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Imagine you have infinite dollars backing you. What's the thing you'd want to pursue just because it's something you'd like to do with your life?

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    Build a time machine to travel back to the right moment in time to beat the shit out of people who grow up to be scumbags because they never got the shit beat out of them.

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    I bet I could throw this football over them mountains.

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      I will fund biology/gene manipulation until I can become a dog. Woof.

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        Open source hardware. Like, fully working enterprise grade that also scales down to Chromebook-budget.

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          Probably some FOSS projects. There's a few things bugging me and I have a custom DSL/programming language idea I've been dreaming about for the last ~2-3 years that's like if Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes and Nix had a baby together. It's 2025, how come is it that I can't just "one Lemmy instance at lemmy.max-p.me please" and get a worldwide multi-cloud multi-million user capacity instance in 10 minutes.

          Next on my list would be a filesystem, because for some reason I find myself wanting something that's LVM, ZFS, Ceph and PostgreSQL all in one. It's 2025, how come I can't just be "here's all my drives, and the drives on my NAS, and the drives on my remote server, figure out some nice unified filesystem for all of this shit".

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            I feel like a lot of people are missing the “with your life” part of this. While I’m sure I’d love to magically fix the world’s problems, to answer the actual question:

            I’ve always pictured a house built into the side of a cliff face that’s right next to a road. The rock pulls away to reveal the garage whenever I’m nearby. I’d have just a few rooms, nothing too crazy. I’ve always loved the idea of an underground house. I’d also have a decent-sized workshop/garage for the many projects I’m always working on.

            I’d also try starting my own business for the first time and I’d be curious to see how my skillset applies. I can’t bring myself to do it in today’s current situation.

            That and a Lamborghini. Because why the hell not? That’s what fantasy is for.

            All this comes with the disclaimer that I don’t have any kids.

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              Buy the USA and sell it for scrap, like a venture capitalist.

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                Producing Broadway shows. The whole process of workshopping a theatrical production just seems like such an interesting - and communal - art form.

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                • wirelesswire@lemmy.zipW [email protected]

                  Why wait until after? With infinite money, you could buy controlling interest in every game publisher, fire and replace the execs, and have the studios focus their efforts on making quality games, rather than monetization.

                  Of course, you could also start your own studio(s) and make whatever the hell you wanted.

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                  All of the above please

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                    Run a dog sanctuary, just me and a big piece of land with tons of dogs. Animals are better than people, give unconditional love, and don't drain my batteries like other people do

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                    • infinitevalence@discuss.onlineI [email protected]

                      I would divest the world from fossil fuels, fund carbon capture. Build housing and mass transit like mad. Feed everyone who needs it, make education and healthcare human rights.

                      Basically star trek.

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                      make education and healthcare human rights.

                      They are already. Just not respected in the same way everywhere.

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                        End fascism

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                        How's that related to money?

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                          If I must be selfish: Really really big telescopes/particle colliders and space exploration both sound very nice.

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                          Find the Borg and make an end with them!

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                            Beat the world record for most inflated currency. And femboy hooters

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                              you have infinite dollars

                              Spend infinite dollars in a short time until the dollar is worthless.

                              Then, live a simple life somewhere in the Mediterranean.

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                                Pursue a career in culinary, burn myself out in commercial kitchens, then become a home cook and cook for family and friends holding BBQ and potluck block parties every week.

                                I realize during covid that I wasnt feeling fulfilled with my office job, and did odd jobs in between. One of it was helping a mutual friend's small eatery as a cook. And felt fulfilled in he short 3 months I worked there before they were forced to shut down because of continuing lock down and a flood, than the up to that point 7 years of office work.

                                I don't have savings to just cut off not working, took too many debt and got scammed out of a simple fraud credit card spending scam call. And my mental health was spiraling down to suicide ideation. Silver lining at that office was that we were contracted with a hospital to set up a mental health triage system so I got help from there. Bad thing was 2 years ago that team just left the company wholesale and even advised me not to go anywhere. Now I feel trapped that the meager amounts of searching for other work, not knowing how to whore myself out to companies for better pay because idk what the fuck I've done to whore out, just to fight inflation as the world is going to hell in a hand basket.

                                I'm a gullible motherfucker 🥹

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                                  End income disparity.

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                                    Fuck it I deserve to treat myself to a few congresspeople and media companies

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                                      I would do so those things we said we would do as children i.e feed people. But, also go after all these fools destroying our world.

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                                      Yeah. I don't see how people hear "infinite dollars" and say they want to get into cooking or develop an app. I would pay millions of people across the globe a thriving wage to take direct action saving coastal kelp forests, rebuild ecosystems without permission, and maybe even get around to some vigilantism.

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                                        How's that related to money?

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                                        Money can reshape governments

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                                          I'd start a gay gym with pool, spa, sauna, bar etc. I'm talking about the kind of place where you will see obscenities.

                                          EDIT: These threads always make me lose my faith with humanity as I read people share their violent and sadistic fantasies.

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