... if you won the lottery? The proverbial question! Say you won 50 million dollars after taxes and all that. What would you do with it? Buy a new house? New cars? New shoes? New boyfriend/girlfriend? Invest it? Give it to charity? Throw a huge party? There's so many options!
I hear winners often go bankrupt REAL quick. Let's not forget about the stress and pressure that comes with it due to "relatives" coming out of the woodwork looking to get their hands in your pockets. It would seem sometimes that the cons outweigh the pros... sike lol.
I know the odds. I know it's practically impossible but I always like to entertain the thought. Here's what I'd do:
- Create some kind of payment cycle where I pretty much earn an annual income of $150,000. I'd do the same thing for my brother (with more money) and my parents (with less money). I'd want my parents to maintain their working schedules without having any pressure to work overtime or overexert themselves unless they just loved doing the job. I'd want my brother to go into any field he wanted without any pressure of school tuition. (I did the math it comes out to about 25 mil over the course of 50 - 75 years).
- Give 5 million to my family and close relatives and do whatever they want with it. I'd suggest to them to do what I'd be doing so they don't go bankrupt but who knows if they'd listen.
- Save 10 million for my future children and grandchildren.
- Maybe give away a couple million away to the charities that I'd deem valuable or important to society.
- Pay the tuition for my close friends so they can go to school without the pressure of money haunting them (since school tuition in America is stupidly expensive).
- Buy a Range Rover haha
Once I got all the details smoothed over. I would pretty much just go about educating myself throughout my life. Between my 20 - 30s, since I'm young I'd do a lot of physical education, i.e. martial arts (boxing or bjj probably), breakdancing / dance classes, instrumentals (guitar and piano maybe drums?). I'd also try and learn 5 - 10 new languages throughout the course of my life.
Then I'd spend a lot of time in school just learning. Whatever majors I felt like pursuing, I'd probably do so. I'd try and end my life with probably 4 - 7 different Bachelor degrees and a few Masters and maybe one or two Doctorate degrees.
I don't need to live lavishly like celebrities. I'd want to be comfortable (150k/yr definitely covers that) and just be able to enjoy life. A few vacations every now and then, spoil myself whenever I felt like it. You know that kind of stuff. Who knows. But that'd be my plan. Of course all this is just a playful thought.

What would you do?
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