What would you do with $500,000,000?

Disappear and live a very quiet, stress free life.

Take a nap

I'll tell you what I would do man, 2 chicks at the same time man.

Honestly I would do the math on how much I would need to live very comfortably the rest of my life and then use it for philanthropy

Probably donate to Wikipedia and subscribe to WinRAR.

Take the rest of the week off.

probably would pay off my entire family’s debt and donate like 100m and live stress free

Invest $50 mil, take $50 mil and put it in a savings account, then pay off all family debts (my and my fiancée's families) and give them $1 mil each for direct related family members. From there, I'd stick the remaining in another savings account and let it accrue interest, then live off the interest, and never work again.

take care of abused women and children. I lived it being broke and that would be the first thing I would do

Buy myself property, invest, and donate some to animal shelters. 

I would set up a variety of trusts ans organizations to provide free school meals to as many children as I could cover. Then I would slowly build a network of secur3 housing to make available to spouses and children trying to escape domestic violence. The idea is that the money made off this money in stable investments would fund these programs indefinitely.

Take my autistic son and develop a sanctuary for him and other special needs kids. A place where they can feel supported and free to express themselves. All the sensory toys they could imagine.

Run for President. The current occupant of the White house has set the bar so low that even *I* would be better.

Invest some Give to friends and family Build high quality aged care facilities for people in our rural community to be age with dignity and support in the place they grew up and where their family live.

Follow in Tom Anderson’s footsteps and drop off the face of the planet

I’d get guac *and* queso at Chipotle!

Buy a capybara

Purchase a home in Melbourne, AUS, one in Kyoto. Keep my home in the US. Found a nonprofit philanthropy group and get office space in all three countries. Work on that for the rest of forever. I'd work 30 hours a week tops. And uh yeah you use the capital to make income using various investment vehicles, and use that money to fund philanthropic stuff. Hire a bunch of brilliant people to do good things for the world and pay them well to do it. Reserve like 20 mil for myself so I can live a lavish lifestyle on the interest.

i’d pay the meal accounts for my local school k-12 then see if i could find a way to set up a trust to pay for breakfast/lunch for all the students. i’d buy up some single family homes and start a program where single moms or struggling family’s could live for a couple years while they got on their feet (i would also try to provide job training, child care, financial literacy to these families), buy public land to be turned into parks, donate to or open a public library, try and find a way to establish an after school and/or summer program for school age kids. and most importantly find someone i can trust to help me achieve all this so i can sit back and relax.

I would make sure that the nearest 20 schools that are nearest to me would make sure all kids had free lunches year round for at least the next 50 years. I was on reduced lunches and still couldn’t afford it at times. I wouldn’t want a kid anywhere near me have to experience a food tray get taken out of his hand like I did.

I'd definitely give a chunk of it to Listnook so they can hire a new moderator whose job is specifically to delete posts that have already been made a billion times before they cross my feed.

Two chicks at the same time dude

Get some Teeth 🦷

Keep it quiet and give more to charities I already give to. And maybe a few more.

New socks every f****** day.

ctrl + f two chicks at the same time

If I really get it, I will give half of it to you just for bringing up this topic. Wish me luck.

Set aside $75 million to make a movie. And, of course, I'd need to spend at least that for my marketing budget. After I've thrown all that money into a black hole I'd probably just build a homestead somewhere and live off the interest of what's left. But, yeah, it would be cool to make a real movie.

Invest 495,000,000 in education, combating famine and extreme hunger by building infrastructure in impoverished areas, and scientific research and development of technologies which promote those causes. Then I would live a very comfortable life on the remaining million dollars. There is really no reason for anyone to be that wealthy aside from greed. People that selfishly hoard that much wealth deserve a special place in hell.

Hang out and be a dude

Land

Buy a house for me, my family a friends, do a ton of world travel and then also help the charities that I support

Give half to my parents and half to my siblings. Then continue my life. I don’t want that shade.

buy a house to finally be a homeowner like a was as a kid before we lost the house.

Buy a ranch with a shit ton of cows and let them eat and shit and moo anytime they want. Then pet them and snuggle with them occasionally

I'll tell you what I'd do, man: Two chicks at the same time, man.

You know what I would do if I had $500,000,000? I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities...

Take a nap

Take a nap in the middle of the day.

Vanish without a trace. But I’ll send my mom letters. She worries

Everything. And nothing.

Coke and hookers. Donate the rest.

I would be pretty relaxed about everything. Also two chicks at the same time.

Nothing. Absolutely nothing and I would be so happy.

Buy a very nice house, hire staff to take care of every aspect of my life, and travel. Then travel more. There's no point in investing if I have that type of money, so I will donate large amounts to the the charities I already donate to now.

Let my parents retire, they’ve done enough.

Pay bills and renovate my house

Two chicks at the same time.

Jesus, I'd give at least half of it away. $250,000,000 is still more than I could ever use in 10 lifetimes.

