if you won $10,000,000

[ed miliband]

what would you do? i still need to think about my answer.

[Vanguard1917]

Turn into an arsehole (unintentionally).

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

what would you do? i still need to think about my answer.

Flip it and double it.

[Q]

Stop working. Make a world trip for a few years. Help out revolutionary groups. Live a good life for me and my family.

Obvious answer I think.

[Il Medico]

I'd travel around for a few years. Then once I had decided on which country I liked the best, I'd drop a few million to buy a nice big house. In that house I'd build a huge library. I'd also pick myself up a nice collection of suits and a stylish old car. After that I'd invest the rest in a varied portfolio and be set for life.

Either that or I'd drop it all on wholesale heroin and become a drug kingpin. :lol:

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

Join Shining Path and advance the People's War of course.

[Ostrinski]

Travel. Get a bunch of books. Buy a huge land plot in a conservative area and turn it into a drug infested orgy based commune that enforces atheism with large pictures of Reagan and Thatcher engaging in all kinds of debauchery all over the place.

[Luc]

withdraw as much as possible from society only buying food and bills stuff

[PC LOAD LETTER]

buy some land and build a modest house on it then never work again because the interest on $10,000,000 would be plenty to live off of (you could easily get $20,000-40,000 of a 1-year CD, and that's without working with an investment firm)

[ВАЛТЕР]

This:

http://splashysplash.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ghostface-killah-jesus-piece-gold-jewelry-chains.jpg

[Ismail]

Buy a lot of books, invest in a very good scanner and proceed to put non-copyrighted ones online. Go on revleft.com and use my ever-expanding knowledge of everything to single-handedly win every debate and force my opponents to admit defeat and subsequently convert to Mormonism.

[Manic Impressive]

Go on revleft.com and use my ever-expanding knowledge of everything to single-handedly win every debate and force my opponents to admit defeat and subsequently convert to Mormonism.
On this theme I'd buy Revleft, ban everyone and then declare myself the winner.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Stop working. Make a world trip for a few years. Help out revolutionary groups. Live a good life for me and my family.

Obvious answer I think.


Travel. Get a bunch of books. Buy a huge land plot in a conservative area and turn it into a drug infested orgy based commune that enforces atheism with large pictures of Reagan and Thatcher engaging in all kinds of debauchery all over the place.

These basically. I'd make sure I was economically secure, then give a bunch to relatives and friends and maybe set up some kind of trust fund or something to direct some money to radical organizations or movements. I'd buy a place to live that could be used as an auditorium or workshop - like a warehouse or old church or something (both for my own use and for parties, but also as a place for organizing and possibly music performances. Once I got over the intital shock of suddenly having money (and the massive hangover I'd feed over the course of the first few weeks of drink and drugs and house parties with local bands I like hired to play) then I'd definately travel.

I really can't wrap my head around how far 10 million would go, so I'm not sure if this is too ambitious or too frugal.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

Buy a cinema and let people come in to watch for free but only show revolutionary films.

[ind_com]

I would stop working and write long articles against vanguardism and socialism in one country.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

I'd buy stuff.

[Let's Get Free]

I'd show up to my workplace in a fur coat and enough jewelry on to make Mr T look Amish, and I'd stay just long enough to take a crap on my boss' desk.

[Manic Impressive]

I really can't wrap my head around how far 10 million would go, so I'm not sure if this is too ambitious or too frugal.
$10,000,000 isn't that much really. It's equivelent to about £7,500,000 - there are houses in London that cost that much. Nice houses. But still it's not Oprah rich.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Buy a porsche. Travel. Buy some more expensive shit. Help out saving Lions and Tigers in Africa. Buy some more shit. Travel a bit more. Buy a fairly big house and install the coolest fuckin' shower/wet room ever. I'm talking accurate temperature controls to 0.1 centigrate, radio, loadsa pumps, CD player, cool lights and shit. yeahhhhh.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Buy a porsche. Travel. Buy some more expensive shit. Help out saving Lions and Tigers in Africa. Buy some more shit. Travel a bit more. Buy a fairly big house and install the coolest fuckin' shower/wet room ever. I'm talking accurate temperature controls to 0.1 centigrate, radio, loadsa pumps, CD player, cool lights and shit. yeahhhhh.
aaaaaaaaaaand you're broke again

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Tbh if i've got the car, the house and just a few hundred thousand in the bank to continue travelling, what more could I want? I'd be living the rich lifestyle! With 10mil you're not exactly gonna be able to have your own jet or anything anyway.

