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If I had $1 Billion dollars

RevolutionX

Member
The wealth distribution throughout the world is very unfair,in which most the money in the world is held by only 5% of the population. Lets pretend it was redistributed some how so that everyone in the world had 1 Billion to make this a better world. What would you do with it? What do you as an individual feel passionate about? \

I think the overall kindness and good hearts of general human beings would use the money in a more appropriate manner than these govt's and private corporations who are out to benefit only themselves. Lets make peace and love not war and hate...


Who owns this world anyways? All of us! They have technology,money, and guns to supress us. But we have eachother. and I believe the pen is more powerful then the sword- so speak up. Lets prove that society as a whole can do a better job in maintaining humanity and wildlife- other than those who own most of the wealth and watch the world suffer.
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Ill go first-

Me personaly i would start a crusade in africa to save the elephants. I would buy about 1000 choppers and hummers and pay the african people who want to help save their elephants to patrol and prosecute these poachers. Now that is me; just one guy in the world with the means to do good. And im sure my efforts would help somewhat. Maybe others would join me, sharing the same passion and contributing that much more money to the cause. Or they could attack another problem in the world that "they" as a human feel passionate about fixing.

My point is that the concentrated wealth is solely in the possesion of very few. So its like a bottleneck in the gene pool so to say. Because its so few in control- they have a narrow mindset- opposed to humanity as a whole.

Dont forget to have ideas- its the last pure freedom most of us truly have these days.




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smurfin'herb

Registered Cannabis User
Veteran
Buy all the abandoned missle silos and turn them into underground breeding and genetics preservation facilities! :rasta: woohoo!
 

Yummybud

Active member
Veteran
I'd probably just buy everything I ever wanted and then see that material possessions and money area all meaningless and then I'd get depressed over that and shoot myself with a gun with a diamond bullet.

studies have shown that winning a billion dollars or whatever will only make you temporarily happier than you were before
 

PazVerdeRadical

all praises are due to the Most High
Veteran
cocktail frank said:
:jump: i'd buy a billion dollar car, so nobody could catch me

perhaps with one-billion dollars you could buy a bunch of different considerable ammounts of land around certain parts of the world in order to establish them as natural reserves to preserve them as well as establish small self-sufficient communities that may serve as models for future development.

although coctail frank's idea sounds way cool :joint: how many miles per gallon do you get on a one-billion dollar car anway?

paz
 

Pixelante

Member
If I came into $1 billion I would keep $100 million and give the rest away to charities and political causes that matter to me. There's nothing that I would want to do with $1 billion that I couldn't do with $100 million.

Either that or I would start a private and elite university where everyone went to school for free for as long as they wanted. $1 billion as a starting fund is enough to support a school of 5000 or so full-ride scholarship students on a consistent basis and supply them with the best facilities and classes. I would eventually hope that the graduates would continue to work for the university so that it could expand, and apply their immense talents as a think tank to try and change the country for the better.
 

Feyd

sunshine in a bag
Veteran
I would keep enough of it so that I could live comfortably with all the trappings and material possessions my simple life needs.
I would give a lot to my friends, my family members, and people I knew personally that were in need.
I would go on vacation for weeks, visiting all the places I've seen on TV or in movies that I thought I would never be able to go, and while I was touring the world I would have a house constructed somewhere remote but beautiful. Like the desert, or the mountains.
My house would accomodate a room so that I could grow the best marijuana possible, I would have a room where I could just chill and listen to music or my friends could come over and jam, or just do whatever.
I would buy a car, probably a really nice but useful SUV. Then I would just try and learn new things, such as painting, drums, keyboard, who knows. Just stuff to keep myself busy and not realize that now I have all this money my life without it was just as good because I'm happy with what I have, what I have is enough. Some people don't have enough, and they suffer.
So as long as I can pack another bowl, eat another dinner, and sleep in a warm bed, I am happy.

I would only want this money if it didn't have the unwanted baggage of celebrity status.
I would give it all away if I had people snapping my picture or people digging through my garbage, making websites about me and wondering what it would be like to be so rich.
As long as it was on the down low, and none of my friends told anyone, I would be fine.
 

Bob Labla

Member
100 million dollar house, 100 million on amenities (furniture,cars etc) 1 million outfitting a batman like cave/bookshelf thing for the stealthiest grow ever. the rest to sit in the bank and earn interest
 

Pops

Resident pissy old man
Veteran
I would use the first $20 of it to buy Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton a new brain. I'll have to think about what to do with the rest. After all, a billion just doesn't go as far as it used to.
 
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Tarkus

Mother Nature's Son
Veteran
I would buy me a decent sized mountain, hell...mountain range, and some surrounding land. Invite everyone I know and like, and their families to live on it with me if they wanted, become self sufficient, and never worry about a damn thing ever again. Stay awake as long as I can every day, and then sleep as much as I want.
Hey Tarkus, what time is it?? Shit, I don't even know (or care) what month it is.
 

trouble

Well-known member
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RevolutionX said:
The wealth distribution throughout the world is very unfair,in which most the money in the world is held by only 5% of the population. Lets pretend it was redistributed some how so that everyone in the world had 1 Billion to make this a better world.

If everyone in the World had 1 Billion Dollars it wouldnt really be like having 1 Billion Dollars would it? Lets say I was in the 5% that had a Billion +. I would purchase a Pro Football Team, Race Horses, and adopt a shit-load of those Little Dirty Kids with Fly's all over their heads on the FEED THE CHILDEREN COMMERCIALS . :woohoo:
 

genkisan

Cannabrex Formulator
Veteran
I would buy a few tens of thousands of acres Canadian bush, build off the grid long-term sustainable housing thereon for all my friends and family, and then use the rest of the money to invest in and establish businesses that the word REALLY needs, like a viable hemp paper industry, low-tech affordable small scale power generation gear (for which I have many ideas) and the like.

Profits from said much-needed businesses would be poured directly back into buying more and more land world wide to protect from Corpo-Nazi scum and building more and more businesses that have that have the survival of the human race as their bottom line, not next quarters profits. All profits from all busiesses involved would used to further protect land and the future viability of the planet.
 
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If I had a billion...

Buy a sports team
Donate to Charity
Invest
Donate to Charity
Retire
Donate to Charity
Die, leave everything to family/charity
 

TNTBudSticker

Well-known member
Veteran
AC\DC has a song

"It's no fun waiting around to be a millionaire"


Now on the other hand.....with the billion

It'll probably weigh heavier
 

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