What would you do with two billion dollars?

I'd put half of it in a savings account and leave the other to be spent.

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  • I can't even realistically comprehend how much purchasing power is in 2 billion dollars.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Give it to my mom, and let her retire.  She would know what to do with money more than I would.
  • Convert it into pounds and pay off my student debt.
  • And then buy a clock tower and build a library inside of it.

    And live in it.
  • kill living beings
    two friggin billion? i'd put a million in a bank and then donate the rest to the MSF or something
  • kill living beings
    i can't even understand one billion dollars. that's, like, enough to run the entire latvian military for a decade.
  • play vintage

    with only 2 billion? i guess if you buy white bordered duals and like an italian mana drain you might be able to pull it off
  • i can't even understand one billion dollars. that's, like, enough to run the entire latvian military for a decade.

    now there's a good use of the money.
  • kill living beings
    why do you support latvian aggression
  • edited 2016-06-07 23:03:25
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    Freaking dweebs.

    I'd pay for college, at least. Also buy some media for all my friends. Eat some cake. I'm honestly really bad at these questions when suddenly having to think about it.
  • why do you support latvian aggression

    because Latvia finally needs to be recognized as one of the premier nations of the world.

    where would we be without all the Latvian contributions to our technology and culture
  • I learned of the existence of latvia from the novel holes by louis sachar
  • kill living beings
    alternately it's a little (FORTY MILLION, WHICH IS TINY BY COMPARISON) under three times the entire revenue of the MSF last year, or half the net income of Kroger last year. alternately you could give every person in France fifteen dollars.

    so much money. loadsamoney. nobody knows what to do with that much money
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I'd sponsor a coup somewhere and install myself as a dictator.
  • now I have to figure out if you meant "Medicins Sans Frontiers" or "Motorcycle Safety Foundation" by "The MSF"
  • kill living beings
    that MSF doesn't publish its budget audits
  • Pay off my student loans, make sure each and every person on this site is living fairly comfortably, reserve three chunks for assisting others, personal investment, and general whimsy, respectively, and throw the rest at various causes.
  • that MSF doesn't publish its budget audits

    I listed two MSFs!
  • kill living beings
    What, you want me to just give you the answer? I have more integrity than that, lady
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    I'd sponsor a coup somewhere and install myself as a dictator.

    "I could be his spiritual guru! Offer my views on world peace. Suggest ways he can help the strays and impounded take over his mind until he does my bidding and I take over the world!"
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    Pay off my student loans, make sure each and every person on this site is living fairly comfortably, reserve three chunks for assisting others, personal investment, and general whimsy, respectively, and throw the rest at various causes.

    this is a good answer
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Yarrun's answer is good.

    I would also buy some fuzz pedals.
  • I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    I would hire a company to manage my money and make money by having money. What I would do with it depends on how much money my money would make monthly. 

    Chances are it'd be a heckuva lot, so pay off debts, then make sure everyone here is in a good monetary situation, set up some auto-donations, then retire. Probably not retire, though, maybe make my own little business. Or work part time for someone who doesn't know I'm super rich, because running your own business sounds pretty stressful. I'd get ridiculously bored, so I dunno. 
  • I'd invest the bulk in renewable energy, which is both highly profitable and highly ethical. On average, I could probably expect at least 3% to come back in dividends p.a., which comes out as 60 million per year in income (before tax). That's much more than enough income to substantially support political reform efforts and/or fund Marxist insurgents in South America, so
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Anonus said:

    I'd sponsor a coup somewhere and install myself as a dictator.

    "I could be his spiritual guru! Offer my views on world peace. Suggest ways he can help the strays and impounded take over his mind until he does my bidding and I take over the world!"
    what's this from?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    101 Dalmatians: The Series
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