

a most reasoned, right and proper answer....... until.......
or if, in fact....you reach, by some strange turn of events... anything approaching my age.... seems a while away...... but trust me.... it may well arrive a lot sooner than you think.....
and.... you find yourself....revising your priorities.......

whereas life continues to astound you with its maddening random hurtfulness.... you find a growing desire to hang around and see what happens next..... TRUST ME!!!!!!!!! IT WILL HAPPEN!!!!!!

So heed these words they are drenched in mother cossackian wisdom.......
dont get too fucked..... your body is a temple not a toilet.


ps..... i regret none of my excesses..... i only wished they had been a tad less excessive.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake

I hope one day I can honestly say that I care enough about my health and continuing my existence, to potentially take care of myself better. Unfortunately that day is not here and frankly may never come, although maybe I will have a mid life epiphany.

P.S. you seem like a pretty wicked lady mama Cossack.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Not sure...give me it and I'll report back with my findings

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Buy books.

[Zav]

Invade Greenland.

Really I'd keep about five million dollars for myself to buy art, rare books, and antique weapons, namely swords, and a bit of land, and spend the rest teaching sex ed and permaculture in Africa for a couple decades.

[Per Levy]

put half of it on a bank, build a house for my future wife and me someplace where we want to live. support family if they are in need of support, buy shitloads of books, start having children, donate some of it to org or parties or whatever that i like. and well beyond that i dont know, its a lot of money, probally to much. im sure my wife would make good use of it though^^.

[Landsharks eat metal]

-Get myself the hell out of here
-Pay for FtM surgeries and hormones
-Travel whenever and wherever I want

[Deicide]

Keep a 100m for myself and start up a charity with the rest.

I wouldn't buy property, as I'd be living in a different part of the world every week or so.

[Blanquist]

What's the point of buying lots of books? You can get most books for free online or visit your local libraries..

[Landsharks eat metal]

What's the point of buying lots of books? You can get most books for free online or visit your local libraries..
-It's hard to focus on reading things on a screen for some people and printing everything out is a pain in the ass.
-Libraries often don't have the books you're looking for, especially if you're looking into revolutionary politics. (Well, maybe other cities do, but Lancaster does not.)

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

What's the point of buying lots of books? You can get most books for free online or visit your local libraries..

Reading from a screen is shit. And reading a book makes you look smart.

[Zav]

What's the point of buying lots of books? You can get most books for free online or visit your local libraries..
Not everyone buys books solely for their content. They are an art form and little pieces of history. Many books are not available online or in most libraries, and some people, myself included, prefer to read hardcopy anyway. Also, it's nice to have a favorite book ready to read whenever you want to.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Not everyone buys books solely for their content. They are an art form and little pieces of history. Many books are not available online or in most libraries, and some people, myself included, prefer to read hardcopy anyway. Also, it's nice to have a favorite book ready to read whenever you want to.Yeah I write in my books so that's a reason for me to buy all but the most disposable reading. Old paperbacks in fiction and sometimes out of print leftist books can be found online at low low prices! In theory I like the idea of digitized books, but I'm not convinced on the current form of it and I'm suspicious of the copyright politics involved (i.e. self-terminating books after a period of subscription to it). I also want to be able to write in them - even if you could type in some note, I'm not sure if that'd be the same.

[Prometeo liberado]

No actually the complete opposite.

That was the whole point there, grumpers.

[bricolage]

not work.
this is the obvious one.

I'd pay people inflated wages to help me run oral history projects.

[Nox]

Get a huge house in LA or something, get a few nice cars, have a lifetime supply of weed, get a superhot girlfriend/wife & be able to do whatever the fuck I want

[CommieTroll]

I'd want to burn it, sit back with a blunt and enjoy the fire but I'd more than likely buy myself a nice place to live, build an underground bunker and turn it into a grow house :)
Travelling would be a necessity, I'd go everywhere, the first place that popped into my head. I'd really want to go on a coke binge and the send the rest to my veins :L

[Ocean Seal]

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I mean what else do billionaires do?

[NewLeft]

I was so close to labeling you a reformist.
Red Rosa was wrong.. :D

[Deicide]

I would purchase my own Island, start my own leftist-sectarian-cult and arm myself with nuclear weapons. My plans to construct Socialism on one Island will be complete.

TRY GET ME THEN IMPERIALISTS HAHA

[Ose]

Copious opiates.

[Raúl Duke]

Become a member of the 1%, unapologetically

Spend half of it in hedge fund/stocks.
Put 50% of the other half in some sort of savings
Donate 150,000,000 to effective charities.
Split 50,000,000 among families and friends I favor.
Spend up the other 50,000,000 in all sorts of stuff.
Than continue to live off the obscene dividends from the other half or so, plus donate whatever amount I don't use of my profits to all sorts of things (like space explorations, grants for worker co-ops, whatever), etc.

[MotherCossack]

a snazzy gaf..... with stairs and curtains and nice clean bog and dishwasher and fitted kitchen... and a little cleaning person/ pal .....garden....
little airoplane for family.....
nice long expedition around the world in 80 days....
gotta go..... domestic situation brewing...

[Princess Luna]

Splurge half of it. Then I would set up 3 bank accounts. The 1st would hold all my money, and at the beginning of every year $142,857.14 (with this amount my money will last 70 years) would transfer from the main account into a second account. And at the beginning of each month $11,904.75 would transfer into a third account. The first and second accounts would be completely untouchable (except in extreme emergencies, like Medical problems), so in essence I would be recieving an $12,000/month salary for doing nothing. Also with the half that I splurge, I would pay for everything up front, 100% and I would not purchase anything that is going to cost me a lot of money later on, like a $300,000 car. It amazes me people who win the lottery, and end up broke 5 years later. Also fuck investing...

