what would you do if you had 8 billion dollars....

[Kaligraphic]

Easy, I'd open three savings accounts with 2 billion dollars a piece in them.

That's actually a pretty bad idea - if anything happens you wouldn't get anywhere near those 6 mil back. FDIC only insures up to (iirc) $100k per depositor. You'd want to spread out probably $70k per bank, and hire an accountant to keep track of all of your accounts.


Personally, I'd suggest learning the real estate market. After all, 8 billion covers a lot of mistakes.

[Icarus]

. FDIC only insures up to (iirc) $100k per depositor. You'd want to spread out probably $70k per bank, and hire an accountant to keep track of all of your accounts.

You're right, and at 70K per account, you'd need an accountant or three.

*checks* Yeah, or three. Each $6B at $70K per account would yeild more than 74 thousand accounts.

[Puritan]

That's actually a pretty bad idea - if anything happens you wouldn't get anywhere near those 6 mil back. ...Personally, I'd suggest learning the real estate market. After all, 8 billion covers a lot of mistakes.

While the real estate market is a great thing, I think that investing the money with a good Swiss bank (or possibly several Swiss banks) would probably be just as reliable. Their banking system is considered to be the most stable in the world, and with ~$3 trillion in investments, it's unlikely that the entire banking system would collapse for some reason.

[Mangafanatic]

That's actually a pretty bad idea - if anything happens you wouldn't get anywhere near those 6 mil back. FDIC only insures up to (iirc) $100k per depositor. You'd want to spread out probably $70k per bank, and hire an accountant to keep track of all of your accounts.


Personally, I'd suggest learning the real estate market. After all, 8 billion covers a lot of mistakes.

Yeah,I thought about the FDIC thing, but, since this is hypothetical money. . . I'm not really that worried about loosing it.

[Kaligraphic]

You could try your hand at venture capitalism...

If you're not worried about losing money...

[mitsuki lover]

Most humans are:1)Selfish and 2)Selfish and 3)Selfish.

[Bobtheduck]

As proof that people change their minds, I sorta dropped my "living off 10%" thing.. Now, without anything else, i'd use a billion for 20 projects... Some movie, some game. A 50 million dollar game would be bigger than a Final Fantasy project, or more recent things like halo (I think FF8 was 20 mil, and Halo 2 was 40 mil...) I'd so totally do that... 5 games and 15 movies... Maybe even fewer than that, and more money for each project.

I could see using a billion to sponsor students... Film, writing, game art, game programming... Get Christians in the arts and media.

I'd build a better orphanage for Ganta, and handpicked people to help (one by one, help a person out of their mess, not just distributing socialist style, which doesn't actually help anyone...)with a billion.

I'd use a billion to support all of my missionary friends... Throw in some usefull, albeit unnecissary things, too (3?" HDTV and PS3 for all! I mean, come on, it'd be usefull and it'd represent! hahaha)

A billion to create a documentary group...

A billion to create a Christian media school... Video Game development and art, film, recording, Television, stage... It'd be a Christian version of Full Sail. Non-profit, too.

A billion to create a mirror school in Japan... I would want to see Japanese christians in Media in Japan...

The last billion would be for me, I guess... I'd get a decent house in Japan (houses are hard to come by in Japan, from what I hear, and they're usually very small and expensive) I'd get a scion XB and... Some truck... I don't care, really, I'd hopefully have a wife to decide what truck... I'd get my dream collection of games (NES, SNES, PS1, PS2, Gameboy, GBA, PSP, DS, PS3, Wii... Maybe a few on Genesis, and a Neo Geo arcade system with all the KoF games and some other games just for when friends come over... Maybe even a Naomi, if I can find any good games for it...) and my dream collection of movies, and a hotel... It'd be so that there'd be people there all the time, but it would be my house... Always open to friends, but cheap rooms for rent for anyone who wanted to, as well... Friends can stay for long periods, and I could host missionaries and pastors and whatever else, too... It'd have a restaurant (no more expensive, say, than dennies, since I'd be funding it with my billion dollars) a gym, and an arcade... DDR, Neo Geo, and some new novelty Japanese Arcade machines... And a small theater! Dude... It'd be so awesome...

[Sammy Boy]

It's hard to say what I would do with so much money.

I only need enough to buy a place to live in, a decent car to get around, and that's kind of it.

Maybe I'd use the rest to sponsor children through World Vision.

The real test would be what I would _really_ do if I _really_ had that much money...

[Nightshade X]

Hmm... a toughie...

I guess I could buy a PS3... then scrape whatever's left together to pay for gas.

J/K

Really, though. I'm not sure what I'd do with all that cash. I honestly hope I never get my hands on that kind of money.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

8 billion? That's quite a bit. I would by a house, car, all the good books in the world, stuff for family and friends, put some in the bank and give a good amount of it to the less fortunate.

[mitsuki lover]

The less fortunate being the rest of us.