[Q]

With 10mil you're not exactly gonna be able to have your own jet or anything anyway.

Actually, for a lousy $400k you can apparently already buy this:

http://www.priorityonejets.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Falcom-10-Ext.gif

Not too shabby.

[piet11111]

Buy land in England far away from people build a nice house on it and do absolutely fuck all for the rest of my life while living comfortably and as self sufficient as possible.

And pay of the debts of my relatives.

[bcbm]

invest in some shit, live large for a few years, lose it all in the next crash, drink myself to death in a motel with weekly rates

[Landsharks eat metal]

Pay for the best possible FTM medical transition for myself. No idea how much money will be left after that, but I kind of don't give a shit. Probably just travel a lot and go meet awesome RevLefters that live far away. (Yeah, I'm that pathetic)

[Ostrinski]

Buy Tiqqun and all things Tiqqun and turn it into a Trotskyist journal

[#FF0000]

put about half of it in banks (there are accounts where you get like .1 percent compound interest per day but you need to put in at least 250,000 or something). Buy a cabin in the frozen north somewhere and become a recluse and learn every instrument i can

[Ele'ill]

drugs and guns

[Jimmie Higgins]

drug-guns.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Never sure until it's in your account, but I think I'd spend a reasonable amount on a nice 4 bed for the family, a car and a couple of needless extravagances (home cinema system, Gibson Les Paul, some collectible geeky shit).
Then I would want to give most of what's left to charities, NGOs and political groups, that would be the hardest bit (who to give what to and how to persuade my wife to allow any money to go to a political organisation)

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Actually, for a lousy $400k you can apparently already buy this:

http://www.priorityonejets.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Falcom-10-Ext.gif

Not too shabby.

Wonder how much it'd cost to get John Travolta to fly me 'round in that? :lol:

[Art Vandelay]

Well I guess half of it, would belong to my better half, so I guess the first thing I'd have to do is take voxy and myself on a honeymoon somewhere. I'd probably snort coke and drink Jhonnie walker gold the whole time. After that I'd want to buy a plot of land somewhere and build a modest abode. Do some traveling. Definitely a gibson les paul like Dennis said. I've never planned on having much money in my life so I can't really say I'd know what to do with it.

[Let's Get Free]

Id by a room full of gold coins and dive in it

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[roy]

get a nice place, travel, chill, never ever forever work

[goalkeeper]

Get drunk in Dalston with the homies.

[skitty]

Aren't those of you drowning yourselves in luxury becoming what you despise? For those who would donate a pile of cash to a cause/organisation, any suggestions or preferences? Where would it do the most good?

[Art Vandelay]

Aren't those of you drowning yourselves in luxury becoming what you despise? For those who would donate a pile of cash to a cause/organisation, any suggestions or preferences? Where would it do the most good?

Communism isn't a lifestyle choice; plus the proletarian condition is bunk.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Use it to fund a militia in a failed state somewhere.

[skitty]

Use it to fund a militia in a failed state somewhere.
Texas?

[Os Cangaceiros]

No, Texas won't be as easy for my mercenaries to plunder the countryside for loot and "new recruits".

[Comrade Samuel]

Go to Wal-Mart and cash it all in for pennies, pay a mad scientist to reanimate Lenin- we will party hard with crystal meth, fund a rouge state, rot in a federal prison until the age of 72 at which point I will be released and live the rest of my days as a pubic hair styleist in Newfoundland.