[Ostrinski]

Buy some friends.

[ВАЛТЕР]

Make sure my family is well taken care of and wants for nothing. That is first and foremost. Invest it in something that will give me a steady income which will keep my pockets fat and capable of funding anything that may cross my mind.

I would probably open a small cafe too, where I can kind of chill out all day drink beer and have my friends over. I would buy a few apartments in some cities (nothing too fancy) so I can travel and have a place to crash always. Get a nice car, probably a nice little Toyota RAV4 or maybe a VW Golf (again nothing too fancy, I'm not all that into flaunting). I would date bourgeoisie women, play with their emotions, and dump them (the class war will continue on all fronts ;) )

Knowing myself I would most likely fund various radical leftist groups that actually seem to be doing something constructive. I'd probably even buy buildings in cities and give them to the Anarchists to use as a squat since I'm sure those are always needed and they would appreciate that.

Yeah, I'd be a crappy rich guy. Probably still walk around in Jeans and a T-shirt and go out to local pubs.

[Rafiq]

Hide the fact I have it, buy a normal house, etc. But when you walk in it's like insanely futuristic and badass.... Man, I'd have so much cool shit.. Also I'd have my own boat...

[Lanky Wanker]

I'd spend it on £616,105,000.





*Cricket noises*





Nah, I'd give my mum however much of it she needed to pay off whatever the hell we're currently paying off, then I'd spend the rest on a soundproof extension or something for me to play drums in. God I want a fucking drum kit so badly.

[gorillafuck]

Get a huge house in LA or something, get a few nice cars, have a lifetime supply of weed, get a superhot girlfriend/wife & be able to do whatever the fuck I wantgetting a wife doesn't require a billion dollars

[Lanky Wanker]

getting a wife doesn't require a billion dollars

If you want one of "those" wives you do.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

Two chicks at once.

*Fuck yeah Office Space joke*

[Fawkes]

bump this 24/7 on my LRAD sound system
xZ4tNmnuMgQ

[JustMovement]

1 billion= 1,000 million
what the fuck do you do with 1,000 million dollars
Id panic.

[JustMovement]

bump this 24/7 on my LRAD sound system
xZ4tNmnuMgQ
ahaha good timing, I hadnt seen that

[WanderingCactus]

I'd buy a factory and exploit the shit out of some proles.

[The Young Pioneer]

It'd be my luck I'd receive a billion dollars just before the revolution and I'd be sent to a gulag for being a bourgie.

If good fortune was on my side? A house in the town of Pushkin, Russia; a seaside flat on the Croatian coast; a house somewhere in the US that I find to my liking; I'd probably give a million to a decent airline with the agreement that I get to travel anywhere I want, whenever I want; and then I'd save a couple million more to live on and donate the rest to poor people I meet on the streets in various traveling escapades.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Did someone say gulag? Whatever the post is about, yes!

[Veovis]

I would hire an army of manservants to... manservice me. :cool:

[Jimmie Higgins]

It's interesting how winning a big lotto or bet is the modern equivalent of finding a genie or leprechaun. And only slightly more plausable.

[MotherCossack]

let me try again.... i'd buy the priory and move in... and turn it into a haven for piss artists and other artists to cultivate a safe environment for doing art....iwould dedicate half of it to meaningful art that promotes revolution.... and take little ones on a voyage of discovery.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

I would use to help fund Technocracy and Anarchist groups, as well as to fund Transhumanist research. Also I would buy a serval and a log cabin fortress in the middle of the mojave.

[Magón]

Buy my own personal security force, buy a big metropolis and turn it into my own mass arena where I'd have the citizens of that metropolis fight against one another for my favor . . . and food, water, proper shelter, etc.

Whoever wins will be in my favor, but be put to death shortly afterwards because I'll quickly find them too powerful and a threat to my own rule over the metropolis, thus continuing the circle of the citizens fighting to live another day.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Revive Engels and Bakunin, and Stalin and Trotsky, buy a transparent cage for each pair, put each pair together in their separate transparent cages, grab popcorn, watch the show.

[Firebrand]

Hmmm, I think i'd buy Nick Clegg and David Cameron and then send them off into the wilderness with no food. And intall cameras everywhere. And see how long it takes before they eat each other. And then sell the footage to ITV to make a reality tv programme about. And then use the money from the reality tv programme to buy more politicians for season 2. And when i'd run out of brittish politicians i'd move onto american ones, and then maybe the whole EU parliament as a christmas special.

[Zostrianos]

Use a portion of it to set up secular charities in 3rd world countries, not only to help the poor but also to curb the influence of parasitic Christian missionary "charities", who provide charity in exchange for conversion.

[Krano]

Did someone say gulag? Whatever the post is about, yes!
$1b Gulag that looks like a disco tec and blast this music.

lwoSFQb5HVk

[bcbm]

not work. drink

[Misanthrope]

Samir, you're missing the point. The point of the exercise is that you're supposed to figure out what you would want to do if... "PC Load Letter"? What the fuck does that mean?

[corolla]

The thought of it makes me want to cry.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

The thought of it makes me want to cry.

Yeah, having a lot of money must suck so much. I don't even want to think about it. Oh the horror.