Pretend the $20 million is guaranteed, and if anything will increase slightly over time.

What problems could be significantly improved for $20 million?

(I am dreaming of winning the $1.55 billion Powerball drawling. Then taking the lumpsum, posting taxes, investing, and spending 4% each and every year. I understand that the actual may be more, or less than the started amount.)

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    Start a charity foundation, but pay poor people in your community to lead it, instead of local millionaires.

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    I would get a really nice house with a big fancy kitchen and then continue being a hermit, except I’d do a lot more drugs

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    If I came into an unspendable amount of cash, I would make it my full time job to research things to donate to. Charities, or any charitable organizations, medical research, housing the homeless, feeding/infrastructure/sanitation for poor countries, open source projects, etc. But I don’t want to donate to just anyone. I don’t want to donate to those shitty fake charities that use their donations to line the pockets of their top people. That’s why I would spend a considerabe amount of time researching these groups.

    The way I see it, after I buy all the things I want, a house, a fancy car, etc. I couldn’t possibly spend more than $1M a year on my family. That gives me $19M a year to donate. I don’t really care to keep a cent more.

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      You are probably spot-on. While I am able to do some things, a charity that is already doing things will likely be better at it.

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    • UBI for people who are currently unhoused. This is proven to increase the economic prosperity of the entire region, leads to better outcomes than shelters, and is cheaper than current homelessness support systems.
    • Buy medical debt. You can clear someone’s $150,000 debt for like $200.
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    $20 million is a lot, but not an infinite amount. As the cash flow is close to guaranteed, one could get into long term projects and hire staff.

    Paying total compensation of $100K, one could hope ~200 people. No money left for offices though.

    I would consider increasing the local standard of living by buying a few minimum wage type businesses and over paying a little, ~5%. I would hope that this causes an employee shortage and increases wages. Continue raising wages at a rate the other businesses can keep up with. My reasoning is that I can only hire so many people, but increasing the prevalent wages will benefit far more people.

    I also think I could open a at-cost medical clinic. I don’t know what that would cost, but I bet someone will tell me really quickly once I have the money.

    I don’t think I would have the money to:

    • Set up a new bus system.
    • Setup district heating for a town

    I feel like I am playing “small ball” and not grasping the opportunities.

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    I’d donate a quarter for 4 years to my city to create a biking network, with some smaller portion donated after the 4 years for maintenance.

    I’d almost certainly help the local schools get up to date teaching materials and try to supplement their income by literally just gifting them money. There’s only around 1000 teachers in my city, so it wouldn’t be too hard to do that.

    Obviously myself a senator and representative.

    Then idk. Get a personal chef and personal trainer?

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      Giving to the teachers is great. I had looked up my school system’s budget and got discouraged, but a few 10’s of thousands each as gifts to the teachers and staff is more affordable.

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    How I always imagined it was I would live a nice middle class life with no worries for bills and shit. Then with the rest of the 19.7 million or so I would run a non-profit charity for people in locations that are unable to receive potentially life saving medications or treatments. Think abortions in the US as a major one, I’d want to help women get to a state they can safely get an abortion and then help them protect that info. Abortion bans are a classist issue, rich won’t be affected and they’re the ones who generally vote for this shit. But yeah that’s my dream, eventually I’d hope to get enough funding or money to expand that to a world wide endeavor with my own hospitals setup in regions where I can offer help the best and guarantee info protection.

    Oh and I’d take a lesson from the fediverse and make my funding and how it’s used be free for viewing and pretty much presented first so people can trust my charity.

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    Id like to buy some properties and rent them out super cheap to those in need. Cheap not free so that its a bit more sustainable in the long term and the money would go back into the properties. Id also like to do a thing where once a year the tenants get to skip a month of rent or so

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    Quit work and take lighter loads in school.

    Buy a nice house in Maine right on the water.

    Buy a supercar, and all the motorcycles I could ever want.

    Go on crazy adventures like an Appalachian trail thru-hike.

    All this would be less than 10% of my yearly income. The other 90% would go to charity, helping the homeless and bolstering free and open source software.

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    After taking care of myself, friends and family, and what not I would start acquiring land that I would donate to my community for affordable housing and other community projects with the condition that I get to name everything built on it. All streets, schools, libraries, etc will be named by me.

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    I was gonna say, take my boyfriend to fine dining restaurants and fun shows every week, but even assuming we took a $400 each way flight and stayed at a $500 hotel and paid $200 a plate and $75 a show, that still comes out to just $150,000 a year.

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      Those are def rookie numbers for the flights, hotels, dinners, and shows. X20 those and you’re in millionaire spending territory.

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    Pay off my debt, buy a modest home, go back to school, never work a shit job for minimum wage ever again.

    But I don’t need anywhere near 20,000,000 dollars a year to do that.

    After some large donations to communist organizations, I’d put the remaining few million per year into buying commercial slots on every major TV network in the US. Then I’d create Jury Nullification PSAs and blast them over the airways continuously until the message sinks in universally that juries are under no obligation at all to respect the laws currently grinding marginalized people into dust.

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    All mine and my family debts paid. Immediate and extended. Friends too. Then a life of leisure followed by paying the debts of the strangers I meet along the way.

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      That first parts is the best way to get harassed to hell and back. You don’t really want to give money to everyone, they’ll come back to beg some more, and get angry/violent/dangerous when you won’t anymore.

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        There’s the magic of not giving a shit after. But good point, it’s entirely possible to do this to some extent as an anonymous benefactor. And at $20mil annually guaranteed income I could always hire someone to do it for me.

        Also, I’d be buying remote wilderness and building a self sustaining off grid homestead and not telling most people how to find me. I don’t like visitors.

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    I’ve daydreamed about that Powerball jackpot as well. I’d spend as much time traveling the world. There’s so much out there to see, and I’ve only ever really spent time in a small part of my own country. And I’m not talking about a few days here and there in new places. I’m talking about spending weeks at a time experiencing other cultures.