[Manic Impressive]

Tigers in Africa.
:confused: you may have trouble finding them if you're looking in Africa

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Never be sober again.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Aren't those of you drowning yourselves in luxury becoming what you despise? For those who would donate a pile of cash to a cause/organisation, any suggestions or preferences? Where would it do the most good?I don't think we generally despise living a good life of ease and luxury - we despise that we live under a system where a tiny number of people live that kind of life but only by ensuring that the rest of us are kept on a short wage-leash. I think we'd want everyone to have access to nice things, entertainment, personal enrichment (which could be drugs - though I might categorize that as "entertainment"), and an easy life where they get time to live and travel and do whatever.

So if somehow I magically ran into a bunch of money, I would make sure I don't have to work or worry about growing sick or old and not being able to take care of myself, but then money that I gave to any causes would be based around my estimation of if I think that giving that money would actually go towards people being able to organize themselves. Here in Oakland, I would definately want to have a big public meeting area because there isn't much of a geographic political hub and so a place where grassroots groups could go an organize and hold meetings and put on panels and events I think would help create a small center of gravity for local organizing outside of catholic and black churches and liberal NGOs as is generally the case now. If occupy Oakland was still going, I'd give them money, etc.

But since this is fanstasy, I don't really keep a mental list of where I'd put my millions - I focus now on where I can put my time (and my limited organizing skills) since I have more of that than money (though not much of either :lol:).

[Sasha]

http://powerplants.vattenfall.nl/sites/default/files/imagecache/large/sites/default/files/hemweg.jpg

i would buy this huge, soon to retired, electricity plant on the border of amsterdam that's for sale for about 10 mil and convert it to the most kickass fortified freestate one can think off...

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

i'd make a work of art out of it. dish it out here and there, buy ridiculous cars, crash them, buy ridiculous multi-coloured tweed-suits, give wads of cash to homeless people casually, buy a vast range of mind-altering chemicals and experiment with them on a daily basis, drink the most expensive cognac, attract as much media attention as possible, buy buildings and give the keys to homeless people and aim to be dead within a year or two of winning the money. obviously i'd look after my family as capitalism has conditioned me in such a way where this seems necessary. i'd want the money to be spread about all over the place upon my demise.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

:confused: you may have trouble finding them if you're looking in Africa

Probably focus more on Lions. I don't really know anything about Tigers, I just find it sad how much their numbers have dwindled.

I have a strong affection for Lions though.

[Manic Impressive]

Lions = Africa
Tigers = Asia
Ligers = Awesome

[bcbm]

Aren't those of you drowning yourselves in luxury becoming what you despise?

i despise the wealthy because they have it and i dont

[Ele'ill]

I changed my mind about drugs and guns I think I'd first build Jurassic Park then smoke a lot of pot and watch dinosaurs every day

[Vanguard1917]

Why do so many long for the idle lifestyles of the decadent aristocracy?

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

Why do so many long for the idle lifestyles of the decadent aristocracy?
Aristocrats don't have to be careful with their money. Poor people do. Hence, in reverse...

I wish I could afford to be truly decadent.

[Pawn Power]

You are all unimaginative and boring. Or alcoholics.

Also counter revolutionaries for not donating large sums your winnings to radical groups.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Why do so many long for the idle lifestyles of the decadent aristocracy?

Because it's better provisioned than the meagre lifestyles of the broke proletariat?

Come on VG1917, I thought you weren't down with that "revolutionary asceticism" bullcrap? Or is self-denial only a bad thing when it's done for environmental reasons?

Besides, I say the use of the word "decadence" as a moralistic judgement on lifestyle is utterly without rational basis. What is wrong with luxury in itself, rather than the fact that not everyone can enjoy it?

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Also, I think a case can be made that (some?) luxuries of yesteryear can become common products of the future.

Personal transportation was once the reserve of those who could afford to look after horses, or pay footmen to carry a litter, or maintain a chariot. Now we have various motor vehicles and bicycles. Meat was once a rare treat for anyone but the uppermost, but now thanks to modern agricultural production it's cheap enough to be a regular part of the meals of hundreds of millions. Ordinary people's homes and clothing are more colourful and intricate than they have ever been, and effective medical treatment is much more widely available.

