I just inherited ~3 million $. Tell me how YOU can change the world if I give you 100k. | |
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AxX User ID: 38942157 United States 05/18/2013 10:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey OP -- I've often said that if I had the money, I'd rent billboards with educational material on it about how to drive. "Merging: It's like a zipper" and "Stay Right - Pass Left" However -- Considering the venue, I think it'd be more fun to change these billboards to something a little more "conspiracy-minded" to attempt to wake up sheeple driving down major highways. It'd get news attention, hence, further exposure. (I'd SO do this.) |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 16980057 United States 05/18/2013 10:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you gave it to www.WaterAid.org, 3,333 people would have water for life. Currently they drink water dirtier than in the Back to the Future Final sequel. This kills 4,000 chidren a day. And they have to walk 6 miles a day carrying 40 lbs. |
VarianceX77
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 39947743 Spain 05/18/2013 10:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The whole of Africa can be saved with 2 things: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 37281519 1)Elimination of anglo mineral mining (all minerals). 2)Planned grazing (Alan Savory). This cannot happen, so Africa cannot be saved. Think harder. You forgot removal of corporate interests, intelligence and the maintained instability in place to keep the status quo. Ok sure. But 100K will not buy you enough hits to get rid of the head of the snake. You need to win public opinion without the support of the current power structure. |
SmuRidley
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 37281519 United States 05/18/2013 10:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you gave it to www.WaterAid.org, 3,333 people would have water for life. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16980057 Currently they drink water dirtier than in the Back to the Future Final sequel. This kills 4,000 chidren a day. And they have to walk 6 miles a day carrying 40 lbs. Gimme a break. Why would a sane person simply "upgrade" the pathetic, filthy lives of people who will never know the difference? |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 37281519 United States 05/18/2013 10:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey OP -- Quoting: AxX 38942157 I've often said that if I had the money, I'd rent billboards with educational material on it about how to drive. "Merging: It's like a zipper" and "Stay Right - Pass Left" However -- Considering the venue, I think it'd be more fun to change these billboards to something a little more "conspiracy-minded" to attempt to wake up sheeple driving down major highways. It'd get news attention, hence, further exposure. (I'd SO do this.) Stick with the driving thing. You have my ear on that one :P |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 39682922 United States 05/18/2013 10:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would use it to help buy a farm and begin a program for teens that would help them during these years. I find that having access to that when I was young taught me many values like hard work, caring for nature, ecology, etc. that I value today. I am not seeing these types of programs anymore, esp. with lack of viable programs for kids in this age range. I worry for the generation - so stuck on the "disposable" mindset (everything it seems), material possessions, lack of work ethic, lack of understanding many basic things that the farm and nature taught me way back then. Sort of like a inner-city, day program, not a camp per say. Encouraging the generation to appreciate things beyond the tv or computer/video screen. Get outdoors, etc. Utopia, I want to try to instill some good ole fashioned values into them somehow. I worry for our planet because of the values that are now emphasized in our society. Quoting: Spazz You can start a farm for $5000. Sell a car and do it. I hear ya, I wish it was that easy, it probably is somewhere, just not here. Just spent 6 years paying for my car, paid off and only have the one and it is a necessary thing to have in this climate so I can travel back and forth to my slave job to barely support my child. One day, I am hopeful. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 37281519 United States 05/18/2013 10:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The whole of Africa can be saved with 2 things: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 37281519 1)Elimination of anglo mineral mining (all minerals). 2)Planned grazing (Alan Savory). This cannot happen, so Africa cannot be saved. Think harder. You forgot removal of corporate interests, intelligence and the maintained instability in place to keep the status quo. Ok sure. But 100K will not buy you enough hits to get rid of the head of the snake. You need to win public opinion without the support of the current power structure. Ok, remove ALL whites from Africa and give the smart Africans a book by Alan Savory. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 39947743 Spain 05/18/2013 10:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you gave it to www.WaterAid.org, 3,333 people would have water for life. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16980057 Currently they drink water dirtier than in the Back to the Future Final sequel. This kills 4,000 chidren a day. And they have to walk 6 miles a day carrying 40 lbs. Gimme a break. Why would a sane person simply "upgrade" the pathetic, filthy lives of people who will never know the difference? That's vulgar. They can contribute as much as you and I once they are educated. I agree that if you want to "give" anything stop giving supplies and start giving them knowledge how to build, innovate and hold their own. |
