• 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).
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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.

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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.

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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!

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    Really? Keep it so quiet.

    Would do the things to the house that we say we’d do if we had all the money. But not more. Get the car my husband wants, but with a loan so it’s not so obvious. I don’t need one. Start putting the max into the retirement accounts and pull an extra couple thousand to pay for stuff each month.

    I feel like this would basically need to be laundered like crime money, if we wanted to do more with it, even good things. Would think on it, but without a way to do that I would just use it.

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    If I had infinite money, I would create Medicare for All as a private company.

    It’d be like shooting all the healthcare CEOs at once.

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    Outbid the car/weapons lobby and errect an eco-social government >:) Watch out, we’ll support your purchase of an electric car and reinstate the Vegane Wurst!!!

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        You could create hyper inflation destroying modern currencies causing them to have to pay your assassins in gold, which would be a major pain in the ass if you didn’t already physically own gold.

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          I feel like they’d kill me long before that. Unless they figure out that I have an infinite money glitch, then I’d just get kidnapped and tortured till I spill how I do it.

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            I think it matters how paranoid you become and how much effort you put into risk aversion. If you buy a fortress and almost never leave, you are probably pretty safe. If you just go about living the same way you were, you will probably be offd on the street.

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              I mean, if a person with a normal budget purchases a fortress the IRS (Or their country’s equivalent) is gonna notice. Pretty much any government in existence isn’t gonna want someone with the power to single handedly ruin any economy to exist.

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                Not if they are smart and hire an accountant.

                The prompt just says “money” so you could use any and all currencies. You almost certainly would touch your own countries currency last, so you have something easy to trade with.

                Also how good is the IRS at taxing the rich already?

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                  Depends on if it’s generational wealth, or a normal person getting rich. But yeah, the best accounting firm money can buy would probably take care of that problem pretty quickly.