Start the largest non-equity housing co-op that money can buy.
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I’m generally against the idea of planting as many trees as possible.
Trees are not very good carbon sinks because they decompose and burn. Also, there are also some ecological communities where adding trees makes the land a worse carbon sink.
Avoiding cutting down forests to build suburbs is something I can certainly get behind though.
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Give it to me.
I have an idee fixe that I could set up a non profit that bought homes and rented them at a price somewhere between the maintenance cost and the market price. It would make a profit and slowly expand providing more and more affordable housing. Ideally it would start with more than 1 million but doesn’t need to.
If you rent at cost or even a little over you’ll go broke. People won’t pay their rent and trash the places. Non-profits are finding out that they can’t even support what they’re trying to do with housing because the actual costs are more than what you think are “at cost”.
I think that’s why they said between the maintenance cost and market price.
I think spending all of it on feeding people who are starving. You could keep a lot of people alive on a million, even if it was just for long enough to give them a second chance on their own. And even if that second chance failed, then at least all of the goodness of those people would have more time to be in the world.
Give water and food to where it is needed.
Hire as many hitmen as I can to kill the wealthiest people. But we would have to keep doing it, and it wouldn’t dissuade anyone from hording money…so?
Put 3/4 on the hit and 1/4 betting on the stock market reaction only you know is coming. Profit. Repeat.
So you’d choose senseless violence. Good thing you’re not getting any money.
I doubt professional hitmen would go after the real fat porkys for just a million.
fund communist parties in the global south
Burn it.
Set up a trust to invest the money, from the compounding returns, use a sustainable portion of the dividends to fund a cause you believe will help change the world. Be very explicit to the trust managers as to the long term instructions of the trust.
With compound market returns the million dollars could be worth $40 million in 50 years and would be distributing af a sustainable 3% dividend, 1.2 million a year to a cause you believe in.
Guillotines with “Heroes Work Here” signs atop them.
Fund an open source project to make something useful that helps make life cheaper and easier for regular people
According to Rutger Bregman: just give it away to people who don’t have it.
Straight to Maoist guerillas in The Philippines.
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Reason: Breaks Community Rules60% of the time it works every time 😂
lmao
Dedicate the $1 million to funding zoning reform efforts in your city to allow for the construction of more housing and reduce the cost of housing for everyone.
