You are now a billionaire, what’s the first thing you would do?

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You are now a billionaire, what’s the first thing you would do?

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  1. uttercentrist Avatar

    I’d buy my own McDonalds restaurant, cause then I’d be the owner and could get free nuggets anytime I wanted.

  2. TheFsckAmIDoingHere Avatar

    Give 60% of it to organizations I’ve researched and believe in, then give half of what’s left to my family and have fun with the rest.

  3. imstraight__maybe Avatar

    Solve world hunger ig.

  4. dev_loves_books Avatar

    Buy every book I’ve ever wanted and build a small house dedicated to just housing my books in extravagant bookshelves. With little reading areas of course.

  5. phleghmy Avatar
  6. [deleted] Avatar

    Pay off any and all family debts

  7. calicocidd Avatar

    I work with a guy that’s really into government conspiracies and “prepping,” I’d hire a black helicopter and a couple SUVs to follow him around all day….

  8. EmickRado_087 Avatar

    I’d feed the homeless they won’t even be that much, barely a dent honestly then I’ll piss the rest of the money away

  9. welding_guy_fromLI Avatar

    Buy buildings and make them free housing for the homeless and help them rebuild their lives

  10. RicketyWickets Avatar

    Invest in green new deal and other projects that benefit all.

    All we can save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the climate crisis. (2020) Collection of essays edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson

    What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures (2024) by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

    Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (2018) by Eric Klinenberg

  11. Least_Consideration Avatar

    Be a giant dick to everyone at work until they fired me.

  12. PomskiMomski Avatar

    Buy my dream house and a brand new car ✨
    Then fund a program in my area to financially assist other nursing students. As well as donate to any family in my county struggling to pay rent or utilities.

  13. suffer_hero Avatar

    Get my dental health in order. Pay all my debts if I have any. Be batman. Just the simple things.

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  15. eggman-runitup Avatar

    making eggs legal

  16. BordomMadeMeDoThis Avatar

    Keep it a secret and pay off my debt.

  17. Dismal_Connection_88 Avatar

    Same as before. Live frugal. I may invest that money in lands in different states, get them registered (my country has states), buy gold (not affected by inflation), invest in funds (at this wealth number, even index funds are good).

  18. decorama Avatar

    Call a lawyer.

  19. FriendoTrillium Avatar

    get the fuck out of Portland and start a shop in a foreign country

  20. xD3CrypTionz Avatar

    Setup multiple income streams (business’) in which profits are distributed directly to any and all charities that do good things for humanity.

  21. BaconGivesMeALardon Avatar

    Best not said with other Billionaires in hearing distance.

  22. So_spoke_the_wizard Avatar

    Hire the smartest minds in economics, political science, environmental, and technology, etc to provide me with a fact based picture of the world we live in. Activism and altruism can’t be effectively practiced without proper knowledge.

  23. videogamesandwalks Avatar

    Get an accountant and whoever I’d need to do bring anyone who needs it, a netter standard of life. . If we could move the bar up, that the worst living conditions were compatible with a US (well maintained) Trailer Park. Lives would be saved and extremely upgraded. Hopefully out of public pressure, the other billionaires would help and do the same.

  24. DaEvilGenius85 Avatar

    Rub one out… Gotta think with a clear head.

  25. DatumInTheStone Avatar

    Bring about fundamental change to American charity and politics. We need a more empathetic and reasonable society.

  26. Trepide Avatar

    Buy a US President for $250M.

  27. kawtharabdmanaf Avatar

    To be honest I’d donate most of it. Give a lot to people in need. I would then open a few businesses to keep money coming. Buy a decent house. Keep my parents happy

  28. Andie_Ruth Avatar

    I would build a community hospital for my people to promote quality healthcare accessibility

  29. MartinFissle Avatar

    Id buy large amounts of debts for cheap and forgive the debts. No specific groups of people maybe aim for any debt most likely to be held by retail type workers (cars, student loans) to avoid paying off the debts of people already capable of paying it off themselves.

  30. Ambitious_Part4382 Avatar

    I will help peoples

  31. PhillipTopicall Avatar

    Lobby the government for improved conditions for the working poor.

  32. Ok-Cartographer-5544 Avatar

    Open up a bank in the UAE to receive the funds and renounce my primary citizenship to dodge the 50% capital gains tax bill.

  33. bootywarriorfleece69 Avatar

    I would buy an unlimited supply of Viagra and look for the best-looking hookers I could find.

  34. DeWin1970 Avatar

    Get an ocean going yacht and travel.

