Fuck off

I'd buy as many billboards as possible and use them to troll whomever I feel like.

There is a comment on "that other site" that goes in detail about what to do. It starts with "You're fucked" and shows that you really have to be careful who to trust and what to do to not be bankrupt in a few years. I'm on mobile and short on time, but it's worth reposting here.

One thing I would do is keep working. Not because I love the job. I'd want to stay and keep working until someone pissed me off. Then, I'd rage quit!

I've always wanted to rage quit a job, but I've got too many responsibilities. It would be nice to be able to tell my boss to piss off.

Skipping past the obvious of paying off debts and buying a decent house, I'd do this:

Found a company to sell tech products (Pinephone, but cooler). Only the best benefits, work environment, basically everything I hate about any job I've worked, fixed. I'd hire good people, and make damn sure they're treated well. After everything is going well and with some kind of charter so they can't decide to be evil, I'd turn the company over to my employees. I'd step down and become a janitor or something and work ~20 hours a week until I retire.

Whatever money's left over, if there is any, is given away.

I want to work. I like working. I just want to work somewhere good, ya know?

I'd just buy my employer but they made ~450m Euro after taxes so they might want more than a billion. Also fuck audits.

Give my uncles, aunts and cousins a cool mil each, give my mom and my sister 10 mil each, buy some real estate on the coasts, and most likely fund some Democrats in Florida and Texas, do some traveling

Make a way bigger bucket list and actually start competing it.

Make sure my mom's in home health care is paid for for the rest of her life, so that she can continue to live in her house as she wishes while she is still with us, retire from my paid career early, do volunteer work instead, and travel often.

Pay off my house, pay off close friends and family houses, buy a bunch of land, buy cool cars, travel.

Not tell anyone if possible. Big winnings are the way to ruin in most cases.

Quit my job. Buy a new mattress and sleep stress free. After I get some actual rest, go from there. All the while, keeping it a secret.

Piss off the mortgage first, then sit for a bit and think about the rest.

I would be incredibly surprised, as I do not play the lottery. I'd probably start by getting a lawyer to handle it.

Run off and never be seen again. Maybe live in a bunker idk

Let's be a bit more realistic, I won 1 000 000 €. I would donate most of the stuff:

• Transfer 500k € to the National Bank of Ukraine;
• Transfer 70k € to nonprofits in my city;
• 30k € goes to spread the message of FOSS and Linux to Lithuania. That includes:
  • Establishing and maintaining a nation-wide open-source social network, primarily targeted for IT
  • Funding to FOSS projects in Lithuania (I don't know any ATM, though)
• 100k € goes to global IT non-profits, such as:
  • Wikipedia;
  • Lemmy and the Fediverse;
  • The Linux Foundation;
  • et cetera.

I am left with around 300k € that I'd use for myself.

Non-capital (leisure and hobby) (40k €):

• I'd like to have some free time/make my close friends happy, so ~10k € for that.
• Also, I'd like to travel to Japan, meet ZUN, have some alcohol-free beer with him. 10k € for that.
• 10k € for travelling (leisure) across Europe (incl. attending FOSDEM).
• Knowing myself, I'd really have some mad and stupid ideas appearing in my head, 10k € for that.

Capital/investing (260k €):

• I'd definitely have to buy an accomodation in Kaunas or Vilnius (I hope it's not Vilnius) if I'd like to continue my career in IT, so 100k € for that.
• Education (in a period of 3 years) (10k €):
  • LFCS/LFCE courses
  • Advanced mathematics and algorithms courses
  • Professional soft skills training
• 10k € is reserved for a black day, unused.
• 15k € of non-profit network infrastructure (hosting FOSS projects) (incl. maintenance for 4 years)
• 15k to have an individual for-profit business.
• Distributed investing (90k €, incl. investor costs)
• 20k is another buffer money for household expenses.

Go find that old post from AskReddit and follow it to a tee.

Outside of that, I'd probably buy a house closer to downtown, buy a new truck, and start to figure out how I can increase the quality of education in rural South Carolina.

I'd finally donate to Wikipedia. And NPR. So much so that both of them won't have to ever ask me for money ever again.

Keep it a secret until my kids finished school and became adults. Then travel for endless summer, or maybe autumn. have some investments as backup in case things go balls up

Sleep

I already live where I want to live. I would probably buy up all the open land in my county. Get my friends to move out and live on one of my properties. Fix up this 120 year old farm house. Install a pond and more water features to hold onto rain water. Probably run some electric fencing get solar power go off grid. Pretend to be a cattle rancher. Try to turn this homestead into my very own paradise. But i’ll probably employ a-lot of people create some jobs do more charity work.

Realistically, and assuming I claimed it and handled the financial and legal aspects of having that much money, I’d do this;

Pay off my debts, as well as those of my parents and sister, then help friends pay off everything. Then buy a nice house and nice stuff, leave my job, then travel.

Then I’d see what sorts of things I can use my money to improve, or who I can help.

While money is nice for security, I don’t need or want anywhere remotely close to 1$billion at one time. That amount of money is dangerous.

Pay debts and medical treatment for self/family/friends, pursue hobbies, volunteer, donate, travel... Find a place to live and settle down.

Pay off mine friends and my student loans, pay for moving costs to a European country for me and my friends, pay for US citizenship denouncing for me and my friends, set aside an amount of money for myself and my friends for savings to live comfortably, pay for first month's rent for me and my friends, pay for food for a month for me and my friends, and then if there happens to be anything left, donate it to charities.

Basically follow what these guys say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTurSi0LhJs

I've got a couple of people in my life I would set up, take care of my family's long term debts, set aside enough to retire tomorrow, and find a charity I really liked to donate the rest... the fuck I need that much money for?

no importa lo que hagas ni pienses, vas a morir igualmente

no matter what you do or think, you will die anyway

Buy a private island, get drunk and give a large portion away to random people

Buy a bottle of McCallans 12yr and a 8ball and see where I wake up next week.

I'd immediately try to give away most of it to a good cause I carefully researched or pull up my own organization that tries to tackle problems that could be improved with that kind of money.
You can't be a billionaire and a good person as you decide to not share an outrageous amount of wealth you couldn't spend in multiple lifetimes without diving into more and more absurd forms of consumerism.