Philanthropy

[Treeinthewoods]

Buying every copy of ET back in the eighties seemed so stupid to your friends and family, but you figured out that in the year 2012 ET would become so ironically cool that people happily pay hundreds of dollars for a single copy so they can talk about how bad it is.

Selling all those copies made you enough to hire a game designer who helped you launch a multi-million dollar game company. Your first major success was ET 2: Back for Blood. The game was so ironically cool for being terrible it sold a billion copies and only cost you $300 to develop over a weekend using RPG Maker. Also you had to buy pizza. Before you retire you release seventeen sequels that rocket the ET franchise into the single best selling game franchise ever (beating out Mario by a few hundred thousand). Spielberg made ET, you made him awesome.

Now you are rich beyond your wildest dreams and have retired to your life of luxury. Yet somehow, you don't feel complete. The world has provided so much for you, you now decide it's time to improve the world. How do you do it? Start a new charity? Donate to existing ones? Commission massive libraries and other centers of learning? Buy food for homeless cats and scatter it throughout dark alleys? Keep it around two million dollars a year.

Skip long story - You are really rich and decide to do good things with your money. What do you do? Two million dollar a year budget!

I'd donate to homeless shelters in my city, commission construction of a half way house for recovering homeless addicts that helps with job placement, and I'd set up a scholarship fund for 10 graduates per year of said rehabilitation program. Any left over I would start offering scholarships to local high school graduates who wanted to attend the local university (based strictly on academics).

 

[hortez the champion of the frozen wastes]

Buy the US senate off their corporate driven throne. Eh maybe save up for a few years?

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Build my own charities because I really don't trust a lot of them, and when my school got money they became idiots and decided to destroy a couple wings over the summer, dig up most of the parking lot, and made the amazing decision to rebuild it all over the school year.

 

[Treeinthewoods]

Buy the US senate off their corporate driven throne. Eh maybe save up for a few years?

Emphasis on rich beyond your wildest dreams. Think of Bill Gates money, he doesn't need to save for a few years or even a few hours. He has so much money it practically needs to be given away.

 

[googleit6]

Would going to the rough side of town and just handing out bundles of money count? At least then you know it's going right to the source.

 

[Vilcus]

I'd have a sort of computer scholarship every year, and people would write into me every year and plead their case. In order to make the criteria one must have a sufficiently crappy computer that seriously needs upgrades (I'm talking can't run Warcraft 3 on minimum crappy). Then on October seventh of every year(my birthday), I would announce the winners and have top of the line computers sent to them (along with 5 PC games of their choosing). This may not be "Make the world a paradise." good, but it still does some good.

I would do this mainly because I know how horrible it is to not be able to play awesome games because your system is made of fail. Also because I am a strange person with very screwed up priorities.

 

[Betancore]

Put it towards fighting the Church of Scientology in court. Or something. I like your idea of offering scholarships - I think I'd set up a system to provide grants to students who show a great deal of potential etc, and have it named after me, so that when I die, I will have something named after me. I like that.

 

[Mumonk]

Build a doomsday weapon, not to kill everyone, but to cause some kinda world wide sterilization so humans can't repopulate, thus saving the future of earth and other planets/aliens the horrors of mankind.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Is it bad that the first thing I thought of was the anti-Metal Gear project?

And to be completely honest... I'd probably spend most of it on myself. Buy a nice car/house and a lot of games... perhaps buy a small island somewhere... but as I get older I would probably start donating...

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

Buy myself an army and start go for world conquest. The only way I could truly improve the world is if I am in charge. Thus I have to make it so that I am in charge...

 

[burningdragoon]

Is it bad that the first thing I thought of was the anti-Metal Gear project?

Well of course not.

Anyway, I would probably just walk around places and give out money to random people. Extra if I see them do something really deserving. I guess give to some charities as well, but I like my total randomness plan. Someone give me 2 million dollars.

 

[Rasputin1]

Rich beyond my wildest dreams..

Well, First I'd move every single person out of Ireland. Then I'd get the biggest bulldozer ever seen, ever, and level the whole country. Make it completly flat. Then I'll big the worlds biggest castle and live in it forever! Also I'd put in huuge catapults so I can get rid of my rubbish when I need too.

 

[Talshere]

Buying every copy of ET back in the eighties seemed so stupid to your friends and family, but you figured out that in the year 2012 ET would become so ironically cool that people happily pay hundreds of dollars for a single copy so they can talk about how bad it is.

Selling all those copies made you enough to hire a game designer who helped you launch a multi-million dollar game company. Your first major success was ET 2: Back for Blood. The game was so ironically cool for being terrible it sold a billion copies and only cost you $300 to develop over a weekend using RPG Maker. Also you had to buy pizza. Before you retire you release seventeen sequels that rocket the ET franchise into the single best selling game franchise ever (beating out Mario by a few hundred thousand). Spielberg made ET, you made him awesome.

