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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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  • little8lost@lemmy.worldL [email protected]

    "fire that carbon off into interstellar space"
    You probably would generate more carbon doing that (because of rocket science)
    Best thing would be putting it back where it came from -> deep underground

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    My infinite money has built a space elevator to eliminate the need for rocket launches.

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      First things first, I'd spend the next five years quietly buying majority shares of major tech companies through proxies and then create a faux investment board that forces these companies to bend to my will.

      during those five years I would be collecting as much evidence as possible against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and use it against them as leverage and make them my pawns.

      final part of the plan is to apply pressure to world governments to comply or face economic collapse through pressuring licensing and legal redtape for operating businesses across the globe.

      my goals are simple

      1. free the people
      2. heal the people
      3. burn out corruption
      4. abolish capitalism
      5. free the market

      it's far more complex than what I could even begin to describe here, but that's the gist of it.

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          I bet I could throw this football over them mountains.

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          If coach had only put me in.

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            “Not all women are in to a man just for his money. “

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            Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me are.

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            • toomanypancakes@piefed.worldT [email protected]
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              Oh, multiple assassinations.

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                Look for a cure for Alzheimer’s/dementia. Once it’s found give the directions to make the cure away to the world for free.

                To find it I’d just keep hiring researchers to look for the cure. A world wide research project.

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                  Some real good suggestions.

                  Im going to add

                  • space elevator
                  • space hooks around the solar system
                  • Dyson sphere
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                    Pay off the debts of all countries in the world thus ushering in an era of peace and co-operation. Also, cocaine and hookers.

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                      Oh, multiple assassinations.

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                      yeah where's that bullionaire/oligarch/CEO list?

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                        Everyone already said the humanitarian ones. I'd live in an off-grid, self-sustaining chalet in a remote mountain location with a wood shop, nice garage for project cars, and high speed internet.

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                          Surely time travel will be possible with infinite money.

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                            Obviously all the usual stuff like solving hunger, curing disease, ending inequality, fixing climate crisis, etc.

                            But if we're talking about something just for me... DJing.

                            Having the time and space to practice mixing vinyl, plus the resources to buy all the records, and better quality equipment.

                            Having the freedom to do it as a hobby without the pressure of it ever being a job.

                            Also, I'd buy my football ⚽ team, and run them the way I think they should be run.

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                              Why wouldn't you want to change others lives positively with your life? 😅

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                              I do already, but there were like 15 altruistic answers and no one provided a single actual desire. I appreciate Lemmy’s eternal selflessness, but we can’t even fantasize in a casual conversation without virtue signaling here and it can be a bit tiring sometimes. (Wouldn’t want to be any other place, though)

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                                Well if the money is in paper currency I would burn it to boil water to spin a turbine to generate infinite electricity.

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                                  Hire product designers and artists to go to every high school art classroom and ask kids "If you could invent anything in the world, what would it be?" and then draw it for them. So they can get a taste of that feeling that they too have something to contribute to the world. Put the ideas up on a site like kickstarter, with the profits going towards their college education. Nvm, fuck that. I'd pay for college for everybody.

                                  I'd also travel while I could before the planet gets much hotter.

                                  I feel like these are small goals left over from when I was younger bc I can't properly conceive of what a world without scarcity for me and everyone else looks like. I'd start with the housing problem though, bc that's what I'm facing rn.

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                                  • little8lost@lemmy.worldL [email protected]

                                    "fire that carbon off into interstellar space"
                                    You probably would generate more carbon doing that (because of rocket science)
                                    Best thing would be putting it back where it came from -> deep underground

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                                    Infinite money gives you as many nuclear reactors as you want, then you can make arbitrary amounts of rocket fuel by electrolys of water.

                                    It'd still probably be better to shine LEDs at lots of kelp in bits of the sea where there's not enough natural light for kelp, burn the kelp into charcoal, and bury the charcoal, though.

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                                    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldJ [email protected]

                                      So 150 to 200 MPH? I can get behind that.

                                      I think the real problem with trains though is that because they do multiple stops and airlines don't, the maximum speed isn't the issue.

                                      Take a flight from Portland to San Francisco, under 2 hours, 1 hour, 48 minutes says Google.

                                      Amtrak is 21 hours, double the time as driving it (I say this as someone who HAS driven it. A couple of times now, it's actually a really nice drive.)

                                      But the problem is the multiple stops, you can't go 200 MPH because there isn't enough time to get up to speed before you have to slow down for the next stop.

                                      Portland to Salem is 47 miles. Salem to Albany is 24 miles. Albany to Eugene is 44 miles. You don't really have a chance to open up the speed until you hit the run to Chemult which is 101 miles.

                                      1:55p | 2:22p - Portland, OR - Union Station (PDX)

                                      3:36p | 3:39p - Salem, OR - Amtrak Station (SLM)

                                      4:11p | 4:14p - Albany, OR (ALY)

                                      5:08p | 5:15p - Eugene, OR - Amtrak Station (EUG)

                                      8:13p | 8:13p - Chemult, OR (CMO)

                                      9:58p | 10:08p - Klamath Falls, OR (KFS)

                                      12:45a | 12:45a - Dunsmuir, CA (DUN)

                                      2:31a | 2:31a - Redding, CA - Amtrak Station (RDD)

                                      4:12a | 4:12a - Chico, CA (CIC)

                                      6:28a | 6:48a - Sacramento, CA - Sacramento Valley Station (SAC)

                                      7:05a | 7:05a - Davis, CA (DAV)

                                      7:54a | 7:54a - Martinez, CA (MTZ)

                                      8:29a | 8:39a - Emeryville, CA (EMY)

                                      8:54a | 9:09a - Oakland, CA - Jack London Square Station (OKJ)

                                      Then you hop a bus from Emeryville to San Francisco proper which is another hour or so. Or stay on the train to Oakland and get a bus there. Same deal, about an hour.

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                                      If you have enough trains, and enough track for them to go past each other, you can have direct trains that go faster and don't stop.

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                                        Worldwide free schools, free Healthcare, free shelters and free educations for all who need it

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                                          Look for a cure for Alzheimer’s/dementia. Once it’s found give the directions to make the cure away to the world for free.

                                          To find it I’d just keep hiring researchers to look for the cure. A world wide research project.

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                                          And once they are done tackle cancer next pls; F*ck cancer

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