SmuRidley
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LeaderOfTheBand
User ID: 17179789 United States 05/18/2013 10:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No sob story here, which is why simply put, I'd just give it away! My philosophy, and I'm sticking to it hah "Who shall I send, and who will go for us?' And I replied, 'Here am I. Send me..." For I have not given up on my country, so may my country not give up on me. semper fucking fi. |
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ObservantOne
User ID: 31617691 United States 05/18/2013 10:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I already own 6 acres of firewood and a rocket mass stove to increase the efficiency by 900%. I am not some schmuck. I don't need this money at all. Message me if you are interested in working with a like-minded person that can help you exponentionally grow it. I stand to inherit a lot too between 8 and 10 million, as of right now though I make own fortune daily helping retail investors thrive in a market ruled by generally oligarchs and insiders. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 38942157 United States 05/18/2013 10:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey OP -- Quoting: AxX 38942157 I've often said that if I had the money, I'd rent billboards with educational material on it about how to drive. "Merging: It's like a zipper" and "Stay Right - Pass Left" However -- Considering the venue, I think it'd be more fun to change these billboards to something a little more "conspiracy-minded" to attempt to wake up sheeple driving down major highways. It'd get news attention, hence, further exposure. (I'd SO do this.) Stick with the driving thing. You have my ear on that one :P Done! There are graphics and other phrases to go with the driving theme. However, I also noticed nowhere did you say you were going to write a check, or otherwise give the money, to anyone. In addition, your first sentence solidified your decision to get hookers and an airplane because you know idiots don't read and will give you some sob story about their kids, cancer, or sick dog. That being said, enjoy your miserable dollars -- If you were insinuating that you were going to give $100k to "the best idea in the thread," then I stand with mine over the others so far. Good luck, sir! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 37394472 United States 05/18/2013 10:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | With 100K I would first start by registering a few website names. I could also pay for hosting for the next 10 years up front. With those websites, I could attempt to attract like minded individuals to these websites. Furthermore, I could also use this money to hire a few marketing interns for a couple of months to drive traffic to the websites. I could also hire an adept programmer to help me design the website. The websites would be based on Libertarianism and how to become free in this world. I think a massive listing of literature and some YT videos could be a start. They would attempt to teach people how money helps people to become free. The more money you have, the more freedom of choice you possess. User generated discussion and debate forums with basic financial advising information should also be included on the websites. We should target a younger demographic and make things colorful and simple. The only way to change the world is to start with the children. Possibly even make cartoon Libertarian game software and Apps that teach people the basics of property ownership and personal responsibility in the world. 100K could actually go a really long way, if you can develop this model to generate small amounts of revenue. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 40076569 United States 05/18/2013 10:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would use the money for my information campaign (with the money I could really do a good job on my 'Illumination Film) , which centers on enlightening all people of the world that we live in a "magical" world where everyone should focus on a life filled with fulfilling their dreams, learning about all facets of life, and generally always having the time of their life whether it be raising a large family or travelling the world and going on all sorts of adventures. