[dba-Tech] OT: What would you do with $100B?

> What would you do with $100B?

I think I might buy WhatsApp.

- Hans

On Feb 26, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just finished reading the articles at Wired and NYT about Egon's latest
> adventures, and also the Shimizu plan to create an 11K solar strip on the
> moon and broadcase said power back to Earth.
> 
> Which raises the question... Suppose your app went viral and suddenly you
> had a million users, with attendant revenues. What would you do with the
> money?
> 
> As an initial guess, I would factor in Number of Spouses (did you know that
> the plural of Spouse is Spice?), number of college-ready children,
> outstanding mortgage, car leases/loans, etc.
> 
> But let us suppose that all these exigencies could be handled by the first
> B of your $100B, denominated in US $.
> 
> What would you do with the rest? Would you join Bill Gates's foundation and
> donate 51% toward curing malaria and similar infectious diseases? Would you
> put some loot into breast-cancer research? Send medicine + education to
> Third World countries (e.g. this concerns some African beliefs that if you
> sleep with a very young girl, you stave off HIV/AIDS)? Or, radically
> alternative to the aforementioned proposals, would you choose to keep it
> all and let the lawyers figure it out upon your demise?
> 
> I know that it's an imaginary question, but nonetheless I shall be
> interested in your responses. Even if we divide the amount by 100, it's
> still more money than you could possibly spend in the rest of your life, no
> matter how serious your habits; so what would you do with $1B? For
> starters... and then what would you do with $100B?
> 
> As for me, I would join the group of billionaires that the Gates's have
> formed, that includes Warren Buffet and Sir Richard Branson and 120 others,
> all of whom have decided to give a minimum of 51% away, towards such causes
> as curing malaria and polio. As for me, I would go a lot further, and give
> away about 90% not 51%, leaving me enough to go vacation in Mallorca and
> Shanghai and Havana every year pending my demise.
> 
> And you? What would you do?
> 
> Arthur
> 
> -- 
> Arthur
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