How would you spend unlimited money?

seattle prattle wrote:

Also, we want to see a place as the locals see it, not sheltered away in an exclusive resort on the bluff overlooking the town.

Well, I didn't write anything about resorts, and wealthy people in London and Paris are the "locals" too. ;)

Joking aside, I wrote the "best" hotels and restaurants and not the "most expensive" because what's the best is up to you. The same goes for all the places you go and see. If you prefer the nosebleed seats to the front row in a sporting event, that's the "best" to you. If you want to shop in the local market and cook in the kitchenette of the apartment you rent, that's the "best" to you.

And the "locals" eat out, go to sporting events and performing arts, and even visit "tourist sites." I am amazed how many places I go as a tourist are mostly visited by locals.

Al right, then. And thank you for the "best of" tips.

Waiter, a round of drinks for that hobby jogger at the next table.

X-Runner wrote:

Let’s say you were given an unlimited amount of money to spend.

Rules:

You can’t invest any of it. (Why invest if you have unlimited money anyway?)

You can buy and furnish houses to live in or stay at but not that others to live in.

You can’t give any money away or pay more than goods or services are worth.

You can pay for meals for people dining with you and pay party expenses for parties you host.

Basically all spending has to be for you.

How would you spend it?

I would buy Letsrun and shut it down. Now all the crazies have to go to parler and Alex Jones website.

I would start writing/directing/producing movies, I think. Maybe I’d take on Greg’s script, as well. It would be great fun while giving me more direction than merely indulging in hookers. I’d also get a 250-350k type house in a nice neighborhood and wrangle up a wife and kids. I’d sponsor some insane track and road racing events too I reckon, seeing as my money’s unlimited and all.

-yours trudy

(from djibouti)

Another thought - I wouldn’t mind buying an NBA team and then insisting on playing starting point guard. I can see my season stat line now:

56 games played (took some nights off)

41.0 minutes per game

1.8 points per game

1.6 rebounds per game

3.0 assists per game

With the team going 2-54 for the games that I play. That would be a dream come true.

can i buy a planet (or two)?

sdfkjbndsbvksndfklvnskdfvkj;sdfnvdfslvbn wrote:

can i buy a planet (or two)?

No but you can apparently buy an entire space launch program (ala Bezos and Elon Musk, among others.)

There was a funny April Fool's story a few years ago about how Nike had bought the rights to put the Nike swoosh on the face of the moon. Very well done.

okay how about the sun

If it were that easy, i am quite sure that all the tech billions in Seattle would have done it a long time ago and it wouldn't be such a rarity all winter.

seattle prattle wrote:

If it were that easy, i am quite sure that all the tech billions in Seattle would have done it a long time ago and it wouldn't be such a rarity all winter.

but i have unlimited money in this scenario. im not limited to billions.

sdfkjbndsbvksndfklvnskdfvkj;sdfnvdfslvbn wrote:

seattle prattle wrote:

If it were that easy, i am quite sure that all the tech billions in Seattle would have done it a long time ago and it wouldn't be such a rarity all winter.

but i have unlimited money in this scenario. im not limited to billions.

Okay.

If you do, would you finally do something about daylight savings time? There's been a lot of talk but nothing comes of it. Do us a favor, would ya?

sure why not. DST is fairly annoying.

sdfkjbndsbvksndfklvnskdfvkj;sdfnvdfslvbn wrote:

okay how about the sun

Okay, so i thought of this and the song popped into my head, Yardbirds. "For Your Love:"

"I'd give the moon if it were mine to give

For your love

I'd give the stars and the sun for I live

For your love"

Then it hit me. If i had unlimited funds, i'd open a smokin' hot music club right here in town and put up the best bands, all the ones i like, and i like a lot of garage bands and ones that could use the exposure.

That would be exquisite.

id buy coach js

ripmeiguess wrote:

Good for you. How liberating it must be to rise above the material wants of others, and how good it must feel to be able to show others how content you are with being bored while ignoring the fun things in life. I aspire to be just like you, happy to live my life scoffing at others who enjoy things I can’t understand.

I am materialistic, I just have no particular interest in fancy houses and cars, because I have little use for them. I don't look down on people who enjoy those things. In fact I look up to them, because they're able to enjoy life on a broader scale. It's just not for me.

wealth doesn't define me wrote:

That's interesting.

What type of work would that be in creative causes of interest? Just curious.

I have no interest in houses/cars, the usual BS either, btw.

I would take the things that interest me and try to make saleable products around them. For example, something along the lines of founding a company or institute to study and promote exercise science, and become a professional trainer. Or fund clinical trials for a stem cell treatment for orthopedic injuries. Or make videos and documentaries about things that interest me.

There's this Twilight Zone episode that works exactly like the premise of this thread, even more so. A small time thug who has had a real rough life gets shot after a robbery gone bad, He awakens in this really swanky place in a luzury suite and he is kind of confined there but he can have anything he wants. So he requests a slew of hot women and the greatest food, the

"best" suits, you name it. He goes to the casino and every time and every game he wins. He is beside himself. He has everything he could want.

But of course, being the twilight zone, things aren't that simple.

He grows bored. He asks his keeper if he can visit his friends. No. Can he rob a bank? Okay but only if you know if it will work out or not - no fun knowing, so decides not to. There is essentially nothing he can't have, but he knows the outcome before it ever happens, and he can't leave.

Assuming he is in heaven, he asks to review the ledger of his life to see how he deserves this, but finds only despicable acts, and forgets it.

When he can't stand it any longer, he asks his keeper if he can leave heaven for a little bit to see that other place, in that he is clearly going out of his mind. But the keeper only bursts into laughter and says, this isn't heaven, on the contrary, this is the other place. The thug grabs the doorknob desperately, but of course, cannot escape.

The episode is called " A Nice Place to Visit"

Anyway, I think that ultimately 'unlimited money" would yield the same undesirable outcome. Money has value only insofar as it is limited and you give up something (some of your finite supply of money) in return for something that you would not otherwise be able to have or experience. But if it costs you essentially nothing (because you have an unlimited supply), how much are you going to appreciate what it brings? ANd even if you do at first, how long is that going to last?

I don't know. I think this thing with money is trickier than you think.

X-Runner wrote:

Well, what are the material things that you wish for?

Keep in mind there is a process to this and you are limited by time. It’s not like a nod and a blink and everything appears before you.

For every car you buy you have to go out and make the transaction.

Any gadget or clothes had to be shopped for and stored by you.

You need to prioritize your wishes and plan how to obtain them.

The first thing you get, the second thing you get, etc.

I've actually thought a lot about this over the weekend.

Many of the things I'd want to buy - crypto, land, etc, lose their value once you have unlimited money. I'd still buy a ton of crypto, but more so because I believe in it as the future than as an investment at that point.

I'd commission a bunch of anime artists/directors/voice actors to adapt Pynchon's Novels and Borges' short stories into anime. I'd want to do ~something~ for the environment, but creating 'parks' is useless, maybe I'd buy land and make sure that it wasn't used for oil or turned into housing.

Sure, when price is no object, things lose their value since you’re not giving anything up.

But you are still limited by time and space.

It takes time to get things, so you have to prioritize what you get first and then next and so on.

And since you can only be at one place at a time, you are limited by you’re immediate space as to what you have at your immediate disposal.

With that in mind, what do you value to have first and more immediate?

Then progress as to what happens next.