What would you do if you "had the money"?

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

I would spend it.

On drugs, mostly.

If psychedelics didn't have a rapid onset shared tolerance I'd never be sober again.

 

[Meiwaku]

I have a chain I'd invest in. Also a few other things that I would put money in.

I'd also get myself industrial 3d printers to be autistic with and make brutalist style furniture for myself.

I'd build an insane looking house. Not inherently square footage mega mansion level, but instead architecturally awesome with areas for my insane hobbies. I'd build guest houses to so people could come and stay extended. I also want to restore a Meiji era house (Japan) to as close to historically correct as possible. See what type of places my ancestors lived in. You can also buy old castles in europe from the 13th century and i think historical restoration is important there too. Ruins say some things but a living museum? That's way better. There's houses in murica too that are noteworthy that I think would be cool like that.

And best of all, I'd buy my freedom to do nothing. Just live as I want. I likely wouldn't tell many people I had money. I'd try to negotiate deals for native americans to expand their rez and have more self sufficiency building any infrastructure they need. Knew a guy who didn't have running water til he was like 18. That's fucked up. You can't treat people like that. Put money to promote the issue of MMIW (missing & murdered indigenous women) because yankees and leafs keep yeeting because nobody cares.

I have a few friends I'd put up who always were real G's who are brokeish and help them fund their own dreams. A lot of them have noble pursuits they're trying for and even if I only gave them a place to stay that's a lot.

The most fucked up part of having a life isn't the lack of capital it's the lack of time to master and do everything you want to do. Time. Time is the cuck of the Human Condition.

 

[Burt Ryan]

Travel a lot. Get a vehicle for every environment, so ideally a yacht, a private jet plane and one of those luxury / comfort RV and just fuck it, travel anywhere.

 

[starborn427614]

I'd probably build a dream house. Screening room, underground swimming pool, maybe a secret passage here or there.

 

[Pringles Can]

Idk. Food or something. I'm starving.

 

[Timmy Jolsen]

I'd pay to take my mother to the states and get her proper medical treatment, since she'll never see anyone with the waiting lists here, and if she hassles for help in this country there's a good chance the doctors will suggest euthanasia, since she's permanently and severely disabled. After that I'd probably buy some drugs for myself, have a pool put in, and hire a maid to help her out around the house a couple times a month.

 

[Amateur Shoelace Tyer]

I'd start a junkyard/tow service and run it at a loss for fun by not charging people fees for cars that I think were unfairly towed. I'd also enjoy taunting people trying to get their car back after a DUI. I'd really enjoy living a life of just towing cars to shops or to the yard, helping people with flats, and working on 30 different project cars with my friends. A little vehicle workshop for people with no space or lifts would be cool too if the safety concerns and insurance wasn't such a nightmare (even if price was no issue).

Start up a car manufacturing plant that plagiarizes imitates old shitboxes from the 1990's. My goal would be to offer ordinary people extremely affordable transportation that's easy to modify or repair, has minimal computers, no modern luxuries and uses newer fuel efficiency methods & safety precautions. In my perfect world you will be able to go fast on a budget of a few grand. Models wouldn't be restricted by country either so you could drive an AE86 in Alberta or a Trans-Am in Akihabara.

That would RULE. New car designs are very bland and samey but if I see a beat-up Prelude, a Mitsubishi GT 3000, or even just an old Ford Explorer back when they had the square headlights and boxy profile my head will whip around for a second look.

 

[Damien Thorne]

I would take my better half on a cruise all around the world. Selfish? Perhaps, but that is what I would do if I had the money.

 

[Liquid Kent]

Leave my girlfriend, buy a good private house (one of those ostentatious properties) and get my lover to move in with me.

Throw money at my family for them to piss off when they ask me to attend a family gathering or "to be one of them". Solve their problems for them but always throwing money in their faces at the end out of spite.

Also I go cruising around a Dome Zero painted in SG Rodimus colors. Flames and all.