  35. Latter_Abroad3494 Avatar

    Retire my fiancé 🥹

  36. Drago_727 Avatar

    I’d probably either spend the money or wake up.

  37. Toledopumper Avatar

    I would buy my own island home somewhere warm and private.

  38. Reasonable_Boss_9465 Avatar

    Work on becoming a millionaire responsibly

  39. nickytheginger Avatar

    Ensure my loved ones are cared for, put a a 100,il in savings (just in case) and they start buying and forgiving debt.

  40. Legitimate-Use691 Avatar

    Frankly, I will start with myself. I will spend on myself until I am satisfied, and then everything else. I am a billionaire.

  41. Kwelikinz Avatar

    Give half to Bernie and AOC, so that they can advance a great midterm bloodbath, donate enough to keep NPR afloat until 2028, donate to the ACLU, gift two years of College or trade school and living expenses to everyone in my city coming out of CPS. Keep the libraries in my area afloat. Shock the living shit out of the people who helped me so much when I needed it most. Show my dearest friends and family big love, so that they never have to worry about anything. I’d invest so that I could keep the love flowing for as long as it could. For me, I would just travel everywhere I could, until I couldn’t travel any more. I’d live right where I am and wouldn’t tell a soul. ~he he he~

  42. SnackRaptor Avatar

    Give enough away for the betterment of society that I’m no longer a billionaire.

  43. ZealousidealBed3753 Avatar

    I’d get a BMW, a house, and give leftover money as debts to people.

  44. CertainlyUncertain4 Avatar

    Pay off all my close family’s debts.

  45. harris0n4 Avatar

    I’d build the hottest and realest sex android to have ever existed

  46. Curious_Peter Avatar

    anything I want to

  47. VirtuaKiller76 Avatar

    “Two chicks at the same time, man.”

  48. Linhphambuzz Avatar

    Donate to charities to help unfortunate, sick children

  49. Alternative_Owl_9519 Avatar

    I would hire John Wick

  50. JNorJT Avatar

    get off reddit

  51. Ginoblee Avatar

    Take care of my family, help my ex out, quit my job, travel a lot, then put in money to become a minority owner of an NBA team. Also, I’d start a large farm to grow my own food/livestock and create a separate large area to adopt a lot of dogs so they can have great lives.

  52. SourNotSorry Avatar

    Become president

  53. chikomana Avatar

    Get off of reddit coz y’all would want to eat me or kill me for something or other, then set my folks up with dream retirements. Mom wants a nice house in my childhood city, dad probably wont stop working willingly, but until he does, awesome vacations, top tier health care, paid off debts and a car he can comfortably drive

  54. ssowinski Avatar

    Find Pinky and tell him we need to take over the world.

  55. RedPulse Avatar

    Fuck over poor people of course!

    Just kidding, I would sponsor mental health facilities and give to secular organizations which help homeless such as SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition.

  56. Nkengaroo Avatar

    Put half in savings/investments. Pay off my dad’s and my brothers’ mortgages. Buy houses in my hometown, my adopted hometown, and Mexico City. Donate a CHUNK of it to the National Abortion Fund and the reproductive health clinics in my hometown.

  57. josephrehall Avatar

    Take a nap. I’m tired, boss.

  58. Danilicious4 Avatar

    Build a restaurant that serves free food to the people of my community

  59. dribbledunks Avatar

    Find the closest pizza shop with one of those 4 foot pizzas. I don’t want much.

  60. Both_WhyNotBoth Avatar

    Get drunk and fart in elevators

  61. Community_Turbulent Avatar

    Buy a house in Beverly Hills

  62. Livid_Parsnip6190 Avatar

    Buy a bunch of buildings and turn them into nice boarding houses for $1 a month or something.

  63. BusyFinding1075 Avatar

    Buy a house, couple of cars, project car to tach my son with, get my kids home, stay to myself, help a few people out along the way, pay off debt, help a couple friends with housing and medical bills, try to find a hobby, get back into shape, do some traveling so my kids can see historic sites first hand… Nothing to spectacular

  64. Wind-and-Sea-Rider Avatar

    Order a Kraken 60 to be made.

  65. quantumturbines Avatar

    buy my own self-sufficient island and only let my close family and friends on it to stay with me when they want.

  66. JBPunt420 Avatar

    Fake my own death and disappear with my wife to some place where it never snows.

  67. GreatFantasy009 Avatar

    Bigyan ko yon mga pulubi at bigyan ng mga bahay yon walang tinitirahan lalo na yon hindi nakapag aral
    Paaralin ko thats all👍😄😀❤️👍♥️♥️♥️

  68. signaleight Avatar

    Go watch rocket launches and inter view private yacht captains.