Now you are rich beyond your wildest dreams and have retired to your life of luxury. Yet somehow, you don't feel complete. The world has provided so much for you, you now decide it's time to improve the world. How do you do it? Start a new charity? Donate to existing ones? Commission massive libraries and other centers of learning? Buy food for homeless cats and scatter it throughout dark alleys? Keep it around two million dollars a year.

Skip long story - You are really rich and decide to do good things with your money. What do you do? Two million dollar a year budget!

I'd donate to homeless shelters in my city, commission construction of a half way house for recovering homeless addicts that helps with job placement, and I'd set up a scholarship fund for 10 graduates per year of said rehabilitation program. Any left over I would start offering scholarships to local high school graduates who wanted to attend the local university (based strictly on academics).

First, as I live in the UK and that 2 mill counts as income Id have to pay 1 million to the government as tax.

 

[Shadowfaze]

I'd buy a missle. Just to say "don't mess with me, or i WILL destroy you."

 

[Treeinthewoods]

Buying every copy of ET back in the eighties seemed so stupid to your friends and family, but you figured out that in the year 2012 ET would become so ironically cool that people happily pay hundreds of dollars for a single copy so they can talk about how bad it is.

Selling all those copies made you enough to hire a game designer who helped you launch a multi-million dollar game company. Your first major success was ET 2: Back for Blood. The game was so ironically cool for being terrible it sold a billion copies and only cost you $300 to develop over a weekend using RPG Maker. Also you had to buy pizza. Before you retire you release seventeen sequels that rocket the ET franchise into the single best selling game franchise ever (beating out Mario by a few hundred thousand). Spielberg made ET, you made him awesome.

Now you are rich beyond your wildest dreams and have retired to your life of luxury. Yet somehow, you don't feel complete. The world has provided so much for you, you now decide it's time to improve the world. How do you do it? Start a new charity? Donate to existing ones? Commission massive libraries and other centers of learning? Buy food for homeless cats and scatter it throughout dark alleys? Keep it around two million dollars a year.

Skip long story - You are really rich and decide to do good things with your money. What do you do? Two million dollar a year budget!

I'd donate to homeless shelters in my city, commission construction of a half way house for recovering homeless addicts that helps with job placement, and I'd set up a scholarship fund for 10 graduates per year of said rehabilitation program. Any left over I would start offering scholarships to local high school graduates who wanted to attend the local university (based strictly on academics).

First, as I live in the UK and that 2 mill counts as income Id have to pay 1 million to the government as tax.

Wait, what? Even if you already earned it? This is money from a savings account that you put your paychecks in, not a source of income you still have. Is UK tax that rough? Over here, donating earns you about a 10% tax credit (Donate $100, pay $10 less in taxes that year).

 

[Talshere]

Buying every copy of ET back in the eighties seemed so stupid to your friends and family, but you figured out that in the year 2012 ET would become so ironically cool that people happily pay hundreds of dollars for a single copy so they can talk about how bad it is.

Selling all those copies made you enough to hire a game designer who helped you launch a multi-million dollar game company. Your first major success was ET 2: Back for Blood. The game was so ironically cool for being terrible it sold a billion copies and only cost you $300 to develop over a weekend using RPG Maker. Also you had to buy pizza. Before you retire you release seventeen sequels that rocket the ET franchise into the single best selling game franchise ever (beating out Mario by a few hundred thousand). Spielberg made ET, you made him awesome.

Now you are rich beyond your wildest dreams and have retired to your life of luxury. Yet somehow, you don't feel complete. The world has provided so much for you, you now decide it's time to improve the world. How do you do it? Start a new charity? Donate to existing ones? Commission massive libraries and other centers of learning? Buy food for homeless cats and scatter it throughout dark alleys? Keep it around two million dollars a year.

Skip long story - You are really rich and decide to do good things with your money. What do you do? Two million dollar a year budget!

I'd donate to homeless shelters in my city, commission construction of a half way house for recovering homeless addicts that helps with job placement, and I'd set up a scholarship fund for 10 graduates per year of said rehabilitation program. Any left over I would start offering scholarships to local high school graduates who wanted to attend the local university (based strictly on academics).

First, as I live in the UK and that 2 mill counts as income Id have to pay 1 million to the government as tax.

Wait, what? Even if you already earned it? This is money from a savings account that you put your paychecks in, not a source of income you still have. Is UK tax that rough? Over here, donating earns you about a 10% tax credit (Donate $100, pay $10 less in taxes that year).

Over here, donating earns you nothing. Its your income to do with as you please but the government always gets its due. Im not sure exactly how the rules work on interest based earnings from money sat in an account but Im still pretty sure the government gets to skim some of it if your over a certain amount.