What would you do with 7 Billion dollars?

[Cosmosis]

Put the money in a bank in The Bahamas.

Pay bills.

When I want to buy something neat, I'll just buy it.

And then I'll throw some money at charity when I feel bad about having money and not giving any to charity.

Rinse and repeat for a pretty significant span of time.

If I die, my successors will get to enjoy the content feeling that comes with having an obscene amount of money, without having obscene desires. We're boring people.

 

[Scars Unseen]

To start, I'd go to Nevada and get a million dollar... wait. I'm not sure if we're allowed to discuss that sort of thing here.

I'd get some ice cream.

 

[No social life]

1. I would start a company that has connections to everything, ensuring a stable source of income,
2. Start a space division within my company and sink lots of money into F.T.L travel and artificial gravity research
3. Once F.T.L has been discovered, I'm building my own fleet with the profit from my company.
4. Take over the world and establish a empire.
5. Wing it.

 

[Death Carr]

Buy my entire town then pay everyone to wander around dressed as zombies.
or, buy my entire town then leave it as a ghost town just for shits and giggles.

Captcha: smoking guns
I believe that is relevant to my first option

 

[Scarim Coral]

After I gave some to my family and relative, donating to charities and spending stuff for myself (new flat, tv, games etc), I will use most of it to set up a comicbook company with my best friend (he can draw comic related stuff) starring our own superheroes. It probably be a webcomic at first since I can easily see it fail if we try to see it in physical comicbook form.

 

[Generalissimo]

simples. buy out the goverment and make the UK a utilitarian socialist paradise.

failing that, make london a city state.

 

[Vausch]

Hire Takashi Miike to work with Katsuhiro Otomo to make a GOOD live action Akira trilogy, with an American production team for the special effects but done purely in Japanese.

6.2 billion to go...

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Ooooh, this will be hilarious fun:

1.) Pay off college loans

2.) Buy a few hundred acre stretch of land and build a large mansion of my design on it.

3.) Buy a couple new cars.

4.) Buy BioWare from EA, and then make it so that nothing else is done to Mass Effect 3, meaning I would make it so that no new ending or change to the story would be made.

5.) Then have BioWare start production on a Dragon Age: Origins remake/remastered version where the conversations are converted to the dialogue wheel style, change the battle system to one like the DA2 system where I have control over every action including the basic attack. Change the leveling and ability/power system to that of the DA2 style. Get voice actors to give voice to each of the different types of player Grey Wardens. If people don't like what I'm doing with the game, too bad, they can go play their old broken copies.

6.) See what BioWare had in-store for DA3, if it isn't similar to the style of DA2, I'll change it so it is.

7.) Send a cupcake to each proclaimed member of the "Retake Mass Effect" movement, though each cupcake would be filled with laxatives.

8.) Lay back in my reclining office chair, petting my cat that's in my lap, while laughing maniacally.

 

[likalaruku]

Option A: Sit on it.

1)Put it into several banks, including foreign ones.
2)Deny I have the money to anyone who asks.
3)Buy a book, a CD, a DVD, & a game every month, with increases my broke-ass purchases 400%, as 4)I usually only get that shit on holidays because all my money goes into bills.
5)Spend the rest of my life paranoid that someone will discover I'm rich & try to kill me for my money.
6)Avoid binge spending, because statistically when poor people become rich, they burn through the money like fire on a carosine soaked forest & end up poorer than ever before.
7)Spend like crazy when I'm old, including on the inevitable medications 7 hospitalizations.
8)Leave every cent of my money to the ASPCA when I die.


Option B: Burn through it as quickly as possible & abuse the power that comes with money.

1)Buy DC from Warner Brothers. Make Poison Ivy, Wonder Woman, The Joker, & The Riddler officially gay, get last word on all retcons.
2)Buy Marvel from Disney. Make everyone involved with the X-men go back to the way they looked in the early 90s, retcon Mr. Sinister's sex change, make Gambit bisexual to increase female readership (you'd better believe that would work). & umm...make Emma Frost a redhead. You can never have enough hot redhaired chicks.
3)Pay off Tokyopop's bankruptsy, make them translate whatever I want.
4)Buy everything on my Amazon wish list, which is about 20 pages long.
5)Bribe Hollywood to cockblock nerdrage-enducing loose adaptations & remakes.
6)Buy Sallie Mae & shut them down.
7) Commission those Slayers & Saiyuki RPG games I've always wanted, plus Baldur's Gate 3.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Hire Takashi Miike to work with Katsuhiro Otomo to make a GOOD live action Akira trilogy, with an American production team for the special effects but done purely in Japanese.