  69. Sad_Worldliness_845 Avatar

    2 chicks at the same time, man.

  70. Rivas-al-Yehuda Avatar

    Have my car dropped off for a full restoration. Travel the whole world.

    If we’re talking multi-billionaire, then I would try to buy my way into being in control of a very low GDP country and try to fix it. Somewhere like Mauritania. It would be like a real-life SimCity.

  71. Timely-Discipline427 Avatar

    I’d make sure kids in need had food waiting for them at school. As many schools as I could possibly afford without going broke.

  72. jargonburn Avatar

    Celebrate with some premium Mac ‘n’ Cheese.

  73. tianavitoli Avatar

    make christmas cards with my butthole on it

  74. h1r0ll3r Avatar

    Nice big plot of land out in the middle of nowhere

    Build nice big mansion with 10 car garage

    Fence off the entire property

    Hang up dozens of signs that say “Trespassers will be thoroughly molested and then sold to Cletus”

  75. matchaxpilates Avatar

    Somehow find a way to help my mom stop suffering from Graft vs Host disease. She has gotten it like 6 or 7 times since getting a bone marrow transplant after getting leukemia. I hate cancer. It ruins everything.

  76. DinRyu Avatar

    Hire a lawyer.

  77. Canada_Ottawa Avatar

    Start living to do, instead of doing to live.

  78. jaysornotandhawks Avatar

    Shut the hell up about it.

    When everyone finds out you have money, everyone is suddenly your best friend.

  79. Lavender-61292 Avatar

    Buy properties, stocks, go on a trip to countries i’ve never been to before, set up an orphanage and a business so that people who are in need can get a job even without any experience or training.

  80. Imaginary-Soil2069 Avatar

    Buy a house and start my own company

  81. Actual-Ranger-5133 Avatar

    Get a Financial advisor STAT- and split it with my man of course. He’s done so much for me, he deserves it.

  82. sowdirect Avatar

    Id buy this land and turn it into a botanical park with all the bells and whistles. Make it into a place where people go for dates and take pictures and be a part of folks memories. Id also install those bird cams so people who can’t get out much can watch bird live streams. I just want people to have a place that’s beautiful and where folks can work at that makes them happy.

  83. Klok-a-teer Avatar

    Get a lawyer and sue 2 people because I want my vengeance. I do mot even care if I win, I want them to suffer and worry and stress out.

  84. ExogamousUnfolding Avatar

    Have one fucking good night restful sleep cause now I have no worries

  85. dma1965 Avatar

    Two chicks at the same time

  86. Tammy993 Avatar

    Pay off all my family members’ debts and mortgages then donate to the food bank, the humane society.

  87. DiscGolfDickhead Avatar

    I’d go frisbee golfing and drink a six pack to celebrate

  88. fatdjsin Avatar

    finish to pay my house 😐 help

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  90. dramabatch Avatar

    Give most of it away, like Melinda Gates. Nobody needs a billion fucking dollars.

  91. Remote-Art1445 Avatar

    Boost my damn credit score!! lol shhyyttt

  92. No-Department7714 Avatar

    15 day dall sheep hunt in the brooks range. Cost 50,000

  93. File7777777 Avatar

    Purchase WinRar license

  94. TooKoolFoU Avatar

    Pay off debt, buy a house, invest some, save some

  95. JessicaLynne77 Avatar

    Not say a thing to anyone. Pay all the taxes due. Pay off my mortgage. Finish renovations on my condo. Buy my fiance’s house, pay someone else to do all of the repairs needed. Let him and his roommate live there rent free and all bills paid for the rest of their lives so they are fully retired. Look for opportunities to help others anonymously and not expect anything in return.

  96. Dr_Retro_Synthwave Avatar

    2 chicks at the same time!

  97. THE_LEGO_FURRY Avatar

    Commissioning a high quality fursuit

  98. SnakeJG Avatar

    Get that trophy that says I won capitalism.

  99. MrPresident7777 Avatar

    I would get as much physical cash as possible, place it into a big fire and light it on fire. People would be encouraged to grab as much as possible before it all turns to ashes.

  100. StunningEmissions Avatar

    buy a politician or two just for kicks

  101. MeasurementOk5802 Avatar

    I’d donate several ambulances, and donate the money to build much needed social infrastructure… schools, small hospitals, fire stations etc

  102. j1ggy Avatar

    I’d hire a lawyer and a financial advisor immediately. And I would quickly buy a condo in a secure area and would be a recluse there while I got everything else in order. Over the long term, I would probably donate much of my wealth to good causes.

