You get to keep only enough to maintain a very modest lifestyle in a low-cost-of-living area, the rest of it has to go towards improving the world in some way.
Edit: Given the previous rules that you must maintain a very modest lifestyle in a low-cost-of-living area, would you rather choose to opt out and not have the money at all?
Nuke mar a lago from space
Free mental health care for those struggling the most plus housing subsidies for those struggling to stay off the street due to mental illness.
I would start a non profit foundation that develops and maintains cost effective, autonomous boats to clean up the great garbage patch.
I am envisioning something like a small fleet of autonomous boats that dock with large motherships dump their cargo of garbage and head out again The motherships can also work with manned crafts that can handle heavier e
The motherships should be nuclear powered, have water treatment plant so the garbage can be dryed and brought to land .
Develop High yield and sophisticated lab controlled food production facilities that could run all year without fear of climate instability to rev the throttle on sustainable long term food production.
Idk, whatever I can come up with would probably have massive unintended negative consequences.
Hire assassins to take care of the 1%
$5b wouldn’t do much in the grand scheme of things but it would make me the wealthiest person in my city 10x over. I’d fund progressive campaigns across the board to stack the legislate with like-minded people and then work on building my local community and hope that it has leeching effects on the surrounding area, state(s), country.
I feel like we have very different beliefs on what “grand scheme of things” means because I don’t believe $5b will make an immediate difference right away for most people, but you can implement small things that will create ripple effects that greatly change the grand scheme of things for the future.
There are billionaires out there right now who are investing their money in trying to solve the world’s problems. Bill Gates has given away $60 billion dollars of his own money so far through his foundation as of the end of last year.
That money goes further being spent on developing nations as opposed to the USA so people don’t seem to notice. The WHO is trying to eliminate malaria by 2050 and we’ve gone from there being ~1,000,000 deaths per year in 2000 to ~300,000 cases per year in 2024.
5 billion is a lot, but it’s not quite change the world money.
I’m not looking to go on a murder spree, even if there are people out there who might deserve it. Not to mention that going after other billionaires is basically the one thing that billions of dollars can’t insulate you from.
I’d probably find an underserved region of the world, start up a hospital and health clinic, pay for good doctors, and treat patients for free for as long as we still have money.
One million dollars per assassin until one of them eventually gets through to Trump, then Vance, than Musk, Than the Republican Supreme Court. After that, a 50,000 dollar bounty on any sitting member of Trump’s Cabinet and any sitting member of the GOP.
Even if it takes every penny to finish that list and I end up right back where I started. I’ll still consider it money well spent.
Anything less than a full Nuremberg level cleanse of nazi’s in America is just not going to be sufficient.
Kill them all.
And I’m not being even the least bit facetious.
Assassins
I like where your mind is at, truly the best decision.
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I’d immediately invest most of it in stable, developed economies where the far-right doesn’t seem close to taking power—so somewhere like Finland or Singapore—and invest the rest in Syria because God knows they need it. This way I’ll have a permanent stream of change-the-world money that I can use to support pro-democracy and worker organization efforts in the third world and in countries such as Turkey where there are serious efforts to democratize. With whatever remains from that I’d then go around funding relief efforts in Africa and the like.
Find out the best application of money to buy companies and turn them into worker coops.
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Expand food banks and shelters. Then donate water to places that need it.
This completely. You cant end capitalism with that kind of money, but you can provide cheap or free alternatives to basic needs to force the price-gouging vendors to actually compete for once and align their businesses better with the consumer.
