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Comment on: If you had $100 billion to give away, how would you spend it?

Bigthink — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:32:28 +0100

One hundred billion? Wow! Well, I have always said I would love to start a math scholarship for those that have ever gotten less than a C in math and decided to drop out of college as a result. I would also start a ballet scholarship for children of poor families. I would also start a shuttle service for the remote area where I live as financially disadvantaged teenagers hitchhike to get around. I would also invest it in schools and communities around me. I would buy a king size bed and a large villa in Italy to walk naked and shoeless through and spend my days learning how to paint like the masters.

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Bigthink — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:19:41 +0100

Great Question: So first of all, I would take care of myself. Pay off my 6000$ Loan from my dad. Buy a modest house I can work from and put a little bit away for when i'm old. After that, well divy it up as best I can. Development alternative Fuel Sources. Aids and Cancer Research. Buy a computer for everyone who does not have one, or even refurbish some of the old ones with old parts and reuse what otherwise might end up in a dump. Some other things that people mentioned that I like are worldwide education, birth control and family planning. OH, and of course I would buy out every politician to legalize marijuana and use the money MADE from it to fund other things like Alcohol rehabilitation. I might even buy an island and start a completely revolutionary country where you are the government and all decisions are made through a country wide poll. TRUE democracy. Or atlease as TRUE as I know. Whatever is left over, I would simply hand out to those in need. If I was walking down the street and saw someone fumbling for chagnge, toss them a twenty. You see kids in a grocery store staring at the expensive Brand foods. I'd give their mom 100$. I'd go into schools and see what I might be able to improve. I'd go to Africa and Help out the AFRICYCLE charity in helping communities build bike shops and repair them and give them hope. I would buy walmart and close it. Cause it's killing merchants and individual creativity when it comes to comerce. I would just do anything positive and productive. Never on food, drugs, anything that I do not see as an investment. (Those arguing that buying brand food for kids is not an investment, I say joy is an investment)

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Bigthink — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:55:36 +0100

i think i should organize a trust fund or investment fund yielding about four percent and earn approximately four hundred million anually with which i might then organize a team of experts and tackle some of the world's greatest delimas including helping to educate third world countries who actually wanted the help identifying what industries they [the third world countries] may make the most contribution to the world economy giving them honor and improving their lives in buying power so they too can waste vast amounts of time on frivolous games and computer toys.

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Bigthink — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:08:49 +0100

I would invest money in my harem of prostitutes and my coke dealer.

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Bigthink — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:20:50 +0100

i would bribe governments of certain countries in the world to stand down and then establish my own government made up of all my cleverest, good natured friends that i know, and we would run the country in the fairest way possible, doing everything we could to provide every basic human right for every good natured man woman and child. Anyone who opposes me will drown.

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Bigthink — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:37:43 +0100

I would use it towards developing alternative fuel options for the largest consumers of gasoline in the world. Americans. Then we can eliminate the dependency we have on the OPEC countries.

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Bigthink — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:41:17 +0100

I would give it to the Heart of the World...

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Bigthink — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:33:48 +0100

give to a microlending organization such as microplace

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Bigthink — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:45:59 +0100

I liked your first answer. Think of the computer as a means for everyone in the world to have education and it makes sense. Similar to what One Laptop Per Child is about. See to it that all in the world have an education and all in the world will benefit (learn how to feed the poor, clean water, clean environment, cure diseases, no more war, etc.). Of course high speed Internet along with that computer will be important as well.

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Bigthink — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:35:48 +0100

well we all say that we do this and that.. but infact bill gates is almost that rich? i dont see him doing what we say we would do? maybe donateing or something but not acutaly helping when he could have a huge inpact.

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Bigthink — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:33:52 +0100

First i would buy a nice boat... then a mansion and then 3 or 4 realy nice cars.. and a huge memmorial of my self.. THEN WITH The rest of 99 billion i would guarentee to donate most of it to find a cure for cancer.. then i wud spend the rest on africa.. because they need help :P

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Bigthink — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:33:02 +0100

I would earn more money so I can spend more money in making the world better. You know that is nearly impossible.

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Bigthink — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:49:15 +0100

While focusing immediately on potable water, food, and shelter for all humans, I would focus primarily on access to birth control and family planning for every human while combining it with basic education about the impact of humans on other species.

Corporate interest married organized religion and for the past 100 years they have used antibiotics to keep every possible consumer alive. While rationing out gruel and penicillin to ensure maximum human replication for profits sake, they've ensured that the wet-blanket of profit growth, family planning, remains a forgotten luxury.

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Bigthink — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:51:17 +0100

Convert Old War Ships into floating mobile Desalinization Plants to take all the excess ocean water created from global warming to provide fresh water to 3rd world countries for drinking and agriculture. Top that. Of course I would keep a couple million for myself for my own selfish purposes.

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Bigthink — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:38:24 +0100

The first thing I would do is buy a house to get out of the renting cycle and put some money away for the future. Then I would help those who have helped me throughout my life. Set them up with investment accounts so they can live off the interest. I would not donate to charities as much of the money donated never reaches those who need it. I would put money into combating Global Warming, I would do things such as subsidising the purchase of compact fluorescent light bulbs for those who can not afford them because if something is not done about Global Warming we will all end up living like those we donate money to. If I had money left over I would love to travel to poverty stricken places and buy food for the citizens, that way I would know exactly where the money went.

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Bigthink — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:03:00 +0100

You would love to know. How beautiful the world look if it is really that simlple. I would bet you one t�gr�g that you couldn't even produce a video with all the smooze you have and show any benefit from teasing brains to falter because you were enabled and they were fable's. Yes, I'm poor in money. Thanks a million.

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Bigthink — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:50:56 +0100

I would spread it around in America. Families earning less than $25,000, medical reserch, alternate energy researh, urban renewel, businesses in trouble. We have to keep people employed. Every dime they spend will stimulate the economey.

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Bigthink — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:02:36 +0100

I would like to use such a generous gift to supplement individuals who are willing to learn and execute improved/evolving ways to solve the problems of the world.
While determining these potential situations the money would be given to like individuals for safeguarded, secure investing; to have these funds propagate creating a continual replenishment.

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Bigthink — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:06:25 +0100

oops I mean *there* (see below)

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Bigthink — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:05:05 +0100

We hear a lot about brain drain from developing countries and I think their is a brain puddle (smart people not putting their knowledge to use, hoarded intellectual property) in many developed countries. I would create an organization that acts as a brain pump by buying patents and subsidizing startup companies in poor regions. The organization would provide for on-the-job training to educate the people, find potential consumers and give subsidies for infrastructure. Hopefully, they can be fostered to the point of self-sufficiency creating value for them in the free market. This should give them the capital to address their local problems, stimulate the economy, attract foreign capital investments (which should reduce the chance of conflict), and help retain knowledge workers for even more entrepreneurship. Oh, and I'd make various headquartes for this organization in poor American cities.