Asklemmy

I mean, with luck like that, I'd buy a lotto ticket

First start the process of getting a new wheelchair, my current one is 13 years old and leaves a trail of nuts and bolts.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Go to a casino and walk up to a roulette table and put it all on black.

Build a high-speed train from Columbia, SC to Charleston, SC. In the grand scheme of things, it might seem like a waste of money. But man, for the few dozen years I’ve got left on this earth, it would be awesome to see & experience.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Start my own research company.

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

Sleep

Safe investments to make sure it lasts and then I want to start a charity to help people get access to mental health care, help feed the homeless, and do other stuff for my community.

Also pay off debt and finish college

Hide it.

Pay off all my and my immediate family's debt. Renovate my parents home or get them a new one, give my sister a nice home wherever she wants, buy myself a new, basic vehicle for my commute, and get a nice place for myself close to my work. I'd also start my own creative studio to work on the game I've been making. And, also try to put my excess money to good use by trying to help out people with housing issues and health problems. All while keeping the fortune a secret.

I don't wanna remain a millionaire.