You get to keep only enough to maintain a very modest lifestyle in a low-cost-of-living area, the rest of it has to go towards improving the world in some way.

Edit: Given the previous rules that you must maintain a very modest lifestyle in a low-cost-of-living area, would you rather choose to opt out and not have the money at all?

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    Establish non profit in country that is not part of international patent sytem and move there.
    Invest in university(ies) in that country and start close cooperation.
    Start making hardware / manufacturing device specifications and publish them as opensource.
    Establish something like github but for hardware + manufacturing. Establish open factory / manufacturing project.
    Publish free books about building houses / vehicles / electronics / manufacturing.
    Invest in alternative opensource software to Autodesk / Solidworks / Catia.
    Start open medicine project that shows how medicines are producded from herbs and plants.

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    Develop High yield and sophisticated lab controlled food production facilities that could run all year without fear of climate instability to rev the throttle on sustainable long term food production.

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    You get to keep only enough to maintain a very modest lifestyle in a low-cost-of-living area

    Am I allowed to still be employed to earn an income for my own lifestyle?

    Anyhow, probably fund lab-grown egg and meat (lab grown dairy already exists) and deal with the red tape and political obstacles it is facing.

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    I would fund community-led projects that align with my values such as:

    • mutual aid collectives
    • community-run gardens, libraries, and clinics
    • labor and tenant unions / cooperatives
    • intentional communities
    • food pantries / soup kitchens
    • parks and other 3rd spaces
    • art collectives
    • sustainability initiatives (rooftop solar, heat pumps, microgrids, rewilding, permaculture / indigenous farming practices, etc.)
    • public multimodal transportation infrastructure

    My focus would be on empowering people to help each other even after the money runs out.

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    Find out the best application of money to buy companies and turn them into worker coops.

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    I would start a non profit foundation that develops and maintains cost effective, autonomous boats to clean up the great garbage patch.

    I am envisioning something like a small fleet of autonomous boats that dock with large motherships dump their cargo of garbage and head out again The motherships can also work with manned crafts that can handle heavier e

    The motherships should be nuclear powered, have water treatment plant so the garbage can be dryed and brought to land .

  • Thought about this before. I’d build out the high-speed internet structure to encompass all the populated parts of the world (omitting coverage across large swaths of open sea) and provide free, no-questions-asked WiFi internet service to absolutely everyone.

    (Yes, a lot of places don’t have devices, but parallel programs already exist to get people enabled on cheap devices)

    The obstruction would be legal battles with current stakeholders that have regional monopolies and are very addicted to making odious profit. (Looking at you, Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, etc.)

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    One million dollars per assassin until one of them eventually gets through to Trump, then Vance, than Musk, Than the Republican Supreme Court. After that, a 50,000 dollar bounty on any sitting member of Trump’s Cabinet and any sitting member of the GOP.

    Even if it takes every penny to finish that list and I end up right back where I started. I’ll still consider it money well spent.

    Anything less than a full Nuremberg level cleanse of nazi’s in America is just not going to be sufficient.

    Kill them all.

    And I’m not being even the least bit facetious.