 

[MisoSupper]

I'd
1) Buy up most of the prisons in the US and reform them drastically with more education programs, better training for guards, cleaner facilities, better food, and programs made specifically for rehabilitation.
2) Create a super-PAC to advance my political aims
3) Build a massive datacenter that archives the entire internet, free from censorship. If you request something to be removed, we tell you to fuck off.
4) Build a modern "Library of Alexandra" (the datacenter mentioned before is the digital companion to the physical library).
5) Create a company that goes around restaurants, collects unused food, freezes it and redistribute it locally or elsewhere
6) Retire somewhere in a weak 3rd world shithole and build a private army and declare independence from said shithole

 

[XANA]

You know what, I just had another thought. If I was Arnault/Musk/Bezos-levels of rich, I'd bankroll this website. I don't mean take over because I don't know anything about running and maintaining a site (plus, it's Null's in the first place), but literally make a Tier 1 ISP company, hosting company, DDOS-protection service - everything, just so the site can't be knocked down.

...All because I find downtime annoying and using the TOR site inconvenient. I want to read stupid rants and look at funny pictures, damn it!

 

[Clown]

I'd buy a nice, large plot of land in a forest near a big river and build a home there. I'd use older techniques and hire specialists to build a Hobbit Home out of stone and wood, fit it with wiring and hook it up to the nearest mains for plumbing, and have it run via a small hydrodam I'd get installed in the river. I'd want the house big enough to fit myself and allow any guests to stay over. Getting the internet to run there would also be a big one, but I'd manage it somehow with the funds.

From there, I'd ensure the plot of land has a diverse ecosystem of animals who all regulate the land of their own accord. The only time I'd interfere or do any proper maintenance myself would be to clear a reasonable path from my home to the way out of the forest, and to clear away anything that interferes with the technical sides of my house. Maybe once a year I'd hire a company to give a checkup on the dam just in-case something needs fixing. Might even start a small farm and grow my own food, hunt some of the animals in the forest area, and do my best to have a peaceful life.

 

[Haliaeetus Vocifer]

Buy lots of acreage in the countryside, backed onto woods and build a decent sized farmhouse with all new appliances, white picket fence, an arena, barns, indoor/outdoor pool, bar, etc.
Somewhere with all 4 seasons, ideally.
Have my folks live on the land with me, retire them and have them all taken care of, of course.
Grab a bunch of horses and hire people to take care of them for me. Maybe start a rehab/rescue center and save some ex-racehorses and work horses from going to slaughter and find them good homes, give them a second chance.
Ideally, I would like to spend my days manicuring my yard, cutting the grass, taking care of the house, baking, cooking, buying new toys for my property, gardening, riding my horses, feeding the birds.
Just to be able to sit on my porch every morning, overlooking my property with a book and a coffee. Solitude, no debt, no mortgage, animals, family.

 

[JokahBaybee]

Oh.
Where to BEGIN.

I'd pull an Elon Musk and buy discord. I'd then fire half the staff, especially the trannies and furries, crack down on pedo shit, tweak the infrastructure so it becomes less beholden to hate speech laws and government censorship as if it were a publisher, increase the OPSEC a hundredfold, and make it impossible to ban people without warnings first, and impossible to ban them for a year even then (jannies will be forever seething)
I'd buy up a bunch of near-dead or irrelevant alternative social media and media enterprises (Vid.me, Indy Mogul, FyreTV, amino, etc.) and consolidate them into my own alt-tech platforms, with proper marketing this time.
I'd then buy a bunch of servers and web infrastructure to make a platform whereby people can create and customize their own BBS Forums as easily as they can Discord servers (I've seen even niche discords outmatch fully coded forums in content), while at the same time, behind closed doors, paying a whole bunch of people to DDoS the entire WhiteForest network (those who know will kek).
I'd buy a fuckton of nice clothes. Custom suits, leather shoes, pitti uomo tier shit. I'd "get a little work done" on my face too.