Industrialisation and mass production form the basis for such advancements in quality of life - if we want all humans on this planet to enjoy a comfortable and dignified life in freedom, then that basis requires significant improvement and expansion, or the advent of something better.

[bcbm]

Why do so many long for the idle lifestyles of the decadent aristocracy?

because we've had jobs?

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

because we've had jobs?

yeah this.

Fuck work and the taxman.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Well I guess half of it, would belong to my better half, so I guess the first thing I'd have to do is take voxy and myself on a honeymoon somewhere. I'd probably snort coke and drink Jhonnie walker gold the whole time.

:) Awwwe.


I changed my mind about drugs and guns I think I'd first build Jurassic Park then smoke a lot of pot and watch dinosaurs every day

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/KillaLopez/Facebook_Like_thumbs_up_small.png

[#FF0000]

You are all unimaginative and boring. Or alcoholics.

i thought my idea was good.

[goalkeeper]

You are all unimaginative and boring. Or alcoholics.

Also counter revolutionaries for not donating large sums your winnings to radical groups.

Meh, I'd rather not give it to an org so they can make their unreadable shitty newspapers a bit more glossy.

[goalkeeper]

Who wants to give money to these left wing rackets; let them keep raking it in from membership dues from freshers student loans

[Manic Impressive]

Also counter revolutionaries for not donating large sums your winnings to radical groups.
That's because true revolutionaries would only donate anonymously so as not to be seen as exerting any unwarranted influence over a movement due to the size of their wallets. So we're all keeping quite just in case it really happens to us :D

[PC LOAD LETTER]

You are all unimaginative and boring. Or alcoholics.

Also counter revolutionaries for not donating large sums your winnings to radical groups.
Yeah I'd rather have a modest place to live and never work again so I can enjoy my time on this shitty planet than give a shitload of money to some blowhards who claim to be teh tr00 party of teh proletariatzz!

[Vanguard1917]

Because it's better provisioned than the meagre lifestyles of the broke proletariat?

Come on VG1917, I thought you weren't down with that "revolutionary asceticism" bullcrap? Or is self-denial only a bad thing when it's done for environmental reasons?

Yeah, don't misunderstand. I'm all for the good life for all. Just querying the wish to lounge like a country gentleman while the rest of society remains unchanged.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

I wish to add to my initial response, I would then use all my wealth to create a flying machine like Prudent in Master of the World and become the female Captain Robur.

Disarm or perish.

[Pawn Power]

Meh, I'd rather not give it to an org so they can make their unreadable shitty newspapers a bit more glossy.

I'm said "radical groups," not "antiquated and our of touch commies."

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Yeah, don't misunderstand. I'm all for the good life for all. Just querying the wish to lounge like a country gentleman while the rest of society remains unchanged.

If a proletarian chances across a sum of money sufficient for them to put their feet up for the rest of their life, I ain't gonna begrudge them that. It's precisely what I would do.

[bcbm]

Yeah, don't misunderstand. I'm all for the good life for all. Just querying the wish to lounge like a country gentleman while the rest of society remains unchanged.

being determines consciousness.

[Ele'ill]

Yeah, don't misunderstand. I'm all for the good life for all. Just querying the wish to lounge like a country gentleman while the rest of society remains unchanged.


I will lounge and smoke reef with the gentleman dinosaurs in the country until they get loose and change society for ever.

[cynicles]

Prepare an arsenal of weapons for when climate change dries out the US and hordes of American begin fleeing across the border into Canada. I'll then start an organization called the 22 minutemen and try to prevent them from crossing the border illegally to get to our water. What any sane individual would do or buy all the hash currently being manufactured in the middle east. Screw that actually I want more money, crazy schemes can't pay for themselves and I want to be able to afford more then 1.

[Vanguard1917]

If a proletarian chances across a sum of money sufficient for them to put their feet up for the rest of their life, I ain't gonna begrudge them that. It's precisely what I would do.

Yes, but presumably you're not an average proletarian, in the sense that you might have strong political ideals that you're willing to live by and perhaps even die for.