  103. snIphntn Avatar

    I’d honestly take about 50 Million and probably go to Vegas for a month. Fuck, gamble and golf. Then come back and help my community.

  104. FreeSalad7688 Avatar

    Investing for future generations

  105. banjogitup Avatar

    Buy a damn house and buy everyone in my circle a house that needs one. Then start some kind of tiny house village for people needing to get off the street.

    Housing. I’d pour money into housing.

  106. perma_banned2025 Avatar

    Hiring hitmen to take out all the other billionaires who disagree, while lobbying governments to increase taxes on the ultra-rich.
    Probably buy some cool shit and take a few holidays with my family and friends along the way too

  107. Specific-Respond8319 Avatar

    Buy an island, build a house and set up defense turrets around the perimeter so I never have to interact with humans again.

  108. DardS8Br Avatar

    Donate $267mil to the Cheikh Anta Diop University (Biggest public university in Senegal)

  109. ringo5150 Avatar

    Buy a 911 Porsche.

    I have always wanted one.

  110. Country_Gravy420 Avatar

    Go to a top law firm and a top top planning for very high net worth customers.

    Then I would go house hunting in Kona

  111. No-Zucchini2787 Avatar

    Retire and enjoy life with the money.

  112. Comfortable-Title720 Avatar

    Buy a nice farmhouse outside a small city. Loads of land with farmhands (that will be paid handsomely. I recognise their value, coming from a farming background). Focus on dairy, eggs, fruit and vegetables. Have some horses (just nice animals to have around), sheep (for wool) and dogs. Ensure local charities have met their income quotas, with my accountant making sure all is above board. Would have an out house for homeless people to work on the farm and get on their feet.

    In the city I would build a variety of residential accommodation, not for profit. Just cover the fees and small amount of rent. Build my own damn University. Fees are means tested, you can’t pay, you don’t have to. Just pay it back in other ways. Build a community trust.

  113. ArtisticRiskNew1212 Avatar

    Laser hair removal all over my body

  114. cash8888 Avatar

    Become a form of Batman helping others.

  115. theglowingembers Avatar

    Fuck around and buy up several businesses but take credit for starting them, have a fuck ton of kids in vitro, be a general fucking asshole with no self awareness. Maybe buy an election and create an agency to dismantle any regulations that might oppose my business interests but frame it as saving tax payers dollars even though I don’t pay taxes.

    Maybe later I’ll tank my company because I’m universally loathed

  116. Rosanna44 Avatar

    Change my phone number.

  117. DeLongestTom182 Avatar

    Donate to multiple charities, buy a house and invest whatever is left

  118. bugabooandtwo Avatar

    Buy a few thousand acres in the woods, and have a nice home on it and pretty much be a hermit. Have a nice big garden and greenhouse, big library, big kitchen, indoor pool, and lots of good walking trails in the woods.

    In terms of community….I think it would be neat to put $250 mil or so into building a small manufacturing building that makes high quality and simple items. Stiff that is well made, repairable, and lasts a long time. A manufacturing plant that is modular in that it can reconfigure fairly easily to make different products. The building wouldn’t be overly big…perhaps 100k square feet at most. And be structured to provide a handful of jobs that pay a good living wage for the area, and any profits go back into the business for expansion, maintenance and worker benefits. it won’t be enough to single-handedly change the economy of a small town or anything like that, but would be a really solid big step for a community that needs a solid base for jobs.

  119. NobodyYouKnow2515 Avatar

    How many billions? Probably just give half a million dollars to a bunch of randomly selected homeless people and keep a few mill for myself

  120. guyonlinesays Avatar

    Create a show like extreme makeover, but reward people who help others

  121. IndianKingCobra Avatar

    3 comma club painting.

  122. Kingsole111 Avatar

    First build a portfolio of stock to pay me a salary of interest. Then I’d look for startup products that should be available, and try to get them to market.

    I’m a billionaire I should be able to force my will into people.

  123. Round_Ad_2972 Avatar

    Buy a president.

  124. Riverboatcaptain123 Avatar

    Buy my mother that red corvette she’s been wanting.

  125. cbm2181 Avatar

    Start a non-profit charity

  126. Ok-Afternoon-3724 Avatar

    Ditto with a car. And do my best to make myself unfindable to anyone in the Hire a good lawyer. Have my name legally changed, without any pubic announcement about that. Move without notifying anyone other than my son and daughter, in their 40s, where I am going. Buy an ordinary house that doesn’t stand out. Just an ordinary place. Same with a different car than I now drive. Consider plastic surgery. Close down all my social media accounts, emails, etc.

