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Easy when there are bad people you’re interested in.
Buy 100M worth of drones with ammo and transportation, only I’ll have to find somebody from former Artsakh Defense Army to ask where.
Or maybe just buy samples of anthrax, bubonic plague, some particular nasty kind of covid and other such nice things, lots of pests able to carry them and, of course, rodents, bribe lots of people on my way and bring all that stuff to Baku.
Starting right now, you have $100M in a checking account.
Honest question: do you predict you can have all those drones in your possession, and the account emptied, within 30 days?
No, I don’t. I don’t have a plan and making it will take probably more than a month
Just buy all the Star Citizen goodies
I am going to finance some movies and video games. I might even make it back.
Easy. Buy 100 homes in my city. Become a landlord. Barely ask rent so it’s technically not gifting. Use my infinite money to maintain the homes so people have affordable decent housing. Profit for all!
Short time later your homes are in ruins and your broke from continuously fixing your houses.
I sincerely doubt that the maintenance bill for 100 houses is going to exceed a billion dollars any time in for foreseeable future.
Found the idle rent seeker, or worse, a bootlicker for idle rent seekers.
There is a reason why capitalists and socialists both hate landlords, they are a relic of feudalism.
You sound like you need a warm cookie and a glass of milk
You sound like you’re an asshole.
So when someone calls me a boot licker and other names I should smile and be happy? Good luck with that
You could always stop and wonder why they’re calling you a bootlicker, but most bootlickers are bootlickers because they lack the ability for introspection.
If you don’t wanna be insulted, don’t simp for the oppressors. I’d insult you if you said “I love absolutist monarchy!”
You sound like you need a peasant’s revolution
Nah, I guess tips will cover the repairs
Tips will cover the furnace or the shingles when they wear out?
Damn those would be some nice tips.
Always be sure to leave a good tip to your landlord/landlady
What’s the difference between paying rent or leaving a tip (which is going to be used to cover expenses)?
I do, it’s called rent is 5x more expensive than it needs to be.
Genie never said they’d give me a 100M to spend in the first place. No way I’d be able to spend 100M that I don’t have.
First get the spending money then do it. In a non-refundable unable to be altered manner (ignoring the magicially manifesting money part)
Or worse if he does, how do you prove to all the anti-money-laundering watchdogs you got free money from a genie? Will you be able to gain control over your instantly conviscated money in 30 days?
Find someone rich who would believe you have this pact with a génie, and promise them a 100% ROI.
Thinking of it, that’s not the worst idea for a new
sectreligion…Dibs on playing the genie
This reminds me of a scam I fell for in Eve Online once
I wonder whether Eve has more or less scams per capita (player) than Roblox or Runescape
On an unrelated note, anyone want me to trim their armor? 50k for colored trim, 100k for gold trim. Totally legit!
this is exactly how i learned what a scam was 20 years ago
Give it all away anyway. Screw that genie, wealth hoarding jerk. At worst he kills you and you leave a saintly legacy.
seems better to just spend the 100M like he wants and then just give the remaining 900M away.
Ill show up to dealership row and just start buying out car dealerships until I hit 100m and have that done in an afternoon
Bad investment, you can’t resell them for nearly as much and you’ve contributed to the automobile industry that is lobbying hard against climate change policy
I’d start buying up mid-sized companies and reorganizing them as worker co-ops. Doing some long-term good while not violating the terms of the contract
If you’re just after the money, do as every billionaire looking to launder some money does and buy art.
Well if everyone has a price, I’m gonna get that girl!
Build and fund a Marxist think tank, think tank of the Proletariat
Warhammer!!
Genie: There are 5 rules…
I mean c’mon genie, that barely covers my Kharadron, Drukhari, and Votan dream collections.
I’d spend 100M in a month easily. Especially after I’ve bankrolled GrapheneOS, Ladybird and all my favourite FOSS projects. They also didn’t say anything about charity which IMO isn’t gifting. Once I feel like I’ve sufficiently contributed to society I’d buy a 50ft sailboat, pimp the shit out of it with solar and fuck off forever.
With the billion I’d establish a fund that pays out monthly to any projects I deem worthy and funds all food banks in my local area indefinitely.
Especially after I’ve bankrolled GrapheneOS, Ladybird and all my favourite FOSS projects.
According to the book The Starfish and the Spider, which is about decentralized organization versus centralized organization, the Spanish Empire was able to defeat the previously-undefeatable Apache resistance by giving gifts of horses to some of the Apache leaders. It provided them status, creating a hierarchy, turning the Apache society into the sort of thing that could be destroyed in conventional battle.
Not saying it’s a very tight analogy, but I would be wary of changes in team culture resulting from a project going from volunteer based to well-funded.
Obviously open source projects need resources, such as servers and github accounts and all that, but spirits change when resource flows change, and projects excel or flub on spirit.
Then maybe graphene OS would be able to get enough people to maintain non-pixel builds.
No gifting.
The problem is that it’s so much money that you can clear out the inventory of almost anything you would buy while only chewing a few percent off the bankroll. Provided you can close on them in time, buying up some high end houses, or just a whole lot of land, is probably your best bet. Being a cash deal on your end helps move the paperwork faster. They’re also durable goods that don’t need a warehouse to be stored, and don’t need any maintenance for a while.
The problem is that it’s so much money that you can clear out the inventory of almost anything you would buy while only chewing a few percent off the bankroll.
Then you have to pay to berth it somewhere, and for maintenance because your boat touches salt water. Land will just sit there until you can flip it, though you do have some property taxes and insurance. A handful of acres around Beverly Hills will do it.
I like boats. Plus I’m a billionaire now.
I’ll just pay someone 100 million to punch the genie
I’ll buy 3 yachts. Pre-paid.
YOU DIDN’T SAY AZURE, RACKSPACE, OR OVH!
