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Show HN: What would you do if you were given Half Billion Dollar?

https://hbdq.ddgr3.com/
3•jujumilk3•3h ago
I have a question that I ask all my acquaintances: what would you do if you were given Half Billion Dollar?

Some interesting answers I've heard include: 1. I would host Squid Game. 2. I would become a stone (somehow).

Common answers I've heard: 1. Travel the world with family 2. Go on a cruise with family

And other responses: 1. Create various foundations to help people 2. Establish a venture capital firm to invest in promising startups and contribute to the world

The point of me asking people this question is that most people are driven by the need to fill economic gaps, but I wanted to focus on what that person would do if all of that were resolved.

Anyway, I'm curious about other people's thoughts and wanted to collect and see them, so I created this. Thank you.

Comments

_wire_•2h ago
Put a million aside to comfortably pay for my basic needs for the rest of my life and look for people to support in my community pursuing a culture of status for creative work near the ground.
rawgabbit•2h ago
Fund an online high school like https://highschool.utexas.edu/
toomuchtodo•2h ago
Endowments for public goods so they don’t have to constantly beg for funds. Propublica, AP News, Sesame Street Workshop, Tampa Bay Times, City Museum, Climate Town are some examples.
winnie112•2h ago
So nice of you.
toomuchtodo•1h ago
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.” —- Greek proverb
dotcoma•1h ago
invest in startups that solve real problems -- unlike companies that raised 30 billion (with a b) to create an app to call a fucking taxi, or billions spent in companies that will deliver pizza or fried Chinese food, or groceries...
fhxb456•1h ago
driven by capital greed can further develop god complex personality, especially if we think our self is the only saviors in the industry. and this one billion tickets is true breakout for self reflection in how greed we were, especially for us who has god complex, maybe not us but I.

but it also can be true altruism as for altering the systems for making the basic needs to function and better able navigate the true deadlock.

because capital is natural slection of an ideas, ideology and beyond.

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