    In short, do my best to disappear from public view, and not finable by using old info about me. Thinking, for good measure I’d add a fence completely around the new house and take my 4 German shepherds with me. They are a heck of a lot better than burglar alarms.

    Then think about who I am going to give some money to. I’m a retired engineer. I don’t actually need any more money. All I want is to be left alone so I can go fishing, and pursue other hobbies. All of which I can already afford.

  127. Acrobatic_Pie_8952 Avatar

    buy a few houses n turn em into airbnb or rent them n make more moneyyyy

  128. AwakenMindz Avatar

    Take my family and dissappear

  129. Slow_Stable3172 Avatar

    I’m not very smart. I’d provide for my immediate family some land, modest homes, livestock and fertile land, then request a talk with the Carthusians on what to do with the rest.

  130. Important-Dig-2312 Avatar

    I’d buy myself a nice, house. Not a mansion but 4-5 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. I’d pay off all debts. I’d put it in a bank and live off the intrest. I’d maybe quit my job, maybe go to school just to try something different. Not sure what or maybe I just keep working where I am free of the stress of losing my job.m (I just like to work). I’d pay off my car…buy that new volkswagin van because it looks sick and I could use a van. I’d put my mom in a care facility. She’s not really capable of taking care of herself due to mental health issues, we all try to pitch in me and my siblings but it’s hard. This way others can provide the care for her we can’t. I’d parade my families debt both mine and my wife’s.

    I’d buy a second home in my wife’s home city in mexico so we can go whenever she wants, the house right beside her parents house.

  131. Xc0liber Avatar

    I don’t like attention so I would figure out where I can live in peace. Whether it be an island somewhere or a nice land far enough from the main city but close enough to travel back and forth.

  132. Nihilistic_River4 Avatar

    Never work ever again

  133. svenbreakfast Avatar

    Start building apartments in cities and cap the rent at a third of tenants income. SF, NYC, LA are pricing out the people who make those places important. I’d absolutely focus on keeping American cities alive and interesting. Hook up the small folk and everybody benefits.

  134. bluesky34 Avatar

    I’d start a practical joke ‘Service shop’.

    People would bring in their laptop or whatever for repair and I’d say ‘oh I’ve seen this issue before it just needs a small adjustment’ and then proceed to whack it with a hammer and go on to explain it doesn’t always work.

    If also buy business that I think are doing things wrong, have staff I don’t like, need to adjust dumb policies and then proceed to “fix” them.

  135. ryuranzou Avatar

    Like 1 billion or more? If I had enough to buy reddit I would completely wreck moderation.

  136. masterP168 Avatar

    get some new pajamas

  137. Successful-Code-9065 Avatar

    Run the country obviously

  138. total-study-spazz Avatar

    Live humbly. Make sure i have a safety net for life. Next, pull some strings to start helping people for minimum reciprocal obligations. Like if i set up housing= dont trash my shit and other sprinkles and you won’t worry about profiteering.

    Problem is iv been around people who dont want to acknowledge what it really takes to operate these types of services.

    My personal ambition is to create stories but i dont have artistic consistency of logic.

  139. Skydome12 Avatar

    try and buy out the african continent and form one large country

  140. Shage111YO Avatar

    Run for office and hire a ton of lawyers to help me stick it to all these fine folks. God bless y’all.

  141. docere85 Avatar

    Go to med school and donate 1/2 to a children’s hospital

  142. PincheTony Avatar

    I would donate the majority of the proceeds to individuals in need, directly to the source.

  143. Informal_Border8581 Avatar

    Pee myself in shock and after I take care of that, I start booking travel. To take place while my dream cottage is being built here on my property.

  144. senioreditorSD Avatar

    Probably pay off all my friend’s debt, buy houses for kids and just enjoy life.

  145. Proddx Avatar

    I go to BuyASenator.com and see which ones are on sale.

  146. BoilzBlisterzBurnz Avatar

    Pay for all kids to have lunches and breakfast at school.

  147. sniksniksnek Avatar

    Use every last cent to ensure that I was the last billionaire ever, and that Billionaires could never exist again.

  148. stirling_s Avatar

    Brew a latte and bake some scones, sit in a sofa, and read a book from sunrise to sunset, with a break to walk the dogs for a couple hours around noon. Then make some handmade pasta for dinner…

    …On a Wednesday.

    I’d just relax and enjoy finally feeling safe.

    Then I’d write some fat cheques to some charities. I don’t think I could handle being a billionaire. Knowing people are suffering and I can stop it with a pen and a wave of the hand would make me a millionaire very quickly.

  149. Bigtits38 Avatar

    Buy a better President.