Take biggest loan(s) and sell everything I own. Buy big storage space with wall full of leaf blowers and blow the money for the rest of my life.
paying lobbyists to right for right to repair and privacy laws in the US, and bringing data brokers and patent trolls into never ending litigation.
Maybe pay 500 musicians (generally my choice of music) x $20/hr x 3000 hours (about 1.5 person-years) (= $30 million) to write and record anything they want, but it has to be original and released into the public domain.
Exceptions could be made for derivatives of music already in the public domain.
Occasionally I might check on them for if they are composing, or composing and recording; and originality.
I might pay for novelty songs such as hard rock and heavy metal on horns; Suicide’s Ghost Rider but replace synths with tuba and harmonica; nonagenarian socialist to do Kid Rock’s Bawitdaba; Trump and Epstein look-a-likes do Nugent’s Little Miss Dangerous; etc.
Turn my country the fuck around so that public servants represent people and decisions are made to improve the lives of people.
First thing?
Probably buy my wife something nice.
Next, I would love to upgrade and spoil the homeless shelter behind my work. I always fantasize about being able to afford food, socks and blankets to distribute.
First selfish thing? Build a new computer.
1010 mountain bikes, 1000 to give away; a canoe; a little propeller-driven Cessna airplane; and a good non-Telsa non-Chinese electric car without the electronic-digital-internet-AI-bullshit frills might bring more and better satisfaction.
Sorry about your parents…
Destroy capitalism by out competing everyone.
Buy politicians.
Build out swathes of affordable housing/mixed use properties in large enough numbers to drive down the prices city wide.
Look into my pants to see if my d shrunk even more.
Use my newly found influence in politics to make sure my kind cannot exist ever again.
I’d quit my job, buy a small house for my partner and I and give enough to my family that they wouldn’t have to worry about money again.
With the rest, I’d set up a trust that donates 1% per year in microgrants to free software maintainers who apply to it. Similar to NLnet, but with no strings attached beyond continuing to maintain the project.
Then, with all my free time, I’d also work on free software.
Become Batman and use my wealth to hunt my new peers.
Buy land, start a building company and build apartments. Then I would turn each building into a cooperative so that only those who live in it are in control.
And I would sponsor Deutschlandtickets for low income people.
From what’s left I’d buy a big house and invite my queer and trans friends from mainly the US and UK to live with me.
Probably yell WOOHOO.
Next is quit my job.
A new off-grid house. We have a lot of power outages here every winter.
An older used car (I want nothing to do with a new car which are basically rolling spyware).
Start helping the worse off in my area such as the homeless and those living below the poverty line.
You are a billionaire you can custom design a new car with no spyware using reliable parts from other large brands
I’d lobby politicians into bombing Israel, I think they need a turn.
Iran’s doing that already.
Cutting off Israel will hurt the genociders even more.
If you’re American, maybe run for President in 2028 on a “No to Israel” platform; put $100 million into it. Don’t scare fellow Americans with extremist stuff, but feel free to insult your rivals. Maybe insult MAGAts as dumb fucks who’d take a bullet for Trump and get nothing.