I'd like to think that many of us would not be bought off so easily. But, indeed, who can really know for sure what changes in personality and outlook such riches would bring about in them...?

[Prometeo liberado]

invest in some shit, live large for a few years, lose it all in the next crash, drink myself to death in a motel with weekly rates

You had me at "weekly rates".

I'd get an old Cadillac, take out the windshield and make a drunken run to the Mexican border with a backseat full of underage girls screaming something about "Glee" and the high cost of premium dope. What dreams!

[Goblin]

Buy a fleshlight

[Luc]

Buy a fleshlight

high-end japanese love dolls are where its at

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

high-end japanese love dolls are where its at

Bourgeois decadent.

[Luc]

Bourgeois decadent.

go big or go home

[bcbm]

Yes, but presumably you're not an average proletarian, in the sense that you might have strong political ideals that you're willing to live by and perhaps even die for.

in the west?


I'd like to think that many of us would not be bought off so easily. But, indeed, who can really know for sure what changes in personality and outlook such riches would bring about in them...?

i want the world to change more than anything but if offered an easy in to the scum of our planet i would run with it

[Pawn Power]

Basically, most people's answer here is "no I wouldn't sell out!... unless the offer is big enough."

[Art Vandelay]

Communism isn't a lifestyle choice, if someone has the chance to alleviate themselves from the proletarian condition, then do it up.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Basically, most people's answer here is "no I wouldn't sell out!... unless the offer is big enough."
Having a chance to not work myself to death =/= "selling out"


I'd be doing the same things I do now ... sans a shitty job and with a nice little modest house in a rural area.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Yes, but presumably you're not an average proletarian, in the sense that you might have strong political ideals that you're willing to live by and perhaps even die for.

I'd like to think that many of us would not be bought off so easily. But, indeed, who can really know for sure what changes in personality and outlook such riches would bring about in them...?

What difference would 10 mil make, really? The Koch brothers have more than that, and that's only two of them.

If the proletariat are to win, it won't be because of any amount of capital on their side.

[Decolonize The Left]

1. Make sure my family and friends are set for the rest of their lives.
2. Take care of myself: But large plot of land, build sweet house which is self-sustaining (i.e. farm, renewable energy, water, etc...). Invest large sum and live off interest.
3. Build enormous library. Stock with literature.
4. Contribute to revleft so it can run forever.
5. Have ridiculous party. Consume ridiculous quantities of drugs and alcohol. You all are invited.
6. Recover.
7. Carry wad of cash and give $100 to every homeless person I see. (Have entourage to discourage being robbed.)
8. Oh, build sweet jazz club in 1950's style and chill there all day every day.

That's all I got for right now.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

1. Make sure my family and friends are set for the rest of their lives.
2. Take care of myself: But large plot of land, build sweet house which is self-sustaining (i.e. farm, renewable energy, water, etc...). Invest large sum and live off interest.
3. Build enormous library. Stock with literature.
4. Contribute to revleft so it can run forever.
5. Have ridiculous party. Consume ridiculous quantities of drugs and alcohol. You all are invited.
6. Recover.
7. Carry wad of cash and give $100 to every homeless person I see. (Have entourage to discourage being robbed.)
8. Oh, build sweet jazz club in 1950's style and chill there all day every day.

That's all I got for right now.
Ray's Boom Boom Room?


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[Art Vandelay]

1. Make sure my family and friends are set for the rest of their lives.
2. Take care of myself: But large plot of land, build sweet house which is self-sustaining (i.e. farm, renewable energy, water, etc...). Invest large sum and live off interest.
3. Build enormous library. Stock with literature.
4. Contribute to revleft so it can run forever.
5. Have ridiculous party. Consume ridiculous quantities of drugs and alcohol. You all are invited.
6. Recover.
7. Carry wad of cash and give $100 to every homeless person I see. (Have entourage to discourage being robbed.)
8. Oh, build sweet jazz club in 1950's style and chill there all day every day.

That's all I got for right now.


I'm so going to call you on #5 when the time comes.