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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Oh, multiple assassinations.
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
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Why wouldn't you want to change others lives positively with your life?
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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"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 undergroundInfinite 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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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.
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.
And once they are done tackle cancer next pls; F*ck cancer
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I live in an area where 50 years ago the population was bordeline autonomous.
The main activities were centered around sheep, wine, a little on open grazing cattle, some cereal production and orchards.
With no money issues, I would start by buying all abandoned and empty buildings and launch a massive rebuilding and renewing campaign. This town has several centuries of history and preserving and returning people to it would be my top priority.
In tandem, I would force a massive reforestation program in the surrounding area. It is technically a national park but it is almost barren.
Paired with this, techonlogy and infrastructure would need to be developed and implemented. A small datacenter would be created deep underneath the city, cooled with waste waters. For this, a completely new and top of the line waste water management plant would be built and every available human built surface would be covered in solar panels.
Reflorestation efforts would be paired with development of forest fire detection, prevention and extinction technology.
City renovation would be planned around low density population areas, with building topping at six individual dwellings, with built in commercial areas for small local shops. Parking would be concentrated on the outskirts of the town, in purpose built buildings, leaving the core areas for walking and human powered means of transportation.
In terms of job creation, I'd start cooperatives for wine, fruit, cereals, produce and cattle, to stimulate small and medium producers to settle and develop their activities and relaunch the wool and cloth industry of the city, using the wool from locally raised sheep. As a by-product, a specialized lanolin extraction shop would be created. I'd leave traditional cheese making for small producers (the local cheese can go for crazy high prices but not for the people that have the work making it) but support creating a guild to negotiate prices.
Orchards would have support from a locally established industry to transform the lower grade fruit into jams, juices and other related products. Always coops.
There would be more to plan and but at some point I would be too busy going to court daily being accused to trampling every other interest, so I would have to have an army of people supporting my megalomaniac plan.
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I want to build garbage burning power plants in the US like in Scandinavia. It would remove methane emissions from landfills and you can do some carbon capture with scrubbers on the plants as they operate. Also, your fuel is free and the garbage companies can even charge less as they don’t have to maintain a landfill.
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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.
If you could put in like ten minutes a day planning how to stop the Trisolarian invasion, we’d appreciate it.
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I'd quit my job and pursue my interests and happiness. I'd give back to the community in meaningful ways, like distributing food and clothing. I like helping people.
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Setup an organization with the sole purpose of fighting censorship. Plus I'd want to setup artistic grants and music festivals.
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Gather a group of people, including seasoned mechanics, manufacturing workers, sales people, and engineers of different types. Go full r&d to come up with meaningful solutions to transportation, then build them.
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I would move to the moon so my back pain doesn't bother me as much.
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Create smattering of small communities around the world that are sustainable, independent and contain all the scientific knowledge and capabilities to rebuild civilization.
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I'd start an international big-ass lobby bureau for education, consummer's rights and environment protection.
