If You Had All the Money In the World...

[maui_mallard]

If you had all the money in the World...

What would you buy...or

What would you do with the money?

I'll start off...

I would buy a house in California and just spend the rest of my life surfing, and writing posts on Daniweb:)

[John A]

If you had all the money in the world, how would you expect to find a market in which you could buy a house?

[bobbyraw]

according to this you would own the world if you had all the money in the world,,,but i know what mallard is getting at......you mean rich like warren buffet or the sheik in Saudi. then definitely pay for a lot of the kids who are suffer from hunger and malnutrition, then contribute to the cure for breast cancer, build houses for all my family & friend and get then any thing they want, i would give dani all the money she would ever need to keep this going,,,,

[Ancient Dragon]

If I had all the money in the world -- I'd give it away to everyone that wants it. But I'd have to be very careful about that too because it could cause a surge in the inflation rate. If I gave everyone a million dollors (pounds, or whatever currency you like) then it might cost a thousand dollars for a gallon of gas or an apple. If I invested it in the stock market then the price of stocks would skyrocket. The only way to avoid high world-wide inflation rates with that much money is to hide it under my mattress and not spend any of it. In that case what good would it be ?

[Sturm]

I would destroy the economy and take over the world.

[Aia]

If I'd have all the money in the world, money would be called something else.

[jwenting]

yah, if one person had all the money in the world the economy would no longer be money based and therefore that money would have no value over the intrinsic value of its base materials.

So the paper notes would make novelty toilet paper, the coins would be melted down into metal bars and exchanged for goods more useful to me.

[jasimp]

Instead of being incredibly literal I think I will answer the way he intended the question. If I was obscenely rich I would find the best landscape in Maine (heart-stopping sunsets, mountains in the background with an old country road no one uses) and have my dream house built. Two floors, first floor has everything I need except for what is on the second, Second floor is a large library with a computer in the middle. I would buy the best computer I could find and run the fastest internet around out to my house. I would have one room facing the mountains with a huge window that I could look out of. I would have a modest TV (30 in) and your average cable package. No phone because I hate talking to people that way. I would listen to 100.3 WKIT all the time while I cooked and surfed the web. I would read and write for most of the day and sleep only when required.

[zandiago]

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread103120.html

[Serunson]

he-he
Well just to carry on this one, I would buy a state in America or buy a county in England, name it whatever i like, and drive around it with my fleet of super-cars.

[Aia]

he-he Well just to carry on this one, I would buy a state in America or buy a county in England, name it whatever i like, and drive around it with my fleet of super-cars.

Always thinking so small. ;)
And in any case, what part do you not understand that your bill notes would be good as toilet paper?

[ZZucker]

If I had all the money in the world, I would have to hire a huge private army (something like Blackwater) right away to protect it.

Too many headaches! I would be happier without it. You couldn't even give it away quickly, it would create one giant riot.

I guess the whole thread is a rather unintelligent question.

[jasimp]

Not unintelligent at all. You can tell a lot from a person by asking them this question and analyzing their response.

If I had all the money in the world, I would have to hire a huge private army (something like Blackwater) right away to protect it

Not if you tried to keep it a secret.

[ZZucker]

Think! If you wanted to keep it a secret, you couldn't use it!

[jasimp]

If you spent normal amounts of money each year then you could keep it a secret.

[maui_mallard]

Ok
so maybe the question wasn't used in the right way. What I meant was if you a lot of money, what would you do with it...

I didn't think you guys would take it so literally...

[ZZucker]

If you spent normal amounts of money each year then you could keep it a secret.

Think, since nobody else has money, everybody could figure out where it is coming from.

[ZZucker]

Ok so maybe the question wasn't used in the right way. What I meant was if you a lot of money, what would you do with it...

I didn't think you guys would take it so literally...

The idea was good though! The answers so far were interesting. I would buy a ticket to heaven by giving it all to the Catholic Church.

[jasimp]

Think, since nobody else has money, everybody could figure out where it is coming from.

I was under the impression that you did not have all the money in the world. Maybe you shouldthink (your favorite word it seems) and stop being so literal. If you read my original post I said that I was using the scenario that you had billions of dollars becasue you could not have all the money in the world.

[Sgt. Pepper]

I'd make half of the US a preserve, buy a really nice RV, and a really nice computer with a wireless internet card, a really nice camera, and an old WWII M1 Grand and just travel around the preserve livin off the land and doing computer stuff at the same time