• \[DUMBASS]/@aussie.zone
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    Shut up and tell absofukinglutely no one about it, then I would work out a way to secretly siphon it off to people I like.

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    I’d spawn a million tons of cash above every single capitalist’s house and let them be suffocated to death by the thing they love most

  • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
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    Tell no one, live in my tiny house, buy high quality jeans, travel a lot by myself, get a library’s worth of books, and make art/video games all day.

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    • Tell absolutely no one.
    • Helping the people who did help me when I was in need of help.
    • Live an simple, boring life.
    • Continue studying what I like (I love learning).
  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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    Build and buy media networks and hire the best investigative journalists. Back centre-left political parties worldwide and back unions and backstop strike funds until the whole world strikes like the French. Fund electrified mass transit, renewable energy and passivehouse construction and urban controlled-environment agriculture. Fund orphanages, school food programs and poverty alleviation and social justice causes.

    I’d also start an eco-religion whose funding goes to a land trust that buys important and sensitive lands to return to wilderness and 50% can be lightly used by humans as national parks and 50% is forbidden for humans at all. Church of Gaia. The church would have monks who work as rangers/land defenders to enforce the holy order.

    I would live a quiet simple life in a relatively modest but comfortable passive house on a permaculture farm. My “car” would be a selection of percheron horses and a small selection of carriage/wagons.

  • SpicyLengthiness@lemmy.ca
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    If we had lots of time, then it’s easy. Just buy total market index funds and sit and wait. This is why vampires are usually rich. If you’ve lived that long, and you’re not rich, you’re doing something wrong.

    $2 at 7% a year for 50 years = $58.91

    $2 at 7% a year, for 500 years = $1,505,863.24

    The power of compound interest!

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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    Yes, it has happened to me.

    I had put my money into the ticket vending machine on the train platform. The ticket came out, but the machine could not cut off the paper properly. Well, not too serious, I could live with that ticket that was looking just a little bit crumpled. After several seconds, an error message appeared on the screen. Then the machine decided to give me my money back. So I had both: my ticket and my money.

    I liked that so much that I tried it again, and it gave exactly the same result again.

    I could probably have repeated it for hours, but then my train appeared. :-)

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      When I was young we had a postage stamp vending machine.
      And I believe it had a bunch of stamps peeking out from under it. And also tried to extract some more. Took as many as I could, which ended in about 5 or 10€ in postage stamps :)