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

  • migo
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    12 years 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.

    • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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      02 years 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.

  • @AbstractLinguist@lemmy.world
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    02 years ago

    Set up a philanthropic trust, invest it in a relatively safe mix of stocks and bonds, and set up distributions as a % of growth to a bunch of institutions I think are super important.

    After buying a nicer house and paying off family debts and stuff of course.

  • HousePanther
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    02 years 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.

  • Poggervania
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    02 years 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.