Imagine having a billion dollars and wasting your time doing anything other than:
1. Reading novels in the bath
2. Making art
3. Traveling
4. Cooking and eating
5. Giving heaps of cash to awesome people and institutions who need it
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@aram This is also one of the myriad of reasons I'm not (and will never be) a billionaire.
@aram @bastianallgeier Cap wealth at $999,999,999. Any amount beyond this will be used or distributed for the benefit of society. 😆
@aram I'm down with 2,4, and 5. At our age the hassles in travel are making 2,4, and 5 more important.
@aram A Bare-Naked Ladies song adjusted for inflation?
@aram I can’t imagine having a billion dollars because I can’t imagine doing the things it would take to extract and hoard a billion dollars in a world where almost three-quarters of a billion people are going hungry as we speak.
@aram, what else is wealth good for.
@aram Indeed! Those obsessed with ceaseless accumulation of wealth way way beyond needs rarely seem to observe how that process and the wealth itself corrupts them in multiple ways.
you’re preachin’ to the pickled choir! reading, eating, and vibing in the tub sounds like a five-star gourmet life. can i get a spoon (or a fork) of that?! let's get saucy!
@aram Imagine having a billion dollars and wasting your time doing anything other than paying taxes.
I’d still want to do science.
@aram Riding a bike
@aram I‘ve tried very often and failed. Apparently you have to be a 100% a..hole to „win“ at this game.
@aram I'd use it to push hard for ranked choice voting, universal healthcare, universal basic income, and an eventual clean break from capitalism. Selfish luxury for me would be going deeply carbon-negative - solar, geothermal, and making my home more sustainable, although I could see building an eco-friendly home in the woods. Mostly buried with a sod roof? I'd hire a tai chi instructor for the family. I'd send tons of money to the World Food Programme, MSF, etc.
Which is to say, I'd do everything I do now, but more thoroughly.
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@aram I'm ever so far from being a millionaire but I just spent so long reading a novel in the bath that I only found out what time it was when my partner came in to brush her teeth.
The rest of the list is awesome too.
@aram That would be the life!
@aram What's the point of having "fuck you" money if you're just going to kiss powerful people's asses instead of telling them "fuck you"?
@aram 6 refurbishing a flying boat
@aram 6. Getting massages
@aram So much you could do with crazy sums like that, and you'd still never want for anything yourself. But if those folks paid their share, individuals wouldn't have to be a safety net for the world. We should have built and supported better systems.
I think a couple of years ago the wife of, I think it was a professor, who upon his death found out that investments he had made came out to some stunning number.
She dedicated that money to providing free tuition to one of the Ivy League schools. I don’t think the Albert Einstein school of medicine is Ivy League..
- looked it up -
Ihttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68407453
