How I'd Spend $100 Billion
Submitted by lukeprog on Sat, 08/21/2004 - 08:42
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- $60 billion - taxes
- $15 billion - invest as safely as possible
- $10 billion - tithe
- $5 billion - donations to Christian evangelism/ministry organizations
- $3 billion - start a top-rate software development organization to develop operating systems, office software, graphic design software, media players, and other tools, over which I would have complete creative control, and which would be distributed to the public at very low prices
- $2 billion - buy a relatively tiny piece of land from a western European nation and hire people to set it up as my own, legitimate nation (of which I am king, and one of fewer than 100 inhabitants). I would still mostly live in the US until I 'retired'
- $1 billion - donations to medical research organizations
- $1 billion - fund a trilogy of films based on Tim Zahn's Star Wars 'Thrawn' trilogy, written by myself, Darabont, and others, directed by Steven Speilberg, starring several original-Star-Wars-trilogy actors and having no input from Lucas
- That leaves $3 billion remaining at this point.
- $500 million - fund the restoration of several hundred old (pre-1930s) films that may otherwise be lost
- $300 million - donations to computer technology research organizations
- $300 million - fund a massive and beautiful live-action 'arabian nights'-esque movie written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio, directed by Terry Gilliam
- $300 million - fund a filmic 'Legend of Zelda' adaptation written/directed by Peter Jackson with much creative input from myself
- $200 million - fund a filmic adaptation of Batman: Knightfall via everyone working on Batman Begins
- $200 million - fund a filmic adaptation of the video game 'Homeworld'
- $150 million - fund the production of any big-budget script Charlie Kaufman wants to write.
- $50 million - purchase 10 pretty damn sweet houses around the world and fill them with everything I want (not many million-dollar art pieces, obviously)
- That leaves $1 billion remaining at this point.
- $10 million - build a recording studio and hire professional musicians, orchestra, music engineers, etc. to help me write and record the 5-or-so albums I've had in my head but want to put on CD
- $5 million - extravagently travel the world (with my then-wife, and not all at once, of course)
- $2 million - kickass wedding and honeymoon with 'some nice gal' :-)
- $500,000 - personal makeover: help with clothes, hair, face, skin, etc. - also, exercise equipment and professional trainer
- And, the remaining money (plus $15 billion in stocks!!!!) would be used to live out the rest of my utopian days.
Suggestions welcome - I'll fill out the section under '$1 billion remaining' as I think of things/things are suggestions.