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 40076569 The idea is that we plant a paradise (also irrigate as many areas as possible by engineering streams from rivers and between river/stream fed lakes) for ourselves and our fellow ANIMALS. Our garden of eden would provide us with a beautiful, serene, stress-free environment where countless superfoods (ganja will be everywhere) are found in abundance. We shall live in peace with our livestock that we raise with no bounds. My cow is your cow, simply because cows outnumber the people. Through doing this we will all become richer than our wildest dreams, only this time the wealth isn't fabricated. It's very real. We are gods. We need to live and act like it. Your heart is in the right place, but you lack knowledge. On the contrary, my friend. If you were knowledgable you would be using your wealth for a meaningful purpose such as the one I have commited my entire life to. I would die for this mission. It took me about a month to think of the first step in returning to a world without sin, and no matter how many times I took things apart in my head, the first and most important step was always to spread the love and knowledge. Do not think that I do not know how to go about bringing paradise into fruition, for in every area untouched by man paradise already exists. The key is getting man to realize this. You perhaps have your doubts, but if you were ot meditate on the idea of a perfect, sustainable world, you'll see that the only other option would liekly be a Matrix/Prometheus like future. This cannot be allowed to happen for all that is good and Holy (Watch 'The Future Is Wild' - Our so called "progress" is hindering the evolution of every living thing!) Granted, yes, It will be a daunting but completely rewarding journey, so I seek to aquire funding for my campaign through my many talents. You do not strike me as the type who would give out 100k to someone over the internet, but it is my hope that you use your paper lies to deliver truth (I can be of assistance in suggesting many ways your 100k can do the world a lot of good if you so desire) . Remember, Jesus was called a fool... |
SmuRidley
User ID: 39242274 Canada 05/18/2013 10:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | He had participated in the culling of 40,000 elephants in the 1950s but he later concluded the culling did not reverse the degradation of the land, calling that project "the saddest and greatest blunder of my life." [link to en.wikipedia.org] fuck you OP |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 37281519 United States 05/18/2013 10:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you gave it to www.WaterAid.org, 3,333 people would have water for life. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16980057 Currently they drink water dirtier than in the Back to the Future Final sequel. This kills 4,000 chidren a day. And they have to walk 6 miles a day carrying 40 lbs. Gimme a break. Why would a sane person simply "upgrade" the pathetic, filthy lives of people who will never know the difference? That's vulgar. They can contribute as much as you and I once they are educated. I agree that if you want to "give" anything stop giving supplies and start giving them knowledge how to build, innovate and hold their own. The population of the "third" world has only exploded due to trickle down of inflationary "wealth" from developed nations. Those populations due nothing but eat and shit and fuck. I am enlightened, but I am not a knee-jerk liberal-minded idiot. You sheep-apes simply MUST become more pragmatic in your thinking. Those people who so wish to "save" should not even exist. Before the trickle down of white exploitation, those were hunter gatherers with hundreds of years of cultural momentum. Now, they are nothing but caged animals waiting for the next handout to trickle down. It's no sort of existence at all. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 37281519 United States 05/18/2013 10:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Alan Savory: Quoting: SmuRidley He had participated in the culling of 40,000 elephants in the 1950s but he later concluded the culling did not reverse the degradation of the land, calling that project "the saddest and greatest blunder of my life." [link to en.wikipedia.org] fuck you OP A person cannot learn from their mistakes? You are the saddest kind of human. |
Ðisembodied~Mind
User ID: 39577461 Colombia 05/18/2013 10:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would start my own Think Tank Quoting: Open Your Eyes And talk to the CIA and think of ways to wake people up in a logical, safe, and informed way THIS Ah so that was the group that gave you the name of the last vehicle? “The living being had no need of eyes because there was nothing outside of him to be seen; nor of ears because there was nothing to be heard; and there was no surrounding atmosphere to be breathed; nor would there have been any use of organs by the help of which he might receive his food or get rid of what he had already digested, since there was nothing which went from him or came into him: for there was nothing beside him. Of design he created thus; his own waste providing his own food, and all that he did or suffered taking place in and by himself. For the Creator conceived that a being which was self-sufficient would be far more excellent than one which lacked anything; and, as he had no need to take anything or defend himself against any one, the Creator did not think it necessary to bestow upon him hands: nor had he any need of feet, nor of the whole apparatus of walking; but the movement suited to his spherical form which was designed by him, being of all the seven that which is most appropriate to mind and intelligence; and he was made to move in the same manner and on the same spot, within his own limits revolving in a circle. All the other six motions were taken away from him, and he was made not to partake of their deviations. And as this circular movement required no feet, the universe was created without legs and without feet.” -Plato |
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