Kobe, a kid working a summer construction job in Belgium whose crew found a buried stash of gold worth €9M or 10.5M USD in today’s money, is the inspiration for this question. I’m assuming in that event, half goes to the property owner and it’s 4 construction workers and a foreman splitting the other half. The rightful owner has 5 years to claim according to local law. What would you do while you wait that out?
$10 million? what’s a kid gonna do with $5 million? I mean it’s only $1 million! there’s only so much he could do with $50k. maybe he could save the $10k for college funds or something. or he could spend all $1k on a nice TV.
this is always how these things end up when you find $500.
Call JG Wentworth
God damn. That was a good one. Well done
I’d learn what I can about investment strategies, and to determine between good and bad ones.
I’d continue to live my life by enjoying each day to the fullest, like I do now.
Love my job, happy with my situation, would just look forward to maybe retiring in five years.
Might make a wish list of what I’d do w the money
I would give up looking for a job, live frugal for a bit until then
I would earmark that money for use for my son’s future. So, no change, just the hope that if the money did become mine, that I’d be able to pass it on to him.
That’s very thoughtful!
I would start learning how to set it up in a way that I can live from passive income.
Or just slowly spend it, at my current standard of living it would last me many decades without having to work a single day, I would probably keep working but less hours.
Try not to get upset that it will drastically depreciate in value in those 5 years instead of me getting it now
FWIW the scenario I’m basing it off of is in the gold value, so nothing certain but it could possibly move with inflation.
Think… Reduce… and get it the fuck out of the USD cause that shit gonna crash… but crypto NO… Definatly plan to relocate outside of the imperial core. Money no money that is still the plan. This country (USA) makes me sick in the head. It was never the work but the culture I despise.
In my particular situation, I’d do nothing differently. Especially since it’s not guaranteed. Even if it were guaranteed, I’d just be relieved that soon what few financial concerns I have would be gone. That’s all that would change, I’d be a bit more relaxed.
I already have a similar enough situation. I’ve worked for several startup companies where part of my compensation is stock options that promise to make lots of money if. It’s not guaranteed so I’ll just continue normally until the time is up and I find out.
I mean, usually it is worthless, sometimes you feel cheated, but once I got enough to buy a new car
Just a million? Pay off remaining debts and put the rest toward buying land to retire on.