I would buy my father’s business so that he could retire, then immediately sell to someone else so my BIL can’t ruin it :)

I could live off $2 million for the rest of my life. I’d set up a foundation to benefit charities and scholarships for the rest.

Invest it in bonds. You can gain an extra $108,000,000 in just 5 years. Tax free.

1000 chicks at the same time

I'd make an anime studio to produce high quality anime based on books I like.

I would give most of it away to family and friends and charity, id only keep about $2-4 million. I dont want to corrupt myself and my purpose with too much money

save so many animals

Fill up the tank of my suv

Hire an investment firm, let my husband retire, build or buy a compound for my family, and bless my community. With an emphasis on children and underprivileged minority groups. My new job would be local philanthropist. I would use the investment firm to help me create education grants, affordable housing projects, and free medical programs for young children to get the treatment they need. I like the idea of tiny house communities for the elderly and young adults aging out of foster care and orphanages. But I would house the groups together. I think both groups have a lot to offer each other. As for education grants. I want to sponsor extracurricular activities and after school programs. I would work with local PTAs to get to the real needs of the students. If there's room in the budget, I would love to throw a handful of money annually to woman's health. Mental health, reproductive health, and victims of abuse. There's already a lot of great groups in my area. I would give money to them. I've already talked about this with my husband. We dream about what we'd do if we won the l******. Tho we only buy tickets if its near a billion, these days. But this is a combination of what we both want to do.

Two chicks at the same time

Buy some spaghetti

Id buy some chinese food and not stress about the cost of a couple extra wontons or whatever Buy some gas Fix my bike My life doesnt change much. Its just less stressful

a series of investments in my local community to improve quality of life, walkability, bike access, School and medical quality and Parks and recreation. I would turn everything within in 15 miles of my downtown into the nicest version of itself it could be, including multiple sport venues with programs for youth and adults and c**** or free equipment. 

I’d make a movie adaptation of Call of Duty Black Ops 1

Racehorse. But be really Ethical. Try to breed back to 1900 standards. Have a buy back policy and retirement farms. I need more money

Whatever I want

Hire a financial advisor, find and or build my dream house, and whatever the hell I want. First on the "whatever the hell I want" list would be travel to visit friends both in and out of the country.

Buy a house in Big Sky, build a recording studio in it, spend the rest of my life bouncing between skiing and music

Get financial advice to try investing. Then about 50k for myself

Whatever the F I want lol

Go back to sleep for an extra hour.

Bet it all on black

retire

Buy a gold box

Retire.

I won't continue making bad financial decisions

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Let's keep asking the same question twice a week and then wonder why this sub is worthless these days.

Whatever I wanted.

Give a dollar away so I have $499,999,999.

Go to war with Iran for a week.

First thing is change my cell number

move out of our toxic family house and live my own life with my girlfriend where it's just the two of us

I mean, sure I would please myself with different kind treats and secure my life economically with every kind of comfort but without exaggerations however it would be enough for that a really small part of that number, I would donate majority of those money to medical research and structures.

Help my family and trip abroad

Take a hammer to my phone and live life.

Probably just look at it

Give away all but $100m

What wouldn't I do?

Whatever the f*** I wanted for the rest of my life and for the lives of however many kids I could adopt

Pay off debt.. EV.. Metal roof.. Solar batteries.. Kids debt.. Housing kids.. Find out if well is do-able here and do that. Solar for anyone in my old neighborhood who wants it.. Chill.

Double it, throw it all on black.

Eat a Klondike bar.

Payoff all debts, buy a ranch in the mountains, and put the rest in the hands of a capable and trustworthy financial planner. Then quietly live off the interest. Maybe get involved in local politics or give back to the community in some way to fill my time.

The other night I dreamed that I did some small ethical thing and someone gave me a check for $250 million. I realized that all the things that I need, paying off all my debt, being able to put my kids through college, would only be a very tiny fraction of it. And then I started thinking about how everybody I knew was about to be better off… And then I woke up. It was so real and I was so sad that even looking at this question makes me feel bummed out.

All into VT

Buy a big house on the side of a mountain and become a local cryptid.

Still amazes me there’s people who have this and choose to do everything but enjoy it

Travel the world. I’ve always wanted to visit the terrace where Michael Jackson’s final resting place is I’d even go to King of Popcorn I’d fly there near his birthday because there’s loads of fans, music, gifts for him. It’s practically a party.

Invest in the SpaceX ipo.

Take care of most vulnerable people around me. Like others took care of me when I was vulnerable. 

Help all the poor people i know like me. Set my family up for their lives. Then go fishing

I’d have lunch

Give $2 million to 100ish friends & family and still have plenty to live on and invest.

Leave CA

Your mother

Anything I wanted. And solve as many of the world’s problems as I could.

See if I can bribe all the famous preachers and catch them being shitty in compromising positions

Buy Trump a one way ride to Mars