• AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • Jolteon@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      Then maybe graphene OS would be able to get enough people to maintain non-pixel builds.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Starting a production line for something like UAV drones seems doable. I don’t understand how much 100kk is (and I assume most lemmings too), but I think like there are a lot of ways to make it more expensive. If the baseline is constructing an existing model from imported components, then customizing it, printing or casting conponents oneself, doing R&D - everything can change the price.

  • vane@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Just buy some commercial property, island, luxury house that is worth 100M, it can be done in less then a week. 3 weeks left to think and organize how to spend 1 billion in 1 day.

    • Mataresian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      No you’re getting somewhere. Buy 1B in property put it in a company. Then use that as a mortgage to get a higher loan to buy some more. This way you can in addition avoid paying taxes.

  • zbyte64@awful.systems
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    2 months ago

    Buy a supreme Court justice with the first 100M, then the rest of the court with the other Billion.

  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Can I do the lobbying thing to get a nice human rights or climate law passed or is 100M still too poor for that

  • Chakravanti@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Overpay for Monero.

    The purchase would be the inflation skyrocket making those in…business…with Monero experience short buff on their previous conduct and product supply quality.

    This incentivizes them into produce more products no one else can afford. It’ll buff their stock and increase their desperation to sell.

    I’ll be stacked with cash to buy it all with gorram near zero oppositional bids.

    If the market is short on Monero for that rate, I can buff the crypto with BTC and Bisq it to what actually fucking matters.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’ll just invest that into a nice, stable, diverse stock portfolio then, and use the dividends to both live on and start a charitable non-profit. Building shelters, donating to politicians who champion human rights, education, healthcare, founding free clinics, angel investing in co-op businesses, and funding food banks isn’t giving away the money after all. it’ll be slow going but pay broader dividends down the road.