6.2 billion to go...

Really, that would cost 800 million? That would be the most expensive production in history I would think, over 266 million per movie in the trilogy. I'm guessing you aren't planning on making a profit from it? Since it is all in Japanese, you are looking at a very small market for the movie.

I know the whole money thing is hypothetical and all, but that amount of money for such a production, is just way out there.

 

[Auron225]

Donate at least 6,990,000,000 of it to charity. Use the rest to live off and kick-start my own charity.

No Im not kidding.

 

[Epicspoon]

build a giant house out of bricks of ten dollar bills in a poor neighborhood. hire a security team to make sure NOBODY gets near it. burn it down in front of homeless people.

am I sufficiently evil yet?

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

First I would quit my job. Then I would buy a nice big house, big enough for me, my girlfriend and a few close friends to live in but still have privacy. Then I would get some completely overkill gaming PC's, some massive HDTV's and some consoles for a nice big gaming room for me, my girlfriend and friends to share. Then I would just spend the rest wisely and use it to live an easy life.

Thank you friend for all your moneys.

 

[madster11]

5 billion in a few banks with good interest rates.
1 billion on starting multiple companies
1 billion on a program to build a couple shuttles capable of landing on the moon. Proceed to charge billionaires a couple hundred million to be among the few people to have ever walked on another terrestrial body. Make the money back fast and proceed to make profits. Bring moon rocks back for sale to make even more money.
Set sights on mars.

 

[kommando367]

Distribute 2 million of it among family. Give 6 billion to charities. Maybe open up my own game company with the rest.

 

[Biosophilogical]

Buy a huge block of land, build a bunch of beautiful houses, bring all of my friends there to live, invest a billion-ish into various banks so that we can live off the interest. Use a billion or so to further research in renewable energy and adaptive construction technologies (so you can have a house that can change). Once the research is completed, I'd re-do all the houses to be self-sustaining (energy wise), use some of my extra land to have self-managed farm lands, maybe a few greenhouses, until I get to a point where my friends, family and myself can live comfortably for the rest of our lives without having a detrimental impact on the rest of society/the planet/our neighbours.

If I have enough money left over, I might try and fund some research into reversing/halting cell-decay due to age, maybe throw some money at cancer research. That way, my friends, family and myself could live forever away from most of the bullshit the world goes through (and then, with extended life, I could build my fortune until I was able to create a utopian society where all means of production are entirely self-sustainable so that humanity could grow peacefully without the need for the resources of other countries, and without the risk of destroying the planet as they do so.

 

[OneCatch]

Donate at least 6,990,000,000 of it to charity. Use the rest to live off and kick-start my own charity.

No Im not kidding.

build a giant house out of bricks of ten dollar bills in a poor neighborhood. hire a security team to make sure NOBODY gets near it. burn it down in from of homeless people.

am I sufficiently evil yet?

Wow, talk about contrast!

As for me.
Buy/make loads of nukes.
Hide them in major cities/military bases/industrial centres, or put them in space.
(For the light-side character bonus, pretend to do the above, but don't, just falsify credible evidence)
Blackmail governments to do what I tell them to.
World Peace!

... For THE GREATER GOOD

 

[Schuldrich]

Go see Book of Mormon on Broadway. With that kind of money sold out tickets won't mean much. I'll find a way.

7 billion is a little beyond the scope of my imagination so my goals are small. In the end I would continue my life as it is just with the money to go where I want when I want.

 

[freakymojo]

invest every dime into research towards my immortality!!
on a more serious note, maybe get a top-end computor and then give the rest of it into anti cancer funds.

 

[Hristo Petrov]

I'll pay my bar tab