Start up a car manufacturing plant that plagiarizes imitates old shitboxes from the 1990's. My goal would be to offer ordinary people extremely affordable transportation that's easy to modify or repair, has minimal computers, no modern luxuries and uses newer fuel efficiency methods & safety precautions. In my perfect world you will be able to go fast on a budget of a few grand. Models wouldn't be restricted by country either so you could drive an AE86 in Alberta or a Trans-Am in Akihabara.

I'd do that, but for suits and other such menswear. It seems these days that there isn't enough of a middle market for suits. There's either polyester-rayon skinny-fit garbage, or expensive suits with hand-stitched buttonholes. I'd bring back actually good cuts and styles of suits, not too boxy and long, not too skinny and short, and perhaps compromise on construction quality but refuse to compromise on fabric purity. It really is a shame how theres so much third world labour going into making clothes and it's not even going into making good shit, mostly just shein dresses and walmart tees. Think of how much surplus cotton we'd have if we stopped wasting it on polyester blend athleisure crap.

Other Ideas (from the most reasonable to full schizo supervillain):

• Fund indie film and TV studios
• Shoehorn myself into the writing team of Hazbin Hotel and make it actually good
• Fund indie films of my own
• Make an external TF2 client with built-in P2P/queue-based server hosting, in the hopes that it finally makes vanilla TF2 obsolete and Valve will either sell the whole IP to us as a shell studio or do update it them-fucking-selves.

• Take out $40,000 and buy a vacant lot, Refuse to sell it despite the rage of bankers, and build a statue of Timothy Dexter on it for shits and giggles.

• Build airfields, race tracks and gun ranges across the street from rich people houses to plumet their property value, then swoop in and buy their shit when they want to leave.
  
  
• Make a flight school and deliberately put the traffic pattern right above somebody's house
  
  
• Fund a political campaign, with one of the promises being that I will fund research and medical aid for Transgenders and Detransitioners alike (effectively turning troon activist brains into pretzels as they try to find a way to complain about this without revealing their true colors)
• Become one of the corporate overlords that runs the world behind the scenes, hobknob with them whilst using my own influence to undermine their every move
• Fund a whole bunch of crazy biotechnology, cybernetics, and medical research that spits in the face of the globalist goyslop agenda, unraveling their genetic engineering and open-sourcing scientific advancements that will turn the general populous into gigachads and gigastaceys* that fuck like rabbits, provide for themselves, and overcome their concrete-zoo programming.
• Manufacture scientific "black swan events" that blindside the powers that be such that all their centuries-spanning plans to conquer the world become absolutely fucking useless and far outpace any attempt to reassess the situation.
  
  
  *And I don't even mean in the RETVRN Tradbro way, I wanna see it get really weird. Cyberfurries, Weaboo Larpers, KingCobra-esque lolcows, doesn't matter as long as they're hard to wrangle and untainted by goyslop and microplastics. In fact, being that healthy would probably make a lot of them less retarded and useless.

 

[Ita Mori]

World domination.
We all hate bankers and corps like Blackrock, but let's be real... we'd do the same if we had that level of influence and power.
Only difference is the goal and vision for the future.

 

[JokahBaybee]

World domination.
We all hate bankers and corps like Blackrock, but let's be real... we'd do the same if we had that level of influence and power.
Only difference is the goal and vision for the future.

That's precisely what I'm talking about. You don't even have to be obvious about it. In fact, it's better if you don't. It's worked pretty well for Blackrock (The WEF and it's bond-supervillain-in-chief notwithstanding).
Running things from the darkness, nudging the world by dozens of degrees of removal in any direction you like, that's the way to do it.
As for my vision for the future, I put it to words in my own post, but to go even further, it would be nice to shift the general relationship we have with technology, even society, away from its current form and into something more pre-industrial and individualistic. Sort of like a post-apocalyptic western/medieval fantasy, except the world as we knew it ended slowly and easily, with all the technology we actually did want coming with us.

 

[ryuichi]

probably